A few miles east of Kanab, Utah in the midst of the Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument is a small trail that is fascinating. The Toadstool might not be the name of the trail, I don’t recall for certain, but it is the name of the rock formations that are found in large numbers across the region. The trail follows a dry water course and then up a steep ridge. In the distant are high cliffs and in the plain that stretches in front of the cliffs are dozens of free standing shapes most of them looking like mushroom fed way too much Miracle Grow. Hiking along the trail led to a saline wash the bright white contrasting with the pink and red of the other stones. Just a cool place to experience a unique environment in the always interesting Southern Utah.