The Rocks of Vedauwoo
Off Interstate 80 in the Medicine Bow National Forest between Cheyenne and Laramie, Wyoming, the Rocks of Vedauwoo are a rounded, weathered testimony to the formation of the Rocky Mountains 60 million years ago.
The impressive stacks of rounded granite, artfully arranged and impossibly balanced was surprising to me when I first crossed the high plains and, though climbing in altitude, expected to find only flat land and open range before the Snowy Range.
When I lived in Laramie, I often drove to the site in the early morning hours and made sketches of the other worldly piles.