PHOTO OF THE DAY January 3, 2005  

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Where Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah
When 1998
Photographer Len Jenshel

Hikers stop to take in the view at Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The largest national monument outside of Alaska, at 1.9 million acres (7.8 million hectares) it is approximately the size of Delaware.

(Photographed on assignment for, but not published in, “Grand Staircase-Escalante: Celebrating Canyon Country,” July 1999, National Geographic magazine)

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