Water is the Master Stone Carver

I traveled to the Escalante River near Delta on a fairly warm day in late December to scout for possible places to do cold dips in the river. I had read that during run-off season the river is too high to be entered safely, but thought in the dead of Winter, the water should be fairly placid. I went to a place about twelve miles along a dirt road that mostly follows the Escalante River called Potholes Recreation Area and Campground. It is a short walk to a cliff area that gives a great view of the river below. The rock in the lower area and around the river is all a type of hard precambrian granite and over many years of erosion created by the action of water there are some amazing pools! I took a cold dip in two places after finding a way to descend the canyon cliffs to get next to the river. There was nobody else around, just me and the very alive, cold water stream.