Articles in the ‘Featured Photo’ Category

Staff Gallery 2011

We looked through thousands of pictures from this summer to come up with this gallery of our 2011 field staff in action. From canyon floor, to mountain top, from ice-cold lakes to parched reservation land, they provided memorable, meaningful, and above all, fun, experiences for our participants. We miss every individual, and wish we could …

Fall Photo Comp 2011

The DHE Photo Competition Winner for 2011 was announced today on Facebook. Liana Ray wins a $50 iTunes gift card and a box of Deer Hill goodies for her beautiful, intimate and unusual picture of bighorn sheep on the Green River, Utah. Runners-up Josh Espy and Mollye Zahler win Deer Hill goodies to remind them …

In Grand Gulch

“Down in the canyon I grew a little, understood a little more, perceived even more, and in doing split the carapace of time and place I commonly wear. Split it, wriggled out of it, left it there, a stiff and empty shell to be blown away by a canyon wind. The new skin was extra …

Gallery: Deer Hill Details

In the last gallery post, we gathered together some of our favorite landscape photographs taken on Deer Hill adventure summer camp programs. This time, we thought we would “zoom in” a little, and focus on some of the smaller things we notice as we travel through the wilderness areas of the Southwest and Costa Rica, …

Deer Hill landscapes

From desert mesas to mountains, from majestic red rock canyons to gushing mountain streams, and from expansive sheep ranches on the Navajo Nation to the ancient pueblos of Hopi and Zuni, here are just a few of the landscapes you can experience on a Deer Hill program.

Featured Photo: Fun Service

Teen Community Service: Canyon Country 2010 in the process of building a shade arbor at a sustainable ranch in Canyon de Chelly National Monument. Photo by the lovely Genevieve Uhl, Deer Hill leader. Top 3 reasons we love this picture: 1. It’s fun Community service has been part of Deer Hill’s teen adventure camps for …

Featured Photo: Green River rapid!

In this shot from our 2010 Southwest Journey adventure summer camp, Evan and Edi hit the first wave in Joe Hutch Canyon rapid in their inflatable kayak. Probably the biggest test in the 85 or so miles of Desolation and Gray Canyons of the Green River, this class 3+ rapid was formed when a huge …

Featured Photo: Mule Ear

This photo, taken during Staff Training for our summer programs, shows some of the dramatic geology surrounding the San Juan River in Southeastern Utah. To begin the day’s leadership exercise, the group of new and returning field leaders hiked over this sandstone bulge and onto the rugged Mule’s Ear “diatreme” in the background. We were …

Featured Photo: Steer Gulch

In this photo, students from the Latin School of Chicago, make their way up Steer Gulch in Southeastern Utah. Backpacking into the scenic solitude of Cedar Mesa, an area of the Colorado plateau rich in Ancestral Puebloan ruins and beautiful rock formations, is a journey back into both human history and geologic time. The group, …

Hardly Working

The photo shows Deer Hill Founder and Owner Doug Capelin, and daughter Emily, digging in the vegetable garden at Deer Hill Basecamp. With the sun shining, birds chirping, and the winter snow melting away fast, you could hardly call it working! Mia and Lily, Basecamp Golden Retrievers, are in the background. Under Beverly Capelin’s supervision, …