West of Escalante

I was very satisfied with it all, but I couldn’t help myself—I made a gigantic addition to the western edge of Circle Cliffs. After all, I couldn’t leave Lake Powell half done; without the Glen Canyon dam all the water would run out. The landforms westward to Bryce Canyon were calling—what’s another fifty terrains, anyway? The new total came to over 160 SDTS downloads. As I built westward, I discovered a dismaying thing: two of the needed downloads were not available! I ended up filling the holes with carefully sliced out pieces from the larger, lower resolution 1° DEM map. Lucky for me, both missing pieces depict lower and flatter areas; it’s hard to spot them. I also ran into a few glitches in the data which required Photoshop post-processing to fix, like the warped piece seen in the last photos.