Thanks to Berta’s mail forwarding my electrolytes arrived in time for the river trip (Note the beautiful new necklace Mike recently bought me. Go ahead, enlarge it. Please look at the necklace, not at me. 😉
For a change I drove and Mike took photos, documenting our drive to town through landscape diversity.
Through ponderosa pine and aspen forest…
…over meadows…
…of wildflowers.
The subtle rise in elevation introduces fir and spruce into the mix.
Reflecting on how the cycle of forest life should be,
including a five year old lightning strike fire.
Dropping off the Kaibab Plateau into the juniper/pinyon woodlands,
offers a peak at what lies below and…
Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument
…beyond.
From a different perspective down in the valley.
Welcome to Fredonia, Arizona
Today, a hike to Cape Final is in the plan. Oh yea, and packing for the River Trip!
At least not for me. But Mike got his new to him Jeep licensed in Colorado City.
Dropping off the Kaibab Plateau with views of the Grand Staircase Escalante.
Evidence of somebody’s dream.
At breakfast this sign says it all.
It was about 94 degrees in Saint George, Utah. And I’ll have to go back in a couple weeks to get a 5th-wheel hitch mounted in the truck.
Although we watched the stormy sky all the way home we barely got a few rain drops.
Someone asked about the first image of standing dead trees in my SWF post. In 2006 lightning struck near Jacob Lake starting the Warm Fire which ultimately burned almost 60,000 acres. Now I see aspens taller than I am.