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Category: Utah

05 September 2011

Our World–Planning a road trip

I love making a plan. Just not Too far in advance. Typically I can’t wrap my brain around more than about six months at a time.
01 GRCA view from Transept trail
I’m planning a road trip after my season is over mid-October at Grand Canyon. There are some places I want to revisit and lots of new landscapes to explore.
02 B&W illus two girlfriends
Plus, I’d really like to meet new people along the way also. And I’m positive I’ll cross paths with many.
03 color illus online anywhere dessert
However, I’m also hoping to meet up with fellow bloggers and some of you may be close enough to my path of adventure to make that possible.
So here’s an informal route and I’m Certainly open to recommendations. Really hope we can cross trails along the way.
04 Fall 2011 road trip map
Sorry about the funky map, I’m learning
Utah: Bryce National Park, Capital Reef National Park, Sego Canyon Petroglyphs, Dead Horse Point State Park, Canyonland National Park, Arches National Park, Moab, Hole in the Rock, Looking Glass Rocks, Wilson Arch, Church Rock, Valley of the Gods, Navajo Twin Rocks, Recapture Pocket, Hovenweep National Monument.                    Colorado: Mesa Verde National Park.          Four Corners.          Arizona: Navajo National Monument, Canyon De Chelly National Monument, Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site,  Hopi and Navajo lands, Tuba City, Flagstaff and HOME.
Did you notice just a few National Parks?
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06 August 2011

Going to town through landscape diversity

01 Gaelyn gets mail NR GRCA NP AZ by Mike (1024x768)

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.

02 View N along SR67 NR GRCA NP AZ by Mike (1024x768)

Through ponderosa pine and aspen forest…

03 Meadow along SR67 Kaibab NF AZ by Mike (1024x768)

…over meadows…

 04a Wildflowers along SR67 NR GRCA NP AZ (1024x768) 04b Penstemon (768x1024)

…of wildflowers.

05 Forest reflections in mirror & truck SR67 N Kaibab NF AZ by Mike (1024x768)

The subtle rise in elevation introduces fir and spruce into the mix.

06 2006 Warm fire reflects on hood SR67 N Kaibab NF AZ by Mike (1024x617)

Reflecting on how the cycle of forest life should be,

07 Standing dead forest in front of Vermilion Cliffs & Navajo Mt from SR67 N Kaibab NF AZ by Mike (1024x768)

including a five year old lightning strike fire.

08 Juniper-Pinyon woodlands SR89A N Kaibab NF AZ by Mike (1024x768)

Dropping off the Kaibab Plateau into the juniper/pinyon woodlands,

09 Escalante from SR89A N Kaibab NF AZ by Mike (1024x751)

offers a peak at what lies below and…

10 Valley & Escalante from SR89A N Kaibab NF AZ by Mike (1024x768)

Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument

…beyond.

11 Farmland & Escalante from SR89A N AZ by Mike (1024x761)

From a different perspective down in the valley.

12 Empty cop car SR89A N Fredonia AZ by Mike (1024x753)

Welcome to Fredonia, Arizona

Today, a hike to Cape Final is in the plan. Oh yea, and packing for the River Trip!

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09 July 2011

Great road trip but no license plate

01 Mike at LeFevre overlook SR89A AZ (735x1024)

At least not for me. But Mike got his new to him Jeep licensed in Colorado City.

02 GSES while dropping off Kaibab Plateau SR89A N AZ (1024x768)

Dropping off the Kaibab Plateau with views of the Grand Staircase Escalante.

03 Old house SR389 W AZ (1024x766)

Evidence of somebody’s dream.

04 JB's why I love chocolate sign Hurricane UT (1024x754)

At breakfast this sign says it all.

05 Stormy sky to the S from SR389 E AZ (1024x757)

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.

06 Rain falling on the Vermilion Cliffs from SR89A N Kaibab NF AZ (1024x743)

Although we watched the stormy sky all the way home we barely got a few rain drops.

07 Clearing yet stormy sky over the meadows SR67 S Kaibab NF AZ (1024x768)

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.

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