Wednesday, April 27, 2011 - Recapture Dam Recreation Area, Blanding UT
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White Canyon, Fry Canyon UT, April 22, 2011
North or south, that's the question
Which way from here. Tomorrow my mail should be in at the Blanding postoffice and I can head out. In a few days I need to start the push to get back to New York around June 1st. The rough plan has been to head north from here to skirt around the Rockies. It's really a bit early in the season to be going through them and it now looks like it may be a bit early in the season to be going around them to the north, up along the western edge of Colorado and across southern Wyoming. The last few days here in Blanding have seen record or near record cold nights. I'm tired of cold - and spoiled by the last couple of weeks in the warmth of Arizona, Nevada and southwestern Utah. But I really don't feel like going around to the south of the rockies only to end up in the usual corridor eastbound. I'm tired of that too. I'd rather take a more northerly route.
So I will. A fresh route eastbound trumps the cold.
Night camp
Boondocked - Recapture Dam Recreation Area, Blanding UT
- Verizon cell phone and EVDO service - no signal
- Locate the Recapture Dam Recreation Area on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Hobnobbing with Brigham Young
The day following my arrival in the flourishing City of the Saints, as they called it then and still call it, I very unexpectedly met and formed the acquaintance of Brigham Young. I was riding along at the head of my flock of sheep when a stoutly built, florid faced genteel-looking man, whose hair was just turning gray, walked down to the street from one of the most pretentious residences in the place and inquired whose sheep I had charge of.