May 11, 2021 We made a day of geocaching at Capitol Reef National Park. We sought three types of caches: Traditional caches have a container with a log inside, virtual caches require the cacher to go to a location and take a picture or answer a question, and earthcaches require Read more…
May 10, 2021 But first, a quick catch up for yesterday, May 9. We slept late and picked up a few geocaches, one of which gave us an overlook of Loa, Utah where we are staying this week. Loa is a town of about 500 and was settled in 1876. Read more…
May 8, 2021 Capitol Reef was named after white-domed capitol buildings that its rock features resemble and the 100-miles of rock formations that hindered progress as a reef does in the ocean. The “reef” is actually Waterpocket Fold, a buckle in the earth’s surface where rocks have been pushed upwards Read more…
May 6, 2021 Moab was named for a city in the Bible. It was incorporated in 1902 and was originally an agricultural community. Subsequently, uranium, vanadium, potash, manganese, oil, and gas have been mined there. More recently, it has been the setting for film making. Today its 5000 residents also Read more…
May 5, 2021 Today we moved from Bryce Canyon City to Moab, Utah. The most surprising part of the drive was passing the boyhood home of Butch Cassidy. We got a quick photo through the driver’s window. We met up with Jane’s brother Jon and sister-in-law Nancy to visit the Read more…
May 4, 2021 “Before there were any Indians, the Legend People, To-when-an-ung-wa, lived in that place.” Paiute Indians lived in this area long before the arrival of European Americans. A sacred oral tradition of the Paiutes states that the hoodoos are ancient “Legend People” turned into stone by Coyote as Read more…
May 3, 2021 While we waited for the shuttle to take us into Zion Canyon, we chatted with a law enforcement officer (she couldn’t tell us what she did) who had been at Zion a couple of days. We relied on her suggestions to hike the Kayenta Trail from the Read more…
May 2, 2021 Today we wanted to see what we could of the Vermillion Cliffs National Monument and we thought it’d be fun to show Jane’s brother and sister-in-law, Jon and Nancy, some of the sites we’d enjoyed in the area. Our route, about 200 miles, is pictured below. A Read more…
May 1, 2021 We may have been remiss in not telling you a little about Page. In ancient times it was inhabited by Pueblo people, but they did not live in the area continuously. Navajo people continue to live in the area although 24 square miles for the city was Read more…
April 30, 2021 Hanging Gardens Sometimes water traveling to the aquifer meets rock too hard to penetrate and the water seeps out of a hillside. The moisture supports plants that create a hanging garden. We walked about half a mile to hanging gardens growing in an alcove in the middle Read more…