Sunday, May 2, 2010
Day 37
Let is snow, let it snow, let it snow...
Keeping warm on squirrel watch
Woke up to grey skies and before long it started to snow. the dogs came in from their short morning walk shivering...they are sooooo southern dogs! People here said that they were so surprised, it was very unusual for snow this late. Hah! They didn't know we were on the way! Later we made a hurried trip around the food section of Walmart, and got up I70 before it got worse. And then it got worse.
Snow sure washes the color out of a photo
There we were, a South Carolina vehicle up in the mountains with snow and wind and ROCKY CLIFFS... I decided to distract myself by looking out the side window for wildlife. There were signs for elk and deer. Surely, I'd be able to see elk easy today, they would stand out with the snow covering the ground...and there was a river at the bottom of the SHEER DROP OFF, certainly they would come down for a drink. Right?
No, even they wouldn't show up on a lousy morning like this. Well, maybe deer...I'll look for them, see them all the time, but I need to distract myself. Nope, no Bambi's either. How about a loose cow? Heck, I'd even take a bunny rabbit, I just don't want to look out of the windshield! Nada, nothing. Here we were in the middle of a national forest with no services for over 100 miles, and I used to see more wildlife in my last house's back yard, which was in a large subdivision. Sunday morning...Utah...maybe they're Morman wildlife.
Finally, the snow stopped and little by little the sun overtook the clouds. The mountains changed to multi colored towering cliffs and canyons. So many layers of rock, laid down over millions of years, makes you wonder what changes were happening on the very spot that you are standing on.
From the town of Bedrock...
Salt Wash View Area on I70
Devil's Canyon, photos don't really show how deep it is
I hate to see these signs! The ramp ended at a stone cliff, if the gravel didn't stop you the cliff will!
How's that for an interstate road sign?
Leaving Spotted Wolf Canyon on I70
We entered so many different landscapes in such a relatively short time today. One area had rounded small hills of different colors. A particular mound, off in the distance, was more or less isolated and unlike the others consisted of only two colors, a sand dune color and the peak was a red sandstone with a small boulder on top.
I pointed it out... "Oh look at that one, kinda looks like a cupcake, huh?"
Jim looked to his left, "No....I think it looks more like a nipple."
Men and women are wired different. Doesn't it figure, I see food, he sees something sexual. But as I took another look before we drove out of sight...he was right.
We drove through some spectacular landscape today. Moab is very busy, we were surprised at the number of campers in the parks here...we got the last long site in the KOA. The weather warmed a bit, it's in the mid 50's (they tell us it's 20 degrees colder than normal) but tomorrow and Tuesday is fore-casted to be in the 70's with SUN!
When my son heard that we were headed to Utah, he said that the people of Utah should be warned that a plague of locust would be descending on them!
Very funny.
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