05-14-10 Today Patti and I went to Spring Canyon Point. We drove north on Highway 191, turned west on Highway 313, (the road that goes to Canyonlands). About 8 miles up the road we turned north on Dubinky Well Road. After about 4 miles we turned east on Spring Canyon Point Road and followed it to the end. Along the way we passed Tombstone Rock.

A little further we came across some Bighorn Sheep feeding on some brush above the road. Patti got some nice shots of them.

Spring Canyon Point overlooks the Green River.

On our way to the point we passed some other trails and decided to check them out on the way back. One went to Secret Spire. Of course it isn’t really much of a secret since it is in the Moab Back Roads and Jeep Trails book so a lot of people know about it. Patti tried to push it over but without much sucess.

There were several vehicles there, with some families and a bunch of kids so we left there and stopped on some “slick rocks” with a view to have lunch.

I don’t know why they call the rocks “slick rocks” because they are usually pretty bumpy, but I guess it is because they are all one piece. They aren’t very slick, at least when they are dry anyway. After lunch we drove back to Tombstone Rock where we turned south toward Dellenbaugh Tunnel. The road to the tunnel had a few spots where we had to do a little minor rock crawling.

It was fun and the tunnel was pretty neat.

Patti got several nice flower pictures during the day.

The weather continues to be unsettled. It was overcast all day with a few sprinkles. It started raining in earnest around 6:00 this evening and is still raining as I write this at 10:00.