Getting Going.
The camp on the San Miguel River.
Bear Number 3.
Not too far down the road we saw another bear. This one was pretty young. It was at a turn out with a garbage can. The bear was checking out the can but when we slowed down to see it, the bear took off.
Dolores River Canyon.
Somewhere, as we descended into a huge valley…
As we continued to descend the scenery gets better and better.
Hanging Flume.
We stopped at a turn out to look into the canyon.
If you look closely on the right side of the canyon you can see a structure clinging to the wall.
Cant see it in that picture? Try this one.
What you are looking at is the remains of a water flume that was built by miners to get enough water to placer mine some where way down the canyon.
Here is a sign that tells about it but you will have to blow it up to read it.
Pictures Don’t work.
The drive down the canyon was amazing but of course as you probably know, trying to capture natures beauty on the scale of canyons like this with our cheap camera’s is almost a lost cause.
Having said that here are a few pictures of the Dolores River Canyon.
Okay, you’ll have to be satisfied with those few snapshots.
If you are ever in Colorado around Grand Junction Colorado take that ride in Scenic Byway 141.
Continuing On.
After leaving the canyon we went through more beautiful country.
and eventually got to Grand Junction not as beautiful country.
Once we gassed up and had a hotdog we were back on the road to Rifle.
The road to Rifle unfortunately is I-70. We went about 50 miles and got off the interstate and onto highway 13. We followed 13 north about 10 miles north of Rifle we turned onto a dirt road. About a mile down this road we turned onto a smaller road that led us to a nice flat spot to camp for the night.
While we were sitting around a guy and woman drove up on a side by side. We visited with them for a while.
It was a nice quiet evening.
The Long Road Home Day, 5. Camp on Sheep creek, Flaming Gorge Reservoir.
We got started around 10:30 this morning, heading north on Highway 64.
We went through Rangely, Colorado. Rangely is known for oil production, Fossil hunting and deer/elk hunting.
Here is a big refinery outside of town.
The country around here is pretty bleak.
The next place we went through is Dinosaur.
You can probably guess what their claim to fame is.
Highway 191.
At Vernal, Utah we got onto Highway 191.
191 is vey scenic and goes over an 8400 ft. pass.
Slow Poke.
We came up on this Tesla Automobile on the road doing about 20 miles/hour.
We figured that either he was either scared to death of the road or he was trying to conserve electricity so he could make it to the next town.
Good luck buddy.
Flaming Gorge Reservoir.
Pretty soon we could see the south end of Flaming Gorge Reservoir.
It was getting close to time to camp so we started looking for side roads.
We checked out a couple and got lucky as we found a road that went right to the Sheep Creek finger of the lake. There were ample flat spots for camping and a great view of the red cliffs and the lake.
The only down side to this camp spot were a few Mosquito’s.
Ok that was day 3 & 4 of the long road home.
Now I am finally caught up again.
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