2019 loneliest road – part 23, Great Basin Natl. Park: lows and highs, higher still
Today we went low and high: low into the Lehman Caves and high to Mt. Wheeler. When the area became a national monument in 1922 around the Lehman Caves, it...
2019 loneliest road – part 24, Great Basin Natl. Park: ranching, post art, water, more history, end of Hwy. 50
Great Basin National Park is just up the road from Baker, a very small town in the basin between the 2 summits. On the road to Baker, we kept seeing...
2019 four corners – part 1, Utah: an unusual campsite and a drive to match our destination
We finished our drive out of Nevada’s Great Basin toward Utah, climbing over 2 more summits and their basins until we finally made it to the Wasatch Mountains, the eastern...
2019 four corners – part 2, Utah: Cedar Breaks National Monument
The Southern Paiute called this area a word that meant “the place where the rocks are sliding down all the time.” But why do we call it “Cedar Breaks”? Such...
2019 four corners – part 3, Utah: sports on Brian Head Summit
Amazing how our hunger can lead us to interesting places. We ended up outside of the park but still in the Dixie National Forest. This is the local place to...