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From there onto Bryce. Bryce is, well Bryce……. Nice view for a lunch spot while hiking The local wildlife was used to human foot and was running all around and over us trying to get our lunch as we ate. It was nice to camp in the trees and shade for a few days. Afternoon rains kept it...

Hwy 12 from Boulder to Escalante is very scenic: We camped at Calf Creek Recreation are and did the 6 mile hike to lower calf creek falls the next morning. The Canyon is a real Oasis in the desert with year round water and a real riparian habitat. At the end of the canyon lies the falls – a...

Next morning we headed towards Grand Staircase Eacalante National Monument. We were going to take the Bull Creek Pass Scenic Backway over the Henry mountains, but the folks at the BLM office told us it was a tire eater and to expect a flat. Still having the original tires on my Frontier, I...

Back to the highway and across to Little Wildhorse Canyon, a slot canyon in the area. Figured a slot canyon would be a little cooler place to hike in the heat of the day. After that we found a track leading off the main dirt road to a nice quite camp site for the evening:

I guess the ranchers in the 1920’s pumped water out of the canyon for their cattle. Dry for a long time, the cattle we saw on the drive in were all clustered around water tanks filled with trucked in water. Drove through a small sand dune area on the way back. My daughter ran out to play...

Got up early the next morning to beat the heat and started hiking the 6.5 miles round trip to the Great Gallary, a collection of 3,000 year old pictographs. Hiking down the 750’ trail to the canyon bottom we say this scurrying across the trail: Not exactly sure what that caterpillar was doing...

Continuing along hwy 95 we passed though Hite Crossing and the northern edge of Lake Powell. Temp at 5pm 99 degrees. The rocks were like heaters and it was hot in the sun. On to Hanksville and north on Utah 24 about 25 miles to Goblin Valley State Park. Took a right on a dirt road for 30...

Everyone else goes to the desert in the fall or spring. What better way to see the desert then in its prime, in the summer? Given a preference, I probably would have gone in the fall or spring, but the week my daughter and I had to go there was the end of June, beginning of July. “It can’t be...