hoyden
Lady Bug
Part 01 (forum said I have too many pictures, so making two separate posts)
After plans fell through for a long weekend in California campering, I decided to head up to my beloved Southern Utah and visit Abbeyland with the dogs.
Pugsly was an excellent navigator.
As we headed toward Thursday nights camping spot outside of Mormon Lake, Az, a downed tree blocked our way! Oh no!
I summoned my super-powers and moved the tree out of the way with brute strength! (Pugsly might have helped a little)
We found a nice spot to overnight and settled in.
Friday travels took us through John Wayne country: Monument Valley.
It's pretty amazing area.
Fridays plan was to go up Moki Dugway (it was constructed in 1958 by Texas Zinc, a mining company, to transport uranium ore from the "Happy Jack" mine in Fry Canyon to the processing mill in Mexican Hat.) Instead, I decided to explore a bit. There is a road at the base of the climb up Moki Dugway called "Valley of the Gods Road". How could I resist checking that out? The dirt road wound around and parallelish to a pretty major wash. Of course, I wouldn't know about that until after I'd found a beautiful campsite.
It's wonderfully isolated. This was a dirt road off of the dirt Valley of the Gods road.
I checked in with my mom, who mapped my location. She noticed a wash not far. I took Argos for a walk, and found it 100 feet away. After some consultation, and sky-watching, I decided to move camp lest I get washed away in a flash flood. Mom recommended I camp up top of Moki Dugway. That sounded pretty fantastic, so up the crazy, scary switch-backs I drove.
We took a pit-stop on the twisty-turny hair-piny road and Argos took survey of the land below.
Unfortunately, as I drove up the Moki Dugway (SR261), a storm was approaching. My mom who has been there before was helping me navigate via phone. She instructed me to turn left down the dirt road off the SR261 and drive on it for three miles, where it would open up to an amazing view.
The road did indeed open up to an amazing, and vertigo inducing, view. However, right after I got parked and camper set up, it started to rain. Then pour. The storm finally cleared, with enough daylight for me to enjoy the beautiful vista.
After plans fell through for a long weekend in California campering, I decided to head up to my beloved Southern Utah and visit Abbeyland with the dogs.
Pugsly was an excellent navigator.
As we headed toward Thursday nights camping spot outside of Mormon Lake, Az, a downed tree blocked our way! Oh no!
I summoned my super-powers and moved the tree out of the way with brute strength! (Pugsly might have helped a little)
We found a nice spot to overnight and settled in.
Friday travels took us through John Wayne country: Monument Valley.
It's pretty amazing area.
Fridays plan was to go up Moki Dugway (it was constructed in 1958 by Texas Zinc, a mining company, to transport uranium ore from the "Happy Jack" mine in Fry Canyon to the processing mill in Mexican Hat.) Instead, I decided to explore a bit. There is a road at the base of the climb up Moki Dugway called "Valley of the Gods Road". How could I resist checking that out? The dirt road wound around and parallelish to a pretty major wash. Of course, I wouldn't know about that until after I'd found a beautiful campsite.
It's wonderfully isolated. This was a dirt road off of the dirt Valley of the Gods road.
I checked in with my mom, who mapped my location. She noticed a wash not far. I took Argos for a walk, and found it 100 feet away. After some consultation, and sky-watching, I decided to move camp lest I get washed away in a flash flood. Mom recommended I camp up top of Moki Dugway. That sounded pretty fantastic, so up the crazy, scary switch-backs I drove.
We took a pit-stop on the twisty-turny hair-piny road and Argos took survey of the land below.
Unfortunately, as I drove up the Moki Dugway (SR261), a storm was approaching. My mom who has been there before was helping me navigate via phone. She instructed me to turn left down the dirt road off the SR261 and drive on it for three miles, where it would open up to an amazing view.
The road did indeed open up to an amazing, and vertigo inducing, view. However, right after I got parked and camper set up, it started to rain. Then pour. The storm finally cleared, with enough daylight for me to enjoy the beautiful vista.