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Lady Bug
I thought I had a pretty good plan, with a couple of back-up places to camp at higher elevations in case the heat got to us. But unfortunately, and fortunately, tunnel-vision and exhaustion made the decision for me.
This long weekend started off with two objectives:
1) Get that photo of Muley Point for my (step)dad like I’d promised last time I went up there.
2) Travel the road into Arches to Balanced Rock that Ed Abbey talked about in Desert Solitaire. The original entrance into Arches BLM 378 Willow Spring Road.
The first night, I camped at one of my favorite-not-too-far-from-home places to camp out near Munds Park, AZ.
I suppose you could say that the weekend was a resounding success on those two objectives:
I drove up the Moki Dugway
and got the photo:
and
and stayed overnight up at Muley Point. This time, however, I didn’t stay right out at the point where it was so horribly windy last time, but instead, moved south to a somewhat treed area I’d scouted before. (Point over there to the left, my campsite somewhere on that red circled road.)
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This long weekend started off with two objectives:
1) Get that photo of Muley Point for my (step)dad like I’d promised last time I went up there.
2) Travel the road into Arches to Balanced Rock that Ed Abbey talked about in Desert Solitaire. The original entrance into Arches BLM 378 Willow Spring Road.
The first night, I camped at one of my favorite-not-too-far-from-home places to camp out near Munds Park, AZ.
I suppose you could say that the weekend was a resounding success on those two objectives:
I drove up the Moki Dugway
and got the photo:
and
and stayed overnight up at Muley Point. This time, however, I didn’t stay right out at the point where it was so horribly windy last time, but instead, moved south to a somewhat treed area I’d scouted before. (Point over there to the left, my campsite somewhere on that red circled road.)
(Continued below)