We rode to Miners Camp in Bullion Canyon and stopped along the way at a beautiful waterfall.
There are many miners camps in the area. Some claims are still current and mining for gold continues
There is another RZR on the trail!
Tim and Steve added the accessories
Ten of us went to Gooseberry and the Great Western Trail. Riley made sure Steve and Becky fit through the first 50 inch gate.
And away they go!
I love Becky's stories of her family growing up in the area; from a pet coyote playing in the yard; to a pet crow that learned to talk; to sitting on throne rock. Some of her stories are shocking, me being a city girl and all; them being cowboys and hunters. I've enjoyed her family very much.
The guys were talking about the worlds largest living organism being the forest of aspen trees where we are riding. This is what I found on the internet about it:
"In the Fishlake National Forest in Utah, a giant has lived quietly for the past 80,000 years.The Trembling Giant, or Pando, is a enormous grove of quaking aspens that takes the “forest as a single organism” metaphor and literalizes it: the grove really is a single organism. Each of the approximately 47,000 or so trees in the grove is genetically identical and all the trees share a single root system. While many trees spread through flowering and sexual reproduction, quaking aspens usually reproduce asexually, by sprouting new trees from the expansive lateral root of the parent. The individual trees aren’t individuals, but stems of a massive single clone, and this clone is truly massive. Spanning 107 acres and weighing 6,615 tons, Pando was once thought to be the world’s largest organism (now usurped by thousand-acre fungal mats in Oregon), and is almost certainly the most massive. In terms of other superlatives, the more optimistic estimates of Pando’s age have it as over one million years old, which would easily make it one of the world’s oldest living organism."
We went through several creeks and over many rocks for 6 hours and lots of miles
We're in Butch Cassidy country and look the part as banditos
The alpine flowers were so colorful.
We saw doe that had just given birth. Her fawn was well hidden in the brush.
Tom and Helen celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary and we were invited to the party.
I kinda like this picture of me. All happy and smiling.
Tim and I drove back to Bryce Canyon to meet with Janan and Mike Dini. It is really fun to see friends on the road.
And their poochies are really cool too, but they didn't get in the picture.
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