2011 Trip - Day 63
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Sunday, June 19 -Capitol Reef National Park, UT - 33.9 miles, 10368.2 for the trip
Well, today is different. It's 4:00, and has been the first really bad day of the trip. It rained off and on lightly last night, and was around 56°F this morning when I got up around 8:00. It has been downhill since. The wind is rocking the trailer, the temperature is down to 47° and falling, and, although it sometimes clears just enough to think it is worth heading out, it starts to rain again as you open the door!
I guess I can't complain - for most of the trip I have had pretty good weather, at least for the seasons I have been traveling in. I spent most of the day catching up on reading some of my RV web pages, and adding some of the trip photos to my screensaver.
Unless the weather changes, there won't be any new photos other than a site picture - Although you can't see it, the leaves were shaking on the trees, but the wind slowed down enough that I could catch the trailer without a blur! There are some nice rock cliffs behind the site.
Well, I got lucky. Around 5:45 the sun came out. I jumped in the car & drove to the Hickman Bridge parking lot. There is a great view of Pectol's Pyramid from the trail to Navajo Knobs. This is a 9 mile round trip (I didn't do the whole trail!) but along the way there is a good combination of the black andesite boulders & the view of the pyramid across the Fremont River. As I said, I was lucky. By the time I got back to my car the clouds rolled in - I took a photo of Chimney Rock, but without sun it is pretty dull.
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Pectol's Pyramid |
Pectol's Pyramid |
Pectol's Pyramid |
Chimney Rock |
Of course, by the time I got back to the campground (about 15 miles from the park) guess what? The sun is back out & it's up to 51°F! A strange day...
Till tomorrow -
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