Category: Nevada-Utah-Arizona Spring 2017

  • Saturday 3/18

    Saturday 3/18

    Saturday 3/18 Went to bed last night thinking I would stay at Capital Reef another couple of nights. There are a lot of nice hikes and drives and I could easily stay two days. But my scotch blood kept sayin’ there are better places for free! There are a lot of Back Country Byways in…

  • Friday 3/17

    Friday 3/17

    Friday, 3/17 Lazy day of organizing, shorts walks and a quest to check in. Capital Reef NP campground is situated in old time orchards in “Fruita”. The Fremont River runs thru it and there are 3-4 nice walks/ hikes that start from the campground. I started walking to the Visitor Center to get some post…

  • Thursday 3/16

    Thursday 3/16

    Thursday No shower this morning! Decided to head out and start heading towards Moab. Of course that means 30 some miles out. Beautiful morning, low 60s, it will take a couple of hours to get back to pavement. I haven’t checked in, as you already know, for a few days. I have a new phone…

  • Wednesday 3/15

    Wednesday 3/15

    Wednesday A hot shower, in the morning, after crapping in a sit down toilet, it’s the simple things in life. I got wood, I got water, I need some groceries, fuel up and ready to hit the “Hole in the Rock” #3 gravel road. 56 miles in, ah, 56 miles OUT. Nice wide road, dry…

  • Tuesday 3/14

    Tuesday 3/14

    Tuesday Was going to stay another day at Great Basin but decided in the morning to just go. Stay or go is not a matter of setup/breakdown ’cause it just doesn’t factor in. I can be wheels moving in 5 minutes. Hindsight, should have stayed another day. It’s hard at the beginning to turn it…

  • Monday 3/13

    Monday 3/13

    Monday Decided last night to head to Great Basin National Park. The weather has been fine in the day time but the nights are in the low 30 high 20s. It looks like it will be warmer. As I headed back from the hills I found the road I was looking for. ” I THINK”…

  • Sunday 3/12

    Sunday 3/12

    Sunday Following 93S thru Arco, Twin Falls down into Nevada. Decided to wild camp. Cherry Creek, north of Ely looked promising and maybe this road would eventually end up near Ely. Eight miles on a decent paved road and you come to Cherry Creek. Look at the pictures there ain’t shit here. Why is it…

  • Saturday 3/11

    Saturday 3/11

    Saturday Up over Lost Trails down into Idaho following the Salmon River. I wanted to camp in the same spot I used in November, it’s by the river and it has a shitter. It’s was already occupied so I continued on. There was room for two units there but …… not tonight. I found a…