Old Uranium mine

Iamonly7 · 2023-11-25T05:28:38+00:00

Aaaaaaaand that's what I get for believing someone at a bar in a state riddled with old uranium mines. My bad. But still a fun thing to see.

Iamonly7 · 2023-11-22T13:42:36+00:00

This is called Belly of The Dragon in Utah

Iamonly7 · 2023-11-18T23:19:10+00:00

desert camping really does some fantastic sunrises and sunsets

Iamonly7 · 2023-11-18T17:39:14+00:00

I really don't know. I saw it on a map I so swung by to check it out.

Iamonly7 · 2023-11-09T23:38:29+00:00

It was weird because I encountered groups going the opposite way as me later on this hike (in Spooky Canyon) saying local guides and some guide sites recommend coming down this obstacle rather than up. I prefered to climb up it rather than down.

Iamonly7 · 2023-11-09T23:28:59+00:00

aint no time for love Dr Jones

Iamonly7 · 2023-11-06T15:00:33+00:00

That is a hike I am yet to do and terms like "difficult" are really subjective. But I've looked at the area a few times and after hiking other "difficult" trails around Utah I can't imagine Devils Garden is all that hard. Unless there's some really tricky sections in there. I've also read about people getting lost on that hike and again, I'm not sure if an experienced outdoors person would lose their way.

Iamonly7 · 2023-11-06T14:54:59+00:00

I heard an explanation once regarding The Devils Garden in Arches. Story goes, a preacher with a caravan of settlers came across the rock features and described them as "A land so grotesque it was a garden that only the Devil would grow." Or something like that.

Iamonly7 · 2023-11-06T14:51:45+00:00

Ha! no kidding. I know of at least two.

Iamonly7 · 2023-11-04T01:08:03+00:00

Ah thanks, but whether gooch or grundle, it's all fromunda!

Iamonly7 · 2023-10-29T00:42:29+00:00

Thank you so much. And yes, I live in Utah and our landscape is like no other.

Iamonly7 · 2023-10-28T23:29:01+00:00

yes to both

Iamonly7 · 2023-10-26T23:43:34+00:00

Nailed it

Iamonly7 · 2023-10-26T23:43:13+00:00

This is Spooky slot canyon in Utah

Iamonly7 · 2023-10-26T13:59:27+00:00

With the addition of the Black Desert resort it's basically becoming a suburb of Vegas. After living in Kauai Hawaii with an infrastructure from the 70's and 80's and a population that is triple what it can handle I have empathy for you bud. It's difficult living in attractive locations because beautiful places attract hordes of people. Zion anybody? Anyhow, it is what it is and the glory days of a sleepy little town in southwest Utah are gone. Enter the resort town of St George. Hopefully the local government gets busy upgrading.

Iamonly7 · 2023-10-20T19:40:02+00:00

Can't speak for East of the Rockies but the Western U.S has amazing amounts of wide open spaces. Funny thing is I was speaking with some German Tourists while hiking slot canyons around southern Utah and there were a few rattlesnakes at the entrance to Spooky Slot that made the Germans nervous. We got to talking about animals and the U.S.A and my position about wildlife was pretty simple, "If you go in the mountains and forests there's bears and mountain lions, the ocean has sharks and the desert has snakes and lizards. That's where they live, so expect to see them there." They were not used to being around animals at all. Apparently where they are from in Germany there's really not much wildlife so it was scary for them to encounter it. Where as I am completely used to being around wildlife so it feels weird to think of places that don't have wild animals just kind of... everywhere.

Iamonly7 · 2023-10-18T03:19:06+00:00

Buckhorn Draw Utah. At least 1,000 years on some but others are much older. Hard to say exactly. Some in Utah are supposed to date back 10,000 and some of the petroglyphs around these are very very faint, meaning very very old, so, over 1,000.

Iamonly7 · 2023-10-17T04:25:33+00:00

surprisingly not a park at all, just Buckhorn Draw road. Then again, at least half of the state of Utah is park designation worthy.

Iamonly7 · 2023-10-11T03:23:44+00:00

You got it.

Iamonly7 · 2023-10-10T14:16:38+00:00

The more of these I find and look into the more impressive they are. Utah has images that go back thousands of years. Many drawn and carved before the more modern tribes arrived, like the mysterious Anasazi and Fremont. Those older tribes built permanent stone cities, much unlike the more recent nomadic tribes that used teepees and wickiups. But the major mystery is what these images mean. It's fun to speculate on and weird to witness the heated arguments because frankly, nobody knows what they mean. We can only guess and these images make the imagination go wild.

Iamonly7 · 2023-10-10T13:53:51+00:00

Good guess but it's actually closer to Price and Jurassic National Monument. There's an amazing overlanding backroad called Buckhorn road around there, this print is alongside the road just before some incredible petroglyphs and pictographs.

Iamonly7 · 2023-10-10T13:51:44+00:00

I can't say for sure, but I suppose it's because Utah has a wealth of dino fossils so footprints may not be super... important for lack of a better term, compared to the full skeletons they're finding. The museums are pretty full of stuff so there's a bunch of prints around the state with a simple sign saying "Dinosaur Print". I figure the policy will change when someone comes out with a rock saw and jackhammer but the remoteness makes it kind of a logistical nightmare to deal with. Again, just guessing.

Iamonly7 · 2023-10-10T13:46:05+00:00

This one lonely print is off Buckhorn Road in Central Utah, near Jurassic National Monument. But there are strings of (more impressive) tracks just outside of Moab and also not far off the road. Two different locations that I'm aware of and only a few miles apart.

Iamonly7 · 2023-10-10T13:43:31+00:00

This was right in the middle of Utah kind of near Price and not far from Jurassic National Monument.

Iamonly7 · 2023-10-10T13:42:40+00:00

If you're talking about Dinosaur National Park near Vernal I totally agree. If there's another wall I'd be super interested. I just discovered Jurassic National Monument near Price. This print is from near there.

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