Category: Campgrounds

Zion Natl Park – Sunday June 2, 2013

Today is our last day at Zion and we will be heading to Lees Ferry National Rec Area tomorrow morning.  The current plan is Monday and Tuesday at Lees Ferry and then Wednesday and Thursday at a Nevada park, Cathedral Gorge State Park.  Head home early Friday morning.

Hot yesterday.
Hotter today,

It actually says 97.5 now.  Hank is hot but being very good.  He loves ice so we are letting him have ice to eat.

This morning Jean and I took the tram up to the lodge to look at the gift store.  We have final been here enough times that Jean could not find anything.  The visit count is at 13.

 

Zion Natl Park, UT – Friday May 31, 1950

Another great day at Zion.

I got up at 5:15 a.m. to catch the 6:00 a.m. bus up the valley.  This gives me an hour and a half start on most of the people who visit the park.  The traffic into the valley gets really started about 7:00 a.m.  My goals was to spend a couple of hours on the trail heading towards the East Rim.  The east rim trail follows the heavily used Observation Point trail for the first two miles than cuts off to the very seldom used east rim trail.  As an example I’d guess 3-400 people climb up to Observation Point most days and the east rim trail sees 10-20 people. This year I saw 6 people from 7:00 to 11:00 a.m and in past years I’ve spent of 7:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m and seen 2 people.  Zion is a big place and any place off the main trails is quite.  I went to GPS 37 16.498N 112 55.547W, this is worth looking at in Google Earth however here are some screen shots.

By the way the elevation is 5511.

Here are a couple of pictures from the last couple of days.
Hank and I got this picture the other morning.
Had to have a least one sunset taken from our campsite.
Have not idea what flower this is.

This seed pod is at least 4 inches across, a half hour later it was gone 😦 .

Think it got up to 92 on Friday, Saturday’s forecast is 94 and Sunday 100.  See you later.

PS. CONGRATULATIONS Stine

 

 

 

Zion Natl Park – Tuesday May 28, 2013

First night of vacation, rest stop just north of Eugene Oregon. Left home at 5:00 on Thursday.

We got to Richard & Vicki’s at the regular time 6:30. Had great time Friday and Saturday getting to see Richard’s 65 Chevy pickup and his talent of making really cool men out of train rail spikes.
We left Sunday morning at 7:00 and got to Cedar City, Utah at 8:00 pm 526 miles. It was a nice drive across Nevada, east on 50 and south on 93. Spent he night in a Home Depot parking let next to Walmart.
Got to Zion in an hour and set up in site B44 right on the river.
This is my birthday/father’s day gift from TA, I’m going to make sure it gets a lot of usage this year and in the future.
Note the rain fly in the middle of the sun cover. Yes on the assembly instructions it’s called a rain fly.

It even has it’s own cooler, the bad picture above shows it from the side with the last picture showing the inside.

Started this on my cellphone and updating it from my IPad. I got a phone app which makes my phone a wiFi hotspot.

That’s it for today my glass is empty.

 

Fort Flagler – Saturday April 27, 2013

Got here about 8:45 last night and only three sites were still open. This is site 72 with no power.

Camp site picture will not post :-(.  Got an android WordPress update the other day, updates are not always a good thing.)

Sunday morning.
Got the picture problem fixed. So I’ll continue. I got another WordPress update Saturday.

That is site 72 way up in the trees. After Wait Wait Don’t Tell me Hank and I left for our regular Saturday morning walk. We walked out of the trees and found three front row sites open. We moved to site 112.

The park remained mostly full with at least 5 sites open the rest of the day. Couple more people left and couple showed up.

One of my projects before vacation was to create steering reminders so I don’t forget thinks when we move. Like the time last fall when we spent the night at a truck/rest stop and I forgot to put the bedroom slide in BEFORE we started to leave. I usually walk around the outside of the motorhome before we move however this time I didn’t.

Here are the pieces of Velcro I put on the steering wheel so I don’t forget. They are things like are the leveling jacks up, Hanks rope picked up, thermometer picked up, etc.
It rained most of the night and has been pretty wet this morning.