ESCALANTE CANYON

Saturday we drove to Grand Junction to pick up my shoes, but we found the store closed, so we went to Chick-fil-A for lunch. We had a coupon for a free lemonade. Since Allan filled out a customer survey we get a free sandwich on our next visit which will probably be next Saturday.

We got measurements on Lowes roll out metal drawers and will probably return there next week also to get one for the larger cabinet in our kitchen.

Next stop was Barnes and Noble. Allan downloaded several books to his Nook and I looked at their small selection of genealogy books.

I made a quick stop at the Natures Grocery for some vitamins.

Sunday afternoon we visited Escalante Canyon. As we drove through Delta the bank sign said it was 103 degrees. It felt about 10-15 degrees cooler and we were not sweating. As we got lower in the canyon the Jeep temperature sensor showed 93 degrees. We are so happy that we now have a Jeep instead of touring in the Freightliner especially when we travel on gravel or dirt roads. We traveled about 20 miles into the canyon on unpaved, narrow roads. The canyon was very picturesque with a variety of rock of different types and soil mixed with boulders. Many looked like they could fall at any time and there was evidence along side of the road that this had happened. Most of the land is privately owned by the Escalante Land and Cattle Company. But there were other sections that was government BLM land. In these sections people are allowed to camp and play in the river. Of course, this is all dry camping, no electricity, water or sewer and no cell phone connections. We don't think we will bring our MH down here. All of this land is very dry with little vegetation except along the river and creeks. The ranch irrigates so these areas are green and beautiful. We came across two old stone houses that were erected in 1911. At one, they used a vertical slab of rock for one of the walls of the house. We really enjoyed our trip into the wilderness.

Returning to camp we passed a field with four buck grazing.

Allan got pictures of some of the campers from last week playing on the zip line.

Hope you enjoy our pictures. Wish you could have been with us.