May 25-26, 2017 San Rafael Swell, Utah

It was supposed to be cooler today, only 85. It ended up being closer to 90 and partly cloudy.

We had a little rain last night. Cool clouds with the storm. We decided to hike Old Woman Canyon today. John got the directions from the internet. It said the trailhead had a fireplace. ?? Well it did, there was no sign of a building ever being there, so no idea what is up with it.

There were flowers all over. Huge bushes of these big sunflowers. Also these red centered flowers too. There were supposed to be two petroglyph panels in this canyon. We found the first, the two bottom photos are what there was. We left the map in the car and had only GPS points in John’s GPS. We hiked up this canyon, it was really hot up on the slickrock. We did not find the other panel and came back.

Interesting rock formations on top. Yellow flowers, odd sand deposition in this spot, cool lines in the rocks and a collared lizard.

John found this white rock in the fireplace. He picked it up and turned it over and it said go naked on the back. Heaven forbid, there are hula hooping cows ahead-it must be bad because there is a flashing light and orange flags! Another yellow flower. When we got back it rain pretty hard, then the sun came out and the slick rock was shiney. 

The storm clouds after they passed us. Sunset was brilliant. 

Windy today. We hung out, then in the afternoon we hiked in the canyon next to the campground. Orange flowers and a couple odd looking rocks.

The San Rafael Swell out the car window on the way to Green River to have dinner at the famous Ray’s tavern.

 The wind had so much dust in the air that the light was cool. And a Green vista.

This morning there was the white 5th wheel on the right  in front of us and the brown motorhome to the left behind us, getting too crowded. Sunset. 

Sunset and Seed heads, cactus flowers and needle and thread grass.

This motorhome is parked near us. Too much, 4 slides, one with a deck of it and a TV satellite.  The deck does not look very stable. Our microwave/convection oven has not worked well since we got the bus and it finally bit the dust. We can’t microwave or bake. Good thing we are almost to Fort Collins, we can get it fixed there we hope.