Mountain Cabin

One of our rides took us to the top of a very tall mountain.  We found this cabin along the way pretty high up and what a view they have.  I wouldn't want to drive to this place because it was rough even with a 4 wheeler.  It was cool up this high and probably never gets real hot.  Very nice in the summer and probably not used in the winter.  They must haul their own water up and enough groceries to last quite awhile.

We went by a cabin that was for sale up in the mountains.  It didn't have a nice view at all and it was surrounded by other cabins.  It was on a road that turned out to be fairly busy for being so high up and away from any town.  Its fun to look but you have to think hard about how far from town you want to be and a lot of these places have outhouses  -- no thanks.

Snow Melt

The snow on the tops of the mountains in the top picture is pretty much all melted now.  It has been in the low 90's which melted it quickly.  The good thing is that the temperature drops to the 50's at night and there is no humidity.  We saw them spray for mosquitoes the other night but we have never seen any.  We have still had no rain so now it is almost two months with nothing wetting the ground.  Clouds form but no rain hits the ground it just evaporates.  

The 4wheeling trails have been very busy.  We are only a few hours from Salt Lake City so people come for the weekend to ride.  It always amazes us that they can bring so much stuff for just two days of fun.  Staying in an RV is supposed to be a good way to enjoy the outdoors and do the social distancing thing.  The problem is they come with their friends and then large groups of them hang out together so there goes the social distancing.  

We have had a good view of the comet the last two nights.  It was visible under the Big Dipper close to the horizon.  If I was any good at night photography I would try to get a picture because it has a pretty good tail.  

Mountain Lakes

We needed to go up high to get out of the heat so we went up to look at some mountain lakes.   The top picture is a reservoir called Manning Meadow.  Manning creek runs out of it and flows all the way down almost to Marysvale.  The lake is at 10,000 feet so it was nice and cool up there.  The other lake is called Barney Lake and was much smaller.  There were some people fishing on it using a canoe.    There is a dirt track, barely a road back to Barney Lake but they had gotten a small truck in there.  

We have seen lots of wildlife on our trips.  Mule deer, wild turkeys, black tailed rabbits, yellow bellied marmots, glimpses of elk, grouse and several rattlesnakes.    The snakes seem to like to cross the road in front of us so we just stop and wait for them to get out of our way.  It has been hot here and it is extremely dry.  It hasn't rained in more than a month and it doesn't look like it will any time soon.  There are lots of wildfires popping up but so far nothing very close to us.

Dry Falls

One of our 4wheeling trips took us to an area called Dry Falls.  You can't see it from the road so someone marked the spot along the trail with a pile of rocks.  We stopped at the pile of rocks and looked down into the canyon and finally spotted the falls.  I used a telephoto lens or it would be hard to see in a picture.  The creek that feeds the falls still has water running in it so we got to see it before it dried up.  We have great mountain vistas but the snow on top of them is almost gone.

This is fourth of July weekend and the campground is full.  If you are in the market for an RV that can haul a 4wheeler in the back of it you an see every make and model here.  We have even seen travel trailers with a 4wheeler on a trailer being pulled behind it.  That is not legal in most states and most insurance companies won't cover that arrangement.  If  don't have a 4wheeler you can rent one from several outfits in the area.   So with the miles of trails, several motels and plenty of campgrounds 4wheeling is the recreation of choice in this area.