Thursday, September 04, 2008

Contrasts: Bryce 2008 - Kevin Myers

Far and Redford were not very well prepared for Bryce, so I was not very motivated to make the trip. I'm glad I went.

The drive up through Flagstaff is always nice because the temperature drops so quickly. I stopped for gas before heading north into the wilderness south of Page, then west to Kanab and north past the Mt. Carmel base camp. I got to the Bryce base camp at 8,000 ft in just over eight hours.

Jim and Clydea had saved a spot to the north of camp, and I set up the two horses as the sun set. The pump had broken on the XP water truck, so it was a fair walk down a sand hill to get water - two buckets at a time. ...

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