Saturday August 8,
2015 Day 11 Still at Green River Campground
We were to leave today to start heading for Flaming Gorge
National Recreation Area, but decided to stay one more day at Dinosaur. We weren’t sure about where we would stay or
what we would do there, and there was still some things we could do here. We had a good site and we really like this
place.
Like yesterday, had my coffee at the picnic table and tried
to write Friday’s blog. No fire this
morning. Got out the propane stove and
cooked some Neuske’s Canadian bacon with fried eggs for breakfast. For those of you who don’t know, Neuske’s is
world reknown for their smoked meats and cheeses and is located in Wittenberg,
WI. We stop there any time we are in WI
visiting Marsha’s relatives.
Marsha spent some time on her blogs, too.
Afterwards we went to a location in the park that had a
homestead from 1909 from a single woman who lived there for 50 years by
herself. The old log cabin was still
standing. An unusual feature of it was
that every room, about four, had an outside entry door connected inside, too. There was a root celler and chicken coop,
too. Here water flowed out of the
mountain from a pipe. We forgot to get
pictures. There were two trailheads from
there, Hog Canyon Trail, and Box Canyon Trail.
The Hog Canyon Trail was 1.5 miles round trip and that’s the one we
took. The other was .5 mile round
trip. It was interesting. Very high cliff walls on both sides of us
that got closer together, the farther we walked. It finally dead ended. First time I ever hiked through a
canyon. Driven through them, but this
was more personal and close up. Got some pictures
while on the trail.
Back at the campground, gathered up our Flaming Gorge
information that we got a few days ago at the Welcome to Utah visitor
center. We then headed to Vernal, 13
miles away. We needed ice and some
propane for my cute little 5 lb. propane cylinders that I run the grill and
camp stove with. Found a Chevron station
that had all of the above, and gasoline.
In Vernal, I checked out the Ford Dealer. I knew I would be in the Vernal area for a
few days and Vernal is a big enough town to have a Ford Dealer, Showalter
Motors. I was on their website and set
up an appointment for Monday or Tuesday for oil change and to get that canister
purge valve changed. The said they would
respond on Monday, to let me know if they could fit me in. The truck is working fine, even after
refueling. The oil change message comes
on every time I start the truck. I hope
I can take it in on Monday.
We drove up US-191 to the Flaming Gorge Dam visitor center
and got some information. We did not
tour the dam, but will in the next few days.
I toured it in 1976 when I was passing through on the way to San
Francisco. I didn’t know anything about
hydro power back then. But I do
now. On the way we looked at the
Lodgepole National Forest Campground in the Ashley National Forrest and that is
where we will set up as our base for checking out Flaming Gorge area. We even chose what site we wanted. The campground is about 30 miles north of
Vernal and about 7 miles south of the dam.
It is one of the few forested campgrounds in the area because it is on
the eastern slopes of the Uinta Mountains and gets a lot of rain. It was raining through there on our way back.
We were hungry by then and remembered a Mexican restaurant a
little north of Vernal that had a full parking lot, so we thought it must be
good. So we checked it out on the way
back, and it was good. It was the first
meal we ate out on the whole trip so far.
Got back to the campground about 19:00.
Made a campfire, the first one in Dinosaur, and sat out,
finishing Friday’s blog, mostly waiting for pictures to upload. Hope you liked it.
Tomorrow, we really will go to the Flaming Gorge area and
camp at Lodgepole.
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