Today it was the Ark. Because the blocks at the top are so steep, I wasn't sure I could get up. I've tried before, from Center Creek, but got rimmed out. Today, I tried it from Bowery Creek. I walked to Henderson Hill. From there you can do it. It was a little more than five miles round trip. Twelve hundred vertical. After yesterday, twenty-five hundred feet of vertical combined, my legs felt tired.
I've been looking at this one for the last couple of weeks. Or maybe it has been the last couple of years. At any rate, I decided to try it today. Here it is: One thousand three hundred vertical feet; about three miles round trip. I left the Chev by 3p and got back before full dark.
Yesterday I made a long trudge up a very old road in one of the side drainages in Center Creek. I had accidently discovered the road a year or two ago, but had not gone to the top because there was too much snow at the time. There was very little snow yesterday, so I kept going up. Eventually I lost all sign of the road (I doubt it has been used as a road for at least fifty years) and thrashed my way up a draw into the saddle. There I found a perfect basin with a wetland that may have been a small lake many years ago. It was beautiful, but I had to hurry down because darkness comes early in mid-November.
Earlier this week we had a burn planned for a ponderosa pine stand near Monticello, Utah. The day was partly cloudy and cool, so I wasn't sure we'd get it. But, after four or five hours of dragging fire through the woods, I think we achieved our objectives.
EDO likes to run a loop at the Parowan Front WMU. It is about seven miles long, so it is a good one for a Sunday when she has a little extra time. Today, she invited me. As I've mentioned, I can't run with her, so I ride the bike. I guess I need one-a-them-go-pros, because it is difficult to ride and make pictures at the same time. We finished in exactly one hour.
