We made a bunch of pictures today. I used two of them in the first post. But, as I looked through the rest I found a pair of beauties. I really like the downed log with the big toothed maple (above). But, the show stopper is the one of VSO (below). She is gorgeous: A supermodel in the canyon.
Today we went all the way up Grad Canyon to the bottom of the big wall. There is some difficult fourth-class scrambling, but VSO has the moves. On the way down, she took the camera to make a picture of me slack lining on a peeled pondo.
I have never liked the plastic skirting added to many modern vehicles. About the only thing it is good for is to be torn off the first time you cross a wash. GC2 came with two levels of plastic. The top one was (is) integrated into the bumper and housed a pair of fog lights. The fog lights have never worked since we bought the truck (and I've never encountered fog in southern Utah), but there didn't seem to be any reason to mess with the plastic. Until now. With a few of the (plastic) snaps broken, the skirting has been blowing in the wind. I repaired it by cutting it off with a pair of tin snips.
Last week, I got a call from the weather channel asking about fall colors on the Manti-La Sal. I know nothing about TV so I don’t know how this works? Is there a programming segment where leaf peepers are encouraged to travel from state to state? At any rate, I told the caller that, suprisingly, the aspen groves up high, along the ridges and mountain peaks, were mostly green, maybe only 5% of them showing fall color. Down low, on the other hand, in some of the canyons, up to 50% of the trees were starting to change. “Well,” he said, “how about we say 20 to 30 percent?” “Yep,” I replied, “sounds good.” This is TV after all.
Utah is a large state. But that hasn't stopped VSO. About the only city in Utah she hasn't visited since Saturday is Moab. She started at the marathon in Logan, then went for a hike in Blacksmith Fork (above), then saw Hiatt at Red Butte (below), and then drove to Price.
From there she went to the Escalante Canyons Art Festival (below) and is on her way to St. George for an art show at Zions Bank. To paraphrase Stegner, she is a consumer of transportation.
