August 5,
2017
I fell
asleep and then I heard my humans playing a game. I came to them and they had all sorts of toys
on the table. I wanted to play too so I
jumped on the table. My paternal human
picked me up and put me on the floor!
How rude! I jumped on the chair
next to my maternal human. She wouldn’t
let me play on the table either. I even
turned on my purr box real high. So I
chased one of my own toys. Then I
scratched the couch… that ought to fix
‘em… they yelled!
I woke up
with a headache. DRUGS – NOW! Was it going to be the big one? It was close, but the drugs kicked in. I rested… Spouse slept in. We finally got moving around 8:30 just as
generator guy turned up the noise. We
took a hike to Singletree Falls. The
trailhead is in our campground. It was
not more than a mile roundtrip, but it was very steep and rocky. We are at roughly 9,000 feet elevation, so it
definitely got our hearts pounding!
It is a
narrow trail that winds across the ponderosa, through stands of aspens and
along a ridge with spectacular views of the rocky landscape. Did I mention it was steep? The waterfall cascaded onto the rocks then
down the canyon. Then we climbed back
up. It was steep…
Back
to Hannah, we made a good breakfast and by the time she was ready to leave, it
was already 11 am. Continuing east on
rte. 12, we wound our way through the piney mountains, coming down in
elevation. Then we saw them… the
vermillion cliffs of Capitol Reef National Park. We weren’t planning to go there. We need to turn left… The cliffs are screaming their presence! They command us to turn right. NOOOO!!!
They are demanding that we go to
them. But NO! We are going the other way. It was out of our control… The truck turned right. We were caught in their spell. We could not escape their seduction.
After a mere
30 miles of driving, we pulled into the campground at Capitol Reef. There are no hookups, and we were low on
water, so Spouse saw a spigot nearby and hooked up. As he is filling our tank, he thought he
better make sure the water is potable.
Normally it is marked if it is not potable, but NOT THIS TIME! The water was already in the tank and now the
tank is contaminated! ARGH! Spouse put some bleach in the tank. Then we disconnected and went cruising around,
giving the bleach some time to disinfect.
Capitol Reef
is not a big park. There are lots of
orchards, we picked some apples and pears.
There are some petroglyphs that we had seen before. We cruised out of the park and it looked like
a gray moonscape. We saw a town on the
map and thought we would check it out.
We put it in the GPS, she took us there… alas there was no town! We took a road for a few miles that would
have taken us 66 miles to Bullfrog marina at Lake Powell. We have been there in our boat, it would have
been a whole lot different coming by land, but we didn’t want to go that
far. We went back and dealt with our
water crisis.
We towed
Hannah over to the dump station. We
drained the bleachy tank. We filled the
tank and added bleach again. We drove
Hannah to slosh it around. We drained
her again. We filled her… if you don’t
hear from us, we are poisoned in Hannah somewhere in the wild west!
We
definitely needed a cocktail hour. A
deer came and visited us. Rudy kept his
eyes on her. We gave her some of our
apples that we picked. She liked
that. We ate dinner then decided to hike
the Cohab Trail to the lookout points. I
was told it is a good hike to do in the evening. There is a cloud cover, maybe even the threat
of a little rain, but the temps are in the 70s and there is a nice breeze.
The Cohab
Trail is across the street from the campground.
The first .3 of a mile is uphill…
steep uphill. We walk 200 steps,
then rest. Walk another 100 steps, then
rest. Our hearts are pounding. The elevation here is about 5400 feet. Slowly we climb. Four guys in their twenties hoofed it past us
at a brisk pace and they weren’t even breathing heavily. Whippersnappers… We continued our slow climb, then the trail
leveled out along a ridge. It then
winded around through a wash with pink sand, over rock faces, up and down. We then climbed up to the north lookout. From here, there are stunning views of the
valley below, as well as the buttes and mesas all around. Retracing our steps back, we got back to
Hannah at nearly 8:30. The deer was here
again. There was still a little
daylight, but we timed it just right.
Ok, Spouse
bought a new thermos. He loves this
thermos and filled it for our Cohab hike.
Given the length of the hike, we figured we could share the one
bottle. Which was almost ok… but Spouse
didn’t want to carry the weight of a full bottle so he didn’t fill it! And I didn’t know that until we were out of
water about half way down. Did you hear
me yell? Mr. Survivalist, Mr. Doesn’t go
to the bathroom without a GPS, Mr. never be unprepared… yeah, that guy wouldn’t
add a couple more ounces of water to the thermos…
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