Heading for the bad lands

Wednesday the 19th.

The ride today was from Diamondsville Utah
again through mountain passes and wide valleys, avoiding as much as possible the interstate freeways. The photo opposite is on a plateau on the way with a large canyon below and snow on the mountains opposite. It was windy and very cold, down to 7 degrees at times. We rugged up well. Ken kept the vehicle warm and we were worried about his responsibility in keeping the heat right as well as navigating and the ocassional country hit played over the two way for us, and all we had to do was ride and figure a way to keep out hands warm.umping out. I did have a white tail deer run along side me for several hundred meters today.

After Green River and lunch the ride warmed up and took us through a long canyon with steep hills on either side and some cattle ranching alongside the road. Very isolated and not exactly profitable ranches. Most riders said it was the best afternoons riding so far with the right mix of bends, hills, scenery, weather and light traffic and not too many deer jumping out in front of us. We are definately in low rainfall range land, which is a big change after the dense forrests and grassy valleys, but still often quite high in elevation. Today we passed through 9000 feet.

We finished in Price still in Utah. Tomorrow we should visit Brice Canyon and Arizona.