A full day of riding in high 20s-low 30s temperature through beautiful S.Utah's canyon country was the agenda for today. We started out in Capitol Reef Nat'l Park with its spectacular sandstone formations.
We stopped many times to ogle the scenery including the petroglyph (rock drawing) site (you may wish to click the below photo to get a better view).
At one stop was a sandstone cabin occupied by one of the areas settlers and his family of 10 - it was maybe 10X12 (apparently not everyone slept in the cabin - the boys slept in a hollow in the rock behind, the girls slept in the wagon bed and ma and pa and two babes slept inside- and none ate in there- no surprise!).
After exiting the park we took side trip to the Natural Bridges Nat'l monument to see some of the water carved arches over an old stream bed. Lots of hiking trails throughout the various parks and lots of people heading off on these trails. It would be a bit hot for a hike in our opinion.
The predominant stone of the area is erodible red sandstone which is even good for gouging out domiciles. This gas station/store was only about 10 x 10 inside but very cool.
Tonight we find ourselves in Cortez, Colorado after a great day's ride (we tried to ignore the gusty winds in the canyons and passes). We both really enjoy the red stone scenery.
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