Monday, March 04, 2013

Update

Ruth and Rodger have joined the Kadizzles at Roosevelt Lake.  The net result has been some serious hiking and exploring.  Today we went to a town called Young.  Young can be reached from our current camp site by going through the absolute middle of no where for about 75 miles.  On the back from young we revisited a waterfall we found last year.  Since boulders had fallen onto the road in many places the driving was tricky.  About a six hundred pound boulder appeared to block the road, but we managed to squeeze by it.  This was one of those mountain roads where if you go over the edge you are dead meat.

The gang thought we knew where to find an Indian site, but everyone was too tired from the day before to make the climb.  Yesterday we did an eight mile hike.  Yesterday's hike started at a hippie compound way up in another part of no where.  We drove eight miles up a dry creek bed until we got to the start of the trail.  At the beginning of the trail was Peter Bigfoots  ranch.  Peter Bigfoot teaches the old hippie skills from the sixties.  The Commander engaged Peter in conversation and found out our daughter's friend had stayed there for a couple years.

The Reavis Gap hike went through some nice terrain and followed some good creeks with running water.  Rodger and Kadizzle used our new filter to replenish Kadizzles water supply.  The cold water was tasty after the long hike.

Tomorrow the gang will attempt to find a very nice set of Indian ruins at Devil's Chasm.  It will be another hard eight mile hike.  To even get to the hike we will have to drive 23 miles on terrible roads. As a back up we will take the cycle.

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