After climbing one of the ridges, I turned around to see where I had come from – what a view!
I saw this and thought of my grandson and granddaughter who love to climb on their climbing wall. I wonder if some day their mom and dad will go climbing with them on something like this.
A lake and its history I found interesting. As settlers continued to more to the area, irrigation was required in the semi-arid climate. The Sevier River’s flow was interrupted and retained in storage reservoirs to such an extent that the lakebed has been usually dry since the turn of the century. Since the 1980’s 3,000 acres of first-phase solar evaporation ponds and an eight-mile brine collection canal have been built and salt deposited for competent pond floors in order to produce halite and potassium sulfate.
Today was a long 90-mile day. After the two climbs with some views, I rode 30+, miles seeing nothing other than what is in this picture. No trees, no wildlife except for an occasional bird and prairie dog. Fortunate Diane was SAGing for me, so I had a rest stop and companionship every 5-14 miles.
Tomorrow another long day heading to Payson, Utah.