That’s exactly what I said to the kids when I spotted this cat. “Look! A lion!”
Spotted him running through the oak brush, looked like maybe chasing a deer. After the kids spotted him my daughter started whistling at him and he stopped, turned and took a few strides our way. Then jumped up on a stump to get a better look at us over the oak brush. Sitting up proud and pretty at about 70 yards!
Of most interest at the site though, and what brought me here, is an arrastra, sitting all by itself in the bottom of a small canyon a mile or two from the mill. I’ve wanted to check it out ever since I was told about it years ago…
The three ‘chucks above, all got popped in less than 10 seconds. That AR is just a hoot in a target rich environment!
…I stumbled across a small mesa top site. Potsherds, flint chips, literal archaeology scattered on the ground…
…A simple idea… Drive from Wendover, straddling the Nevada/Utah border on I-80, to St. George in the SW corner of Utah, near the Arizona border. Drive from Wendover to St. George… on dirt…
After lunch at the Revenue mine, it was back on the trail to our next stop, the ghost town of Stateline. Stateline is one of the best ghost towns anywhere, too much to see in a short visit but we did our best!
…some winter pictures to take my mind off the heat and think happy thoughts of winter coyotes charging into the call. And hopefully do the same for you!
Heading down canyon was glorious, spring morning, canyon hike. Ruins soon started to appear along the canyon walls. The most interesting ones, I took the time to look at more closely…
“Under the settlement announced Monday by officials for Utah and Juab County and a number of environmental groups, the federal government agreed to reopen Granite Canyon, Toms Creek and Trout Creek roads in the Deep Creek Mountains.”
Last Thursday, after confirming with the BLM that the gates were in fact now open, I pointed the Jeep’s hood west…
As far as wildlife, we saw a bunch of deer, a lot of elk, a ton of turkeys, a few bears and four called in coyotes. I managed to get half way decent pictures of all of the above…
