Guess the mileage game/Utah trip report (FINAL update post)

I assume this is a Kit Williams's (is this reference too obscure?) type thing. Or, should we decipher collectively on this post?

I can think of 50 (I think I got that right) reasons why the highway is lonely but more why it's not.

Looks like a wonderful adventure.

I'll stay tuned,

Colin

My guess is 1725 miles round trip.

Definitely did not go to Oregon but that would have been a great clue if I had known about it Only a badass cowboy would know about Kiger Mustangs

These horses were part of a larger group mixed with other colors and we encountered them at our boondock camp just across the Utah border. Eva got this shot on her optical zoom digital camera - as soon as I get access to her other photos I'll throw in a few more horse pictures in an upcoming update post.

Hahaha me too. I'm starting to realize it's going to be nearly impossible to limit it to one update per day haha.

Post #2 starts with a return for some more horse pictures for orrum




Can you see the little ones at each of the mare's feet? They were laying down and staying really still - probably to stay alive. We didn't see them until we looked at the pictures later.





This guy is battle tested for sure.




This is how Eva got the closeups without getting trampled




Looking back on the road traveled.









With Frisco on our minds we rolled over the last of the intermittant summits and their habit of interrupting long stretches of flat desert, and down into civilization and a welcome tank of gas. Still no Starbucks in sight though which was really troubling. East and south and east and south, and though a town that reminded us of sandwiches. South and east again and the landscape suddenly and dramically turned Red ... red as the rubys we found a short time later. We enjoyed the next three nights with her.






Ready for some rock pictures? Quite unexpectedly due to the disneyland-touristy-cartoonish nature of the local businesses, we discovered an actual serious rock shop close by. After making our way through the hoards of European tourists and their Cruise America rv's, we strolled across the street to the rock shop. Through the store with it's shelves and bins bulging with trinkets for the tourists; septarian bookends and sandstone carvings, dyed blue and purple tumbled and sliced agates, and outside past oodles of AZ petrified wood and bins of over-priced common rock, and out to the far back yard where large rough rock piles lay ... entirely ignored by the tourists. We emerged carrying a 34 lb dinosaur bone which we shot them an offer for literally pennies on the dollar and they happily accepted. Yes they knew what it was - it had been part of a "not for sale" museum of sorts which had fallen to ruin a long time ago. It's too large for my 18" saw but shows tantalizing cell structure the whole length. Could turn out to be a complete dud - it wouldn't be the first time I bought a dud dino bone but it was worth the risk.












Also after wading through a bin full of junk picture jasper I found this little nugget of Gem Owyhee that has the potential to be quite nice inside if the dentrites and expecially the deep red continues.




After a killer lunch, a hike/walk to the edge and back... 




... and some drive-by sight seeing ...




We called it a day...



Get your guesses in ... you can guess again with each new update I post.

1262 miles

Post #3 - today we walked farther than we drove.





























Just in case you still haven't figured out where we are, one clue for you. We began our hike down into the canyon at the top center line of trees and at this point our butts were playing Peek-a-boo with the trail.










Them dogs are BARKING! haha

Awesome pictures & trip report. It looks like someone was extremely amazed by Bryce & would have made Kodak rich back in the day!
Funny, just 2 days ago I was looking at Bryce Canyon via Google Earth. I was looking at that exact spot you photographed with the Navajo Loop trail sign. Today I went back to Google Earth to that spot & clicked the Streetview guy icon. Sure enough, you can walk that trail over the internet! It's only still images, and they're giving me some dead ends, but that could just be my computer.
Lynn

You're welcome Bill! Those were some purty horses - and curious too. They came right up fairly close to us before we even knew they were there. Charley saw them before we did haha.

You get one new guess each time I post a new update - we are on the third update so someone could have guessed three times by now. I'll stop the game and let everyone know if anyone guesses the exact number.

Tommy