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Utah #38

Reluctantly, after a few days, we leave our retreat in the mountains. We have decided to cross the Manti-La Sal National Forest in one day, but having the option to stop off in any paradise that attracts us. The trip was 36 miles here and there will be 36 more miles, maybe more.  This time, all of the roads are winding, graded dirt roads, marked with small signs with numbers in an unknown wilderness.

There is something, that is very much here, on top of the bear. Amongst the miles of the forest of trees, hills and mountain tops, there are views across the canyon lands below. We investigate a few trailheads, which lead down into even more remote canyons with their ruins and surprises and sense of adventure. There are other places we note for a possible camp, if we feel like it, sometime. There is that wonderful exploratory sense of the mystery around the next bend and one bend leads to another.

We drive out to the road and then it meets the actual main route, which is one of many that web their way through these mountains. A series of these links will have us on the other side of the mountain range in the Blue Mountain area.

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Utah #37

Getting prepared to leave….

We’ve been in this lovely spot, just content. There is nobody around to impose on us. The weather is pleasant, blue skies are above the canopy of the local trees. No bramble, just grass and pine needles to walk comfortably upon with naked feet, no threats, no concerns. We are living with no clothing needs, not even shoes in camp, or to stroll down the two track trail that leads off to the main road. We call it the “main road,” but it is only a sometimes graded walkway that ultimately, in five days, we see only three cars drive by, once as they pass and once as they leave. 

A walk seems right once or twice a day, sometimes short through the forest. Sometimes we’ll gather up a couple of bottles of water and walk further in our moccasin-like toe shoes. During the longer walks, we’ll have a cover-up tucked under a shoulder strap. The covering may or may not be wise, but just in case. It is just something for sun protection, to sit down upon, or the off chance, actually nil, that someone might drive by and be a problem. I could suppose in an emergency, it might be a warm covering, or a tourniquet. It might be something to distract, or armor against wild beast attack. It might be wetted to cool, or clean a wound, or brush off dust, or mud. It might be many things, but in all likelihood, being natural and vulnerable, naked in nature is none of those experiences and a piece of cloth can be done without.  

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