We call it “Evening light through the edge of the tent set up in fresh grass”. 😊
Modern art
Try to guess where we are today!
That’s right! Dinosaur National Monument in Northeastern Utah, Northwestern Colorado.
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4349463,-109.3065144,14.4z?entry=ttu
One of the things they have preserved is a giant wall of bones. It’s an ancient stream bed that gathered A LOT of bones, then got uplifted and turned on its side. It’s a solid wall of fossilized dinosaur bones, left undisturbed.
Cool Place.
Without a trace!
Well, almost.
We’ve gone from St Vrain State Park and driven through the Colorado High Country.
Highway 14 through Walden and Steamboat Springs. Highway 40 to Yampa River State Park. Cameron Pass, Rabbit Ears Pass, and the Continental Divide.
To Yampa River State Park.
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4655098,-107.2658086,12z?entry=ttu
Morning light
Dinner at Becky and Brian’s
Conner and Ana, the two on the right, just got back from a three-week safari in Namibia. There were stories.
Evening light.
Morning coffee and a moose
It was a quiet morning until the moose staggered through our campsite followed by an escort of park rangers. The young guy made it through the pondside willows and fell into the lake.
We think the moose came from the area around Lyons, about 20 miles to the west northwest of here. He had been in the park for a couple days, and was just too close to the interstate highway for comfort, so they darted him. The tranquilization didn’t go exactly as planned because the moose made it to the water and had to be rescued while unconscious. They hauled him back to the shoreline and got him on a tarp.
They relocated the moose and tarp, first back to our campsite,
then into a horse trailer,
where he was left to wake up on his own
When he was awake and standing
they hauled him off and released him in the hills west of Boulder.