Sunday, September 21, 2025

CLICK HERE* TUSHER MOUNTAIN with St. George Jeepers

We had a great trip from Beaver to the Tushar Mountains with the fall colors starting to show off!

I'm not sure we got a good count, but I think there were about 20 'Jeeps'

( with other assorted 4 wheel drive vehicles)

"Over there!"

A beautiful spot for a lunch stop

( just don't get too close to the edge!😉)

I never realized we had some red patches amongst the gold.

Then the red bushes fade out and we find this interesting terrain.

It was a delightful day, and we return home via US89 and

"The Big Rock Candy Mountain"

(The mountains named for the song are a little north of Marysvale, Utah)

The folk song was originally sung in the 1870's and since then many versions have cleaned it up and the most popular one was published in 1928.

In 1949 a sanitized version intended for children was re-recorded by

Burl Ives.

The popular refrain is :

"Oh, the buzzin' of the bees in the cigarette trees
The soda water fountain
Where the lemonade springs and the bluebird sings
In that Big Rock Candy Mountain."

And indeed, Marysville has a resort from 1928 to this day.

Since we are in Butch Cassidy Territory, we might as well catch a bite to eat

in Circleville, Utah.

The Cafe has pictures of all the famous outlaws.

A little further down the road was the Cassidy homestead.

Butch Cassidy was born in Beaver, Utah, but his family moved to Circleville.

Butch thought farming was too much work and he sought income from other sources.

A very enjoyable day, lots of gorgeous colors and good company.

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Friday, September 12, 2025

click here*Scenic Drives in Silverton and Ouray Colorado

Durango-Silverton Narrow Gauge Train

The train arrives in Silverton around noon-every day.

We drove to Silverton, arriving before the train so that

we did not have to fight the crowds.

After we do lunch and a bit of shopping,

we head off to a new (to us) area to explore.

The Silverton Ski Area.

We learn that it is Helicopter Skiing

The skiers take a chair lift over the top of a mountain and drop into this bowl.

Since it is summer ( and we don't ski) we enjoy the scenery on the way to the valley surrounded by the mountains.

Can you imagine skiing down this?

(I can't😉)

At the end of the road we find a small lake, patch of snow, and this lush valley.

I guess the helicopters can land easily here and collect the skiers who enjoy this extreme sport.

We just enjoy this gorgeous terrain and feel lucky to have 'found' it.

Owl Creek Pass

Scenic drive in the San Juan Mountains

(also known for its filming in True Grit)

Chimney Rock

A few places are starting to turn color.

At the end of a beautiful drive, we stop for Taco's.

We knew the food would be good when we saw the grease dripping

down the side of the building!🤣

Evidence of a bear visit to our campground during the night😫

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Sunday, September 7, 2025

Petroglyphs and Pictographs

SEGO CANYON

A nice surprise on our way to Colorado

We found some wonderful petroglyphs on this panel.

Just around the corner was this panel of pictographs.

Close to St George we have a pictograph called Red Man which is one of these life size pictographs on a rock wall which is hard to hike to. Here we saw perhaps 20 of these figures on just this one panel

3 snakes, horned figures - very interesting!

This was much easier to get to than Red Man!

(and there are such interesting rock formations all around here).

SEGO GHOST TOWN

Sego was a coal mining town in 1910, somewhat flourished until 1947 but always had to deal with a lack of water. When I-70 was finished the town was too.

This admin building was surprisingly large.