Monday, October 6, 2008

Golden Aspens and Pirate Ships

We spent the weekend up at the Forest Service cabin at Warner Lake and got to see the first big fall storm on the mountain. The colors were insane, the aspens are all peaking, the fish were ravenously feeding stocking up for the long winter and the elk were bugling. We were going to try and hike over to Miners Basin but the weather changed our plans. Today the peaks are all covered in snow and most of the leaves in the high country have blown off the trees. The season has changed.



Todd, Ashli and Creed were all out on a 130 mile bike ride (from Crescent Junction to Cisco down the river to the Loop Road and back to Crescent Junction) and were supposed to be stopping in Moab on Sunday, but with the weather moving in we decided to drive down and try and find them. As we got into Castle Valley we saw a pirate ship on the side of the road with a license plate saying "Pirates bury thier treasure deeper" and of course they were they were all under the ship seeking shelter from the storm. We gave them a ride back to Moab to warm up and they spent the night with us and rode back to thier car at Crescent Junction on Sunday.


On the trail to Miners Basin

Warner Lake Rainbow

The boys

Overwhelming fall colors

2 comments:

Newty said...

Just to let you know, if Obama wins all of those trout will then be endangered species, you won't be allowed into the mountains without paying huge fees and the fall colors fuggetaboutit, the trees will refuse to bestow there beauty on us because God created the trees and everyone knows he's Republican. Sorry if I crossed the line there. Just had to insert some politico into your day.

Anonymous said...

Does Newty the Long Hair realize that under McCain there will be no trees. That you will be able to fish under the hum of an oil rig next to your favorite lake. Anyone whos chant is Drill, Drill Drill, must be good for America. On the other hand I would not be to happy to see Obama ban motors in the GC. (I would be out of a job) or ban snowmobiles in Yellowstone. So many issues not so many good canidates.