It’s still the weekend, so another relaxing day. After breakfast (which finished at the unearthly hour of 0900) we headed out for a scenic drive through the mountains to our destination Nephi, UT.
We made a pit stop for coffee as the hotel stuff was pretty poor, then onto the scenic route. It didn’t take too long to realise we were off the beaten track; there was a cowboy walking with a couple of horses down the side of the road. Just beyond him on a curve was a guy waving an orange flag out of the window of his pickup. I assumed he was warning drivers of the horses ahead. WRONG! as we came around the corner, having not slowed down, this is what we saw
Having been caught in a similar situation last year in Australia where the appropriate behaviour was to drive through the crowd, we applied the same rule here. It worked, no sheep were hurt during our trip! By the way the “S” word is not sheep, that comes later.
Our first route was the Mirror Lake Highway, the pictures can do the talking.
Pretty High at the Top of the Pass
The “S” Word on the Mountains
The second run was in the Mt Nebo area. After dropping down from over 10,000 ft to around 7500 ft we climbed back up to 9500 ft on this run. The temperature at 6000 ft reached 29C (85F) and dropped to 15C (59F) at the peak.
The last 3 pictures were taken with the phone as the camera died! Once at the hotel I started “playing” with the camera, and the problem turned out to be a deceased memory card. Luckily the card had the good grace to die in such a state that allowed me to recover all the previous pictures.
Off to do more planning.