Re: CapeBuild's Cross Country Travel Log
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2022 8:45 pm
Thursday Sept 29
Started the day off hiking up a trail named Saddle Pass. It was not necessarily a lengthy trail but very steep (labeled "strenuous"). Provided a new vantage point rather than seeing it all from the car.
We then drove the Sage Creek Rim Road which is a loop of sorts from one portion of the park and connecting back. It's a dirt gravel road filled with tons of ridges which made for a really bumpy ride for 20 miles. I tried going fast, going slow, riding on the sides, in the middle.....my shocks were not happy. We saw bison (from a distance) quite a large population of prairie dogs and bighorn sheep... We saw this guy on a motorcycle rounding up a small herd of cattle.
We then came upon this town named Scenic......well it was more like a town that was and is now not. A ghost town. There was no one there except for maybe 1 or 2 houses and there was a post office. Certainly not a tourist attraction. Was very fascinating.
We leave here tomorrow and head into Wyoming to stay for a night near Buffalo at a free camp site.
John
Started the day off hiking up a trail named Saddle Pass. It was not necessarily a lengthy trail but very steep (labeled "strenuous"). Provided a new vantage point rather than seeing it all from the car.
We then drove the Sage Creek Rim Road which is a loop of sorts from one portion of the park and connecting back. It's a dirt gravel road filled with tons of ridges which made for a really bumpy ride for 20 miles. I tried going fast, going slow, riding on the sides, in the middle.....my shocks were not happy. We saw bison (from a distance) quite a large population of prairie dogs and bighorn sheep... We saw this guy on a motorcycle rounding up a small herd of cattle.
We then came upon this town named Scenic......well it was more like a town that was and is now not. A ghost town. There was no one there except for maybe 1 or 2 houses and there was a post office. Certainly not a tourist attraction. Was very fascinating.
We leave here tomorrow and head into Wyoming to stay for a night near Buffalo at a free camp site.
John