Re: Utah Day 1

sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> wrote:

We stayed the first part of the Utah trip in the town of Cannonville, UT
at an RJourney park.  I believe these RJourney parks used to be KOA
places, but I'm not entirely sure.  It's right on Utah 12 and is only a
10 minute drive or so to Bryce Canyon.  I thought the place was just
fine.  Reasonably priced, with clean bathrooms and showers, laundry, and
firewood available.
 
The one bad thing about this place was the terrible internet service
they had. 

It’s actually wi-fi service (I’m sure you know) and you’ll be hard pressed
to find an RV park with decent wi-fi. Even the ones with a fee aren’t
anything to write home about.

I've had similar things happen in hotels with an older laptop

I have, but it just would not connect my laptop.  I contacted their
support and they were unable to assign my MAC address for some reason or
another they couldn't explain.  So I could not use the laptop, wife
could not get her Android to hook up, and I had to log back in with a
new Iphone ever 5 minutes or so.  The hook up to the network was just
fine, but the damn provider they had with the ridiculous sign on to get
to the internet was horrible.  Trying to plan routes and do all the
things we take for granted these days become very apparent when you
can't get on the internet.  Oh well. Here's a few pics of the little
campground.
 
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Night time temps were a little warmer than our previous nights.  It was
around 38-40F or lows, and quickly warmed up in the morning.  I watched
the sun rise over the hill each morning and really enjoyed that.   We
did have to run the heater every night we were on the trip, used the gas
for hot water and taking showers, and cooked on the weber grill.  I was
amazed that I managed the whole trip, even with having to have the heat
on, without having to refill the tank and am just above 1/4 on the LP
tank level.  Seemed very efficient to me for 15 nights of heat.
 
After three days of driving and acclimating to the elevation, we decided
the first day to take a nice easy hike.  We were both ready to move and
do some walking.  We headed to Bryce Canyon just up the road and did the
Queens Garden/Navajo Loop hike.  This is probably the most popular of
all the hikes in Bryce because it only has about 600 feet of climb and
is just shy of 3.5 miles in length.  Unfortunately, that means you will
most likely have plenty of company.  As we were so early in the season,
it wasn't overcrowded, but the 80F temps did bring out many people.
The trail shows a little of everything Bryce is famous for...
 
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And on this trail everyone talks about the small section of switchbacks
 
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Which were really not much to worry about.  Still, the knee swelled up a
bit and we decided we'd do a day of hiking, and then a day of
off-roading from then on and hope I could keep up.  Fortunately, my wife
coddled me for the rest of the hiking.
 
Here's the track of the loop we did.
 
<https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6dflotom9t8a7t7q53ngm/NavajoTrack.jpg?rlkey=6301en5z0qozaqewo83uhbj16&dl=0>
 
It was a great start at seeing the area again and the weather was perfect!
 
 

 Nicereport and photos. As has been said here, it’s hard to not find beauty
in Utah.