Picto Diary - 17 July 2018 - Four Pass Ride
LSDM FOUR PASS RIDE
Construction. Underside of riding. UT SR 248.
Begin four pass ride.
Wolf Creek, UT SR 35
Indian Canyon , US 191
Huntington Canyon, UT SR 31
Guardsman Pass, UT SR 224
Round trip: Low 300's miles
Joined by The Commodore and KAT, riding tandem in Commodore's Slingshot.
LSDM FOUR PASS RIDE
First pass: Wolf Creek. 9485 feet. UT SR 35. — inHanna, Utah.
LSDM FOUR PASS RIDE
When you're not particularly concerned about resale value. — in Duchesne
LSDM FOUR PASS RIDE
Bamberger Monument. US 191. Carbon County.
Simon Bamberger. Governor of Utah, 1918 to 1922. Utah's only Jewish Governor.
Indulging my affectation for obscure, remote monuments. — at Bamberger Monument.
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Second pass: Indian Canyon. 9144 feet. US 191. — at Indian Canyon.
LSDM FOUR PASS RIDE.
Groggs. Almost iconic Utah restaurant. Soon.
Not yet up there yet with:
Maddox, Brigham City
Mom's, Salina
Ray's Tavern, Green River
Shooting Star, Huntsville
Chic's Cafe, Heber City
— eating lunch at Groggs Pinnacle Brewing.
LSDM FOUR PASS RIDE.
ENERGY! COAL in abundance here in Emery County. Coal fired electricity is cheap. It doesn't penalize the poor and middle class like costly, inefficient wind or solar power does. Good that Utah hasn't done a Germany or a California and has kept its energy costs down.
UT SR 31. — at Huntington Power Plant.
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Pass #3. Eccles Pass (Huntington Canyon). 9655 feet. UT SR 31.
75 degrees. Nice. Hot as Hades 4000 feet down in the Sanpete valley below.
Powering through the curves on the nimble, throaty, Duc has a way of focusing the mind, crowding out the minutia.
KAT directing traffic at 10K feet?
Above: Poster for Snow College Summer Jazz Workshop. 17 July 2018.
At Fairview, intersection of UT SR 31 and US 89, I leave the four pass ride after three passes.
I head to Ephraim, UT, 20 miles south, where Bud, my grandson, attends the week long Snow College Jazz Workshop.
All of the workshop participants, but for Bud, age 12, are 18 or older. Bud's acceptance at the workshop was contingent on him having a chaperone for the evenings. I booked a room at the Willow Creek Inn in Ephraim. Bud's mother took him to Ephraim last night and stayed the night with him. Grandpa will pick up the slack for the next three nights.
During the days, grandpa looks to doing some exploring of the region on the Duc.
Above: Bud calls his Mom. Snow College. Ephraim, UT 17 July 2018.
Grandpa now in charge.
Addendum:
Thank you for sharing your pictures.
With love to you and Margaret,
ZIB,
New York City, NY
Sand hill cranes in Central Florida are gray colored with a red cap. Otherwise they look the same as Utah Sandhills cranes. They are very plentiful in Florida and not afraid of people; they will often walk down the street taking their sweet old time. You can usually get to within 20 feet of them before they will slowly walk away.
Nathans,
Orlando, FL