Geocaching on the Trail

We set off for a day of Geocaching on the trail and our first stop brought us to the “original” UTV- Flintstone style!

Caleb explores the contents of one of our finds as we ride along the area known as the “maze” due to all the mining roads.

Geocaching is like modern day hide and seek using points on a GPS.

Blending in with the red rocks, the Palmer’s Penstemon is in full bloom.

After several geocache finds, we rode down towards the infamous Big Rock Candy Mountain.  The resort serves up great tasting BBQ which we enjoyed for dinner.

Another beautiful day in the Sevier river valley with highs in the upper 80’s!

Dry Creek to Manning Meadow Reservoir

A leisurely Sunday afternoon ride was in store for us!  We headed east of Marysvale to join up with the Paiute 01.

We planned on a short ride up Dry Creek.

Caleb rode for 26 miles!

Once again the scenery was spectacular, from pines and rock formations to aspen groves and wildflowers.

Once we reached the Dry Creek Guard Station, Caleb decided we weren’t really going on a short ride since that was our 26 mile mark!

The guard station is part of Fishlake National Forest.

With a change of guard on the ATV, we decided to continue on to Manning Meadow Reservoir.

At 9500 feet, the breeze was crisp and the reservoir was full.

Of course with a different RZR driver at the wheel, some mandatory wildflower stops were in order.

We traveled back down the way we came, along the Paiute 01 to the Marysvale 02.

In the passenger seat, Caleb wondered, “Are we there yet?”

60 miles later we arrived back at our abode after a beautiful ride!

Paiute Trail Work Day & More!

Saturday was Get Outdoors Day and the guys went to work on the Paiute trail.  While Caleb heaved trees out of the woods by hand, Chris applied RZR power!

They worked with Jim, the camp owner, and other volunteers building up a fence around a meadow.

There are some areas of the Paiute trail that are limited to 50” machines, so Chris and Caleb hiked up, up, up to the snow!

Back at camp, the foxes come out to play in the evening!  There are at least 7 and maybe 8 kits that are living in the culverts.

It seems they’ve gotten big enough to spread out, two to a culvert, while they wait for mama fox to bring back dinner.

We’ve put on close to 400 trail miles, discovering old mining cabins dating back to the late 1800’s.

The mines were primarily for silver and gold, but this mine was for Alunite.

The stone archway still stands, although the roof has since collapsed.  We were treated to an “insider’s ride” by the camp owner, Jim.

Caleb has been riding about 40 miles a day up to 11,000 feet elevation and his Honda 250 has been working great!

We’ve extended our stay from one week to two and know that we will return to this beautiful area!