Views while Mountain Biking
Although it cleared last evening, it had become cloudy by morning, and got cloudier still by the time we finished breakfast, and soon started raining. I tried to start the generator, but it wouldn’t keep running. I noticed that the oil level light flashed as it was starting, so checked and saw that it was low on oil. We drove back to the highway where there is a service station, and bought a quart of oil, as well as a cup and a plastic bottle. I used these to change the oil (the generator only takes 250 mL, so it isn’t much) and it is running fine again.
We used our oven to make freshly baked biscuits and had soup in the trailer for lunch, as it was cool out. By the time we had finished it looked as if the weather was improving, so I got my bike ready and went for a ride down the dirt road which leaves from the campground. I travelled about 10 km towards the Green River, hoping that I would find some high viewpoint of the canyon, but didn’t have much success. The scenery was pretty with large buttes in the distance, junipers and pinion pines, and a lot of bare rock. Eventually the trail got so sandy and soft that it was very hard riding. I had to push up most of the small inclines, so at that point turned back.
On the return trip I could see a truck parked on the road in the distance. When I got to it, I found that there were two workmen in the truck sleeping. I think that they were supposed to be exploring for oil, at least that’s what the truck’s logo suggested. I imagine they were probably sleeping on company time.
By evening the sky was becoming quite clear. We lit the campfire tonight, and Enid roasted marshmallows. We sat outside until we finally got too chilly.