Yes there is a road in Utah called Hells Backbone and I know why!! Thank the Lord I was driving it during daylight hours! I was driving this ridge overlooking these gorgeous canyons that I had just driven through and as I drove up I looked to the right..couldn't see a thing for miles out my window...ie NOTHING on the side of the road!! Just the couple thousand foot drop into the canyon!! That was a quick glance!! I kept looking ahead to find that the road literally just disappeared into thin air! Blue sky to the right, left and straight ahead on the road!! Wow!! that was a steep decline from there!
The view out my passenger side window into the canyon below...If you can see in the side mirror that road just disappears 1 foot away from the white line....I was hugging the double yellow lines in the middle!!
Drove through the canyonlands to a vista which had a sign pointing out a few mountains in the distance! The sign said that the amount of land I was looking at would fit the ENTIRE STATE OF CT!! I was looking at a HUGE piece of land!! Wow!! And the view was fairly clear.
This is only one of 5 pictures I took of the panorama!
Boulder UTAH, Not CO!! Last town to receive its mail via pack mule in 1930!!!
Then I drove on to Capitol Reef National Park in UTAH? Huh? never heard of it? me neither? Why is there a reef in UTAH and what does it have to do with the capitol of anything? Well... It is a huge Ridgeline of uplifted rock that the explorers and pioneers had trouble getting over. Since we were originally a seafaring community they called it a reef since those are impassible when in a boat. Plus it had these huge white domes...hence...Capitol Reef!!
Geologically and esthetically speaking SW UTAH was AWESOME!!! Definitely not safe to have a geologist driving through the area with a camera!! I highly recommend the trip!!
Can someone explain to me why a cow would want to be here let alone me having to worry about them crossing? This sign was right near the picture below!!
Does something here looking inviting to eat if you were a cow?
This one makes more sense!!
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