coming up in this week's episode
i can see that front moving in the wind is picking up the clouds are moving in
luckily i saw a little bit of sunshine this morning because there may not be any for the
rest of the day i'm here in beautiful torrey utah just outside of capitol reef national park
i'm going to take care of some to do items before i get some breakfast going
this site had an amazing vibe and felt like home as soon as i arrived
nothing says home like a home-cooked meal
i make this breakfast a lot it's one of my go-to's it's good and it's good for you
bon appetit
they were actually calling for snow overnight and it did snow on the peaks surrounding the campsite
i was kind of hoping that i'd wake up to my little area here blanketed in snow however that did not
happen it is stormy though and it's supposed to be stormy all day today i arrived here in torrey utah
yesterday and when i got to town i went and did some laundry and i also took a nice long shower
oftentimes rv parks will allow non-guests to use the shower and laundry facilities for a fee
and it was worth it to me just to take a long hot shower i do have a shower and a toilet here in the
camper one of the things that was very important to me when selecting a rig was that it did have
a bathroom and a shower and i do use obviously the toilet and the shower but when you know when i can
or every once in a while i like to splurge on a nice long shower the drive here was incredible
i left the mexican hat area of utah and i took the moki dugway which tons of people have commented
to me about they say that i need to see that i didn't realize i was even on it until i was on it
and then i remembered this looks kind of familiar because i had checked it out before and it was
incredible you guys did not steer me wrong also i connected to scenic byway 95 highway 95 and i took
that for about 90 some odd miles there was no cell signal it was very remote back country driving
absolutely beautiful especially coming into the glen canyon recreational area and the height area
it really made me itch to get back in the backcountry backpacking it's the closest
i felt to backpacking while being in a car anyhow the reason that i'm here
is to visit the park tomorrow the weather's supposed to be much more favorable
so i'm going to go into the park and do a hike maybe get some awesome pie that they're famous for
inside the park and just enjoy my day i have not been back to capitol reef since 2019
i was there or i visited right after i hit the road full-time i mean it was one of my first
stops hitting the road full-time so it's been way too long and i'm super excited to get in
there tomorrow today is stormy as i mentioned so it's going to be a hanging around camp day
just cooking chilling not sure what i'm gonna have for dinner yet but i do have some ideas
i'm going to go ahead and set up this area for lounge mode it's also my guest
bed mode but it's lounge mode when i want to kick back and watch a movie
i can also lay in my bed and watch a movie but it's a little too early in the day for that
it's show time i set my computer up here on my utility drawer so that it's facing the lounge area
and i stream from my phone using my phone as a hot spot i have all the different streaming apps and
you do have to have sell signal in order to do that and i do have sell signal at this campsite
got my fuzzy blanket i'm all bundled up and ready to kick back and watch a movie on a rainy day
it's hailing
it's hailing here and the sun is shining over there
looks like there's a little bit of a break in
the storm so i'm going to take advantage of it and get outside
so
that didn't last very long it is very cold the wind is freezing my face is frozen and
it started raining again so here's what i got going on for dinner tonight chicken tenders just
season with some salt and pepper and garlic powder and some sweet potatoes and broccoli
i think i'm going to go ahead and call it a night here it's been a stormy day but a beautiful day
and i enjoy a good storm when i can sit inside my cozy little home and look at it from inside out
i'm excited to get this hike started in the morning so i'm going to get to bed early
get up early make myself a little lunch so i can have lunch on the trail and yeah
it's it's beautiful i'm really excited i will see you all in the morning good night
hey
it is a cold one this morning there are some snow
flurries a little bit of rain and i see a little rainbow right in front of me
but it is supposed to completely clear up i think it's going to be a beautiful day for a hike
capitol reef national park was designated a national monument on august 2nd 1937 by president
franklin d roosevelt to protect the area's colorful canyons ridges buttes and monoliths
there's no one else parked here this morning so that's a good sign
so
it felt amazing being back in utah hiking among these massive walls
gets warm quick when you're hiking i am currently on the grand wash trail it's a beautiful morning
beautiful blue sky and white puffy clouds
grand wash is a famous gorge that cuts its way through the upper portion of the water pocket fold
the majority of the nearly 100 mile long up thrust formation called the water pocket fold a rocky
spine extending from thousand lake mountain to lake powell is preserved within the park
i personally find this terrain and red rock landscape very beautiful
so i jumped on the cassidy arch trail from the ground wash trail is a closer trailhead
to get to this area but i took the long way and there aren't too many people here i'm
going to stop and have some lunch i made myself a sandwich brought orange it's a time to refuel
well that was a great hike it was just under nine miles i had to change because
it was much warmer than i had anticipated the ground wash portion of it is pretty easy
the only thing that makes it a little bit of a challenge is you're trudging through sand but it's
flat and it's not too bad the cassidy arch portion of the hike there is some you know decent amount
of climbing in a short period of time but it's not too not too difficult at all it felt really good
to get out on a nice hike and now i'm going to see if i can find some pie i think i've earned it
there was just a marmot crossing sign i had no idea there were marmots here
didn't feel like it was high enough in elevation because they like high elevation interesting
the capital reef natural history association in cooperation with the national park service
has renovated and refurnished the gifford farm house
as a cultural demonstration site to interpret the early mormon settlement of the fruita
valley today the historical homestead opens up to serve fresh baked goods to hungry travelers
the historic gifford house is famous for its pie and apparently they sell out so i would
recommend that you get there early it's about 2 30 in the afternoon and they are sold out they
just sold out because a man in front of me had three pies in his hands and yeah i'm out of luck
i'm back here all tucked in at my awesome little campsite i didn't leave anything to
hold my space here i took my chances and it was waiting for me when i got back which is awesome
i wasn't really too worried about it because i noticed that there were
several spaces around so i just thought i'd grab another one if this one wasn't here
i hope you enjoyed hanging out with me the last couple of days yesterday here at camp with all the
crazy weather which i feel like just added to the beauty and then today a little taste of capitol
reef national park it is definitely one of the lesser visited national parks and the trail this
morning when i started out i only saw a couple other people once i got to the cassidy arch trail
there were more but still not that many it was a really awesome day except for the fact that
there was no pie i'm still disappointed about that but i will live i will definitely live
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