Hanksville

Leaving Boulder, going up through the aspen.
On the other side of the mountain - mesas.
Random moonscape. I have no idea how cows graze here.
Random house in the middle of nowhere.

Another beautiful day in Utah. We started with a climb to almost 10,000 again just outside the town of Boulder, UT. Then it was mostly downhill which was nice. It was freezing up top the mountain and then it stayed cool most of the day. It was great to see all the different changes in terrain, plants, etc throughout the day. The first mountain had streams, aspen and tons of pine, but as we came down, it turned more into desert and mesas with tons of great colored dunes and formations. We also went through Capital Reef park which was beautiful – although the park ranger was not so cool. He fined us for having an event in the park without a permit. Kind of bizarre. Utah has rules for everything. We had some crazy wind for about half the day. There were points where we were riding at 45 degree angles into the wind and where the wind pushed me over a lane. We also had some crazy headwinds where I would pedal as hard as possible and go about 4 or 5 mph. We’re camping out tonight in Hanksville which is in the middle of nowhere with great surroundings.