24th August 2007
Torrey to Casper, Wyoming
I actually managed to get a reasonable start and was on the road by 9:30, only a whole day late!
To make up for that I planned a longish day to Casper, 629 miles.
On this trip I had hoped to kep the daily mileage under 400 miles so that I could stop and look at things along the way, hopefully this will be
the longest day of the trip.
No good trip can start without a ride over Sweeper Madness, it was very hazy this morning.
© Bob Palin 2007
The rabbit brush is in full bloom on the higher slopes.
© Bob Palin 2007
Blue Mountain near Dinosaur National Monument.
© Bob Palin 2007
The white and yellow rocks (Park City and Weber formations) were deposited starting 190 million years ago from distant ancient hills.
The Weber formation was a vast area of sand dunes with the Park City rocks laying under a later shallow ocean. The layers were uplifted 55 million years ago
and since then most of the Park City layer has been eroded away from Blue Mountain. There endeth today's geology lesson...
Musket Springs - named that in 1776 by two Spanish monks who were looking for a new route west to the California missions
© Bob Palin 2007
Oh look - there they are!
© Bob Palin 2007
"We continued for a quarter league in the same direction along a well beaten path near which, toward the south, two
copious springs of the finest water rise, a musket shot apart from each other,
which we named Las Fuentes de Santa Clara" - Fray Silvestre Velez de Escalante, September 13th, 1776
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