30 May 2003, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, UT: Again we decend, to the Fruita campground in Capital Reef NP. Dropping off the Puck, we head down the Notom-Bullfrog Trail to check out a primative campground called Cedar Mesa, only about 5 miles from our location the previous day in Long Canyon. After 8 miles of teethjarring washboard road, it is clear we will not be dragging the delicate trailer to this campsite. I get a local paper and discover to my surprise that we are in a recordbreaking Heat Wave! At only 5600', the Fruita camp is cooking and buggy with mosquitoes. |
