Sunday, Sep 13
Woke before my 7AM alarm so I was through with breakfast and out on Yagi once again to capture the rock formations along Wind River Canyon in the morning light.
This time, the canyon walls on the western side were illuminated by the rising sun:
The haze being a bit much, I turned Fiona northward on US20 and turned onto Birdseye Pass Road, I'd spotted it before and wanted to see what the pass looked like.
It wasn't much of a pass as the mountain itself wasn't that imposing looking once I got near the pass. Still, a nice little ride, mostly traversing private land and I would end up turning around when No Trespassing signs were posted on every available travel option.
Next, as I continued northward once back on US 20 was to check out the Boysen Dam area courtesy of trails and roads apparently built by either the Bureau of Reclamation as part of the dam project or by the BNSF railroad to allow maintenance of their rail line in the area.
The following pics are from several viewpoints, first from the Tamarask Campground area, then the immediate area around the dam which you can ride across. The remaining are pics downstream of the dam and around the reservoir from trails accessible from the dam.
It was closing on 3PM by now so I headed on back to the campsite which was close by and spent the rest of the afternoon resting/relaxing with this view in front of me:
Not a bad day of riding, but I think I'll be going to the Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area in Utah tomorrow. No great sunset conditions today either so no sunset pics!
4 comments:
The last shot is great, very relaxing view.
I remember the three short tunnels for cars, how many tunnels for the trains?
There’s at least three as well for the train CCjon, but I didn’t go hunting for them...such narrow looking openings for such large locomotives.
Nice sunrise photots of the cliffs in the gorge. I didn’t get much opportunity to explore as I was there for work and we worked 7 days per week (isn’t overtime great!). I remember that there were some hot springs south of the canyon...
Thanks RichardM, not sure re the hot springs but they’re probably closed anyways for covid19
Post a Comment