Blue Sky, Yellow Leaves, Green River, and a Red Canyon

Ever since Kim and I met, she has heard the tales of Red Canyon and how much I love it. Finally, a couple days off school for fall break gave us the chance to sneak away. We ate like champs, slept like logs, and enjoyed the trip thoroughly, despite taking an extra hour and a half to get there thanks to one stuck semi, one semi that caught fire ahead of us on the freeway, and two wrong turns from our crackshot driver. Seems it's been longer since he drove to Flaming Gorge than he thought.

Our menu/itinerary was as follows:

Thursday

• Wake up, finish some work and left 10:00am
• Lunch was sandwiches on the road
• Arrive, stop by the overlook, find a campsite
• Dinner, tin-foil dinners, biscuits, hot chocolate
  

Friday

• Wake up, have oatmeal, hot chocolate, and biscuits
• Hike the river starting at the dam, 8.3 miles round trip
• Lunch, sandwiches on a rock by the river
• Come back, nap, lounge read
• Dinner, beef stew, biscuits, baked apples, hot chocolate

Saturday

• Breakfast, corned beef hash, biscuits, hot chocolate
• Pack up, hike the canyon rim trail
  
• Lunch at La Beau's in Garden City on the way home
  

Here are the pictures from the official trip photographer. Kim.

One of many delays, a truck that burned to the ground as we watched

And there she is, Flaming Gorge. Our first view.

A sample of the aspens that we're 100% amazing on the mountain sides.

Kim's photographic skill never ceases to amaze.

Hangin' by the fire.

We had the river to ourselves for the first couple of hours.

One of the highlights, a bald eagle chillin' on a tree by the river.

Lunch on the Green. Ain't nothin' better.

Our campsite at Meadow Park, about 5 miles from Red Canyon.

Spending our last morning at the overlook. Lovely as ever.