The Southern Utah Loop, Part II
So to finish off this trip, we had 2 more days to play and hike. After getting up an leaving Blanding we headed east to find House on Fire Ruin. I haven’t looked up the trail for this hike other then using Google Earth. It looked like a short walk from a pull out on the road so that is where we went. Found a trail heading toward the canyon to find our way down, but came to a problem, there was no trail going down. So we blazed our own following deer tracks down this steep hill. Markai wasn’t to happy with me at the time, but I told her think of the adventure we can tell someone about! She was ok once we got to the ruins! There was nobody around and we took our shots and did some exploring. However we only had the place to ourselves for about 20 mins before a big group of people showed up. That was our call to get outta there. I spotted some places to climb back up to our car and through the trees and slickrock we went. Markai was unhappy with me again, but we made it safe. We did find the trail about a mile down the road later, so all we did is shave off some hiking.
The next stop was Natural Bridges National Monument since it was about 20 miles away. We did a quick loop through and hiked only through one of the Bridges and took some pictures. It was the middle of the day so the light was nothing extra and the wind was blowing so we didn’t stay to long. After here we were thinking of heading to Lake Powell to ride the Ferry cross the Lake and head home a day early. As soon as we hit the highway I changed my mind and we decieded to go stay in Moab since we love it there. We made a couple stops on the way here, once was called Buttler Wash Ruins. It was a cool place to see some ruins at. I would love to be there in the rain though. There would be some sweet waterfalls comeing through, even an arch tunnel was there that would have a big waterfall coming out of it. Sometimes I just wish I had bad “rainy” weather. We were the only people here at this spot and I only new there were ruins here by seeing some on Google Earth when we were in Blanding. The sign on the road told you nothing, so it was a good thing I checked it out. After this we took a detour to Newspaper Rock to find a big wall of Indian writting. A few pictures there, then off to Moab. We took it easy that night and got up the next morning to drive though Arches National Park. I didn’t feel like doing much other then just going home. It was a long road trip that wasn’t supposed to happen, but since Mother Nature is a pain sometimes we got to see some neat stuff!
Now for the next adventure….
House on Fire Ruins and Butler Wash Ruins.
