ugly
01-12-2006, 08:33 PM
Hello everyone! Those who are local to Utah are some of the luckiest people.
I am a young man who has had the privilege to live in most parts of the US and visit the rest. I have myself pretty well locked into Oklahoma currently. I wish I didn't but life has trapped my here for the time being.
I slave for the company store 50 weeks a year so my outdoors adventures are few and far between. A few years ago I took a whirlwind road trip through the Mid West and Utah has the best sites. I have managed to hook my wife on the love of outdoors and hope to have more adventures in the future.
My wife has become very fascinated with caves since I have drug her into a few of the more structured and guided locals. I have been telling her how much more spectacular and unique the feelings are when the caves aren't back lit with a park ranger spinning a yarn for you. I was trying to relate to her my first experience spelunking and I couldn't remember where it was.
I thought a detailed Internet search may find it but to no avail. There seems to be a great deal of experience here though so maybe someone can help me with my memory.
I was a young child at the time (hence my poor memory) but let me relate some details and see if anyone can pinpoint where I was. I don't remember much so lets see how this goes. I was living in Green River, WY at the time and I know that this trip went a short way into Utah. I believe we traveled south of Green River but I can't be sure. I remember that the opening to the cave was close to a seemingly deserted road but that there was a moderate creek or river between the cave and the road. It was a desolate area in a narrow canyon. I think that the opening of the cave was not only across the creek but also up a steep side immediately across the creek. The opening I remember even as a child was long and low, enough so that even my being small I had to crawl through a ways before we were able to stand. We went in the winter I believe due to it being impassable when the water came. I don't remember much of the interior, I recall the most impressive of the sites. There was a very large domed room with what looked to be a large body of water and a fine rock or sandy floor to it.
If this is a common cave or any place one might recognize it would be cool to know where I was. I was just reminiscing and was wanting to put a location with a memory. It is a place I would like to revisit sometime in my life.
I'm afraid I will be just as the kid from back East and will loom around silently brooding over the good fortune of those living in Gods Country. :hail2thechief: :roflol: :hail2thechief: :roflol:
I hiked the Grand Canyon a couple years ago, we did the Havasupi area and it was the greatest trip. I want to plan another in the fall this year, I am thinking a return trip to Zion this year would be great. We hiked a good ways up the Narrow on the road trip we took. But I liked the write up of the top down trip someone took!
Later,
Brian
I am a young man who has had the privilege to live in most parts of the US and visit the rest. I have myself pretty well locked into Oklahoma currently. I wish I didn't but life has trapped my here for the time being.
I slave for the company store 50 weeks a year so my outdoors adventures are few and far between. A few years ago I took a whirlwind road trip through the Mid West and Utah has the best sites. I have managed to hook my wife on the love of outdoors and hope to have more adventures in the future.
My wife has become very fascinated with caves since I have drug her into a few of the more structured and guided locals. I have been telling her how much more spectacular and unique the feelings are when the caves aren't back lit with a park ranger spinning a yarn for you. I was trying to relate to her my first experience spelunking and I couldn't remember where it was.
I thought a detailed Internet search may find it but to no avail. There seems to be a great deal of experience here though so maybe someone can help me with my memory.
I was a young child at the time (hence my poor memory) but let me relate some details and see if anyone can pinpoint where I was. I don't remember much so lets see how this goes. I was living in Green River, WY at the time and I know that this trip went a short way into Utah. I believe we traveled south of Green River but I can't be sure. I remember that the opening to the cave was close to a seemingly deserted road but that there was a moderate creek or river between the cave and the road. It was a desolate area in a narrow canyon. I think that the opening of the cave was not only across the creek but also up a steep side immediately across the creek. The opening I remember even as a child was long and low, enough so that even my being small I had to crawl through a ways before we were able to stand. We went in the winter I believe due to it being impassable when the water came. I don't remember much of the interior, I recall the most impressive of the sites. There was a very large domed room with what looked to be a large body of water and a fine rock or sandy floor to it.
If this is a common cave or any place one might recognize it would be cool to know where I was. I was just reminiscing and was wanting to put a location with a memory. It is a place I would like to revisit sometime in my life.
I'm afraid I will be just as the kid from back East and will loom around silently brooding over the good fortune of those living in Gods Country. :hail2thechief: :roflol: :hail2thechief: :roflol:
I hiked the Grand Canyon a couple years ago, we did the Havasupi area and it was the greatest trip. I want to plan another in the fall this year, I am thinking a return trip to Zion this year would be great. We hiked a good ways up the Narrow on the road trip we took. But I liked the write up of the top down trip someone took!
Later,
Brian