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Water Canyon and Bruin Point
I went for a quick evening ride after work yesterday near East Carbon/Sunnyside. I parked the truck near the rodeo grounds just past Sunnyside, then unloaded the ATV and started riding. There was some rock art near where I started the ride, so I had to do the short hike to check it out.
Unloaded and ready to ride (sportin' a Bogley sticker now!)
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Pictographs
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Pictographs
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Petroglyphs
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The road through Whitmore Canyon is paved, but it's a graded dirt road through Water Canyon and for the climb up to Bruin Point. In Water Canyon there's an old aerial tram that hauled what they called "rock asphalt" from a mine about halfway up the canyon. Cable is still strung and ore buckets are still suspended (some a few hundred feet in the air), though the tram hasn't been in use for almost 80 years. I stopped briefly at the mine to check out the top end of the tram, then kept climbing up the steep road to Bruin Point.
The road in Whitmore Canyon
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Tram support structures in Water Canyon
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A suspended ore bucket
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Another support structure that I hiked up to
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"Rock asphalt"
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The tram where it crosses the canyon
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Zoom of an ore bucket about 200' overhead
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Mechanism at the top end of the tram
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More stuff at the top of the tram
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Tar/asphalt seeping out of the sandstone
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Just below the old mine site
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View into South Patterfore Canyon and the Right Fork of Whitmore Canyon
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Still climbing up to Bruin Point
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Almost to the top
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From Bruin Point, I rode northeast a short distance to check out a possible camp spot for an overnight ATV trip I'm planning for this summer. I also rode down the Dry Canyon road for a bit, but it was fully shaded and very cold, and I was wearing shorts and a t-shirt, so I turned around and headed back for the truck.
Bruin Point
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View from Bruin Point
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Looks like a nice place to camp
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A snow-filled chute north of Bruin Point
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On my way back through Sunnyside, I saw the desert bighorn sheep that often graze there. They are relatively tame compared to other bighorn I've seen in the San Rafael Swell. This is a pretty popular place for people to come watch the sheep.
Bighorn sheep near Sunnyside
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b30ylllJfw
Here are all the photos:
http://picasaweb.google.com/Dennis.U...yonBruinPoint#
And here's a Google Earth .KMZ file showing all the photo locations:
