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    Valentine's Day in the Northern Swell

    A few weeks ago some old friends spent the weekend in Price and we hit up a few spots in the northern San Rafael Swell on Valentine's Day. We entered the Swell via Cleveland and made our first stop in a small drainage coming off the northwest side of Cedar Mountain. There we checked out a fossilized dinosaur skeleton and some very cool and small pictographs.




    Michael and Bradley hiking up a canyon



    The rest of the gang following on the canyon rim



    Fossilized dinosaur



    Fossilized dinosaur bone



    Small pictographs near the dinosaur fossil



    Pictographs



    Pictographs



    Pictographs



    4Runner and Grand Cherokee off-road





    The next planned stop was at Hamburger Rocks, but during the drive I was surprised by how much water there was in Buckhorn Reservoir so we stopped to skip rocks.




    Skipping rocks at Buckhorn Reservoir



    Small island in Buckhorn Reservoir with the Wasatch Plateau in the background



    Buckhorn Reservoir





    At Hamburger Rocks I wasn't surprised at all to find some people already there. The weather felt more like April than February and we'd already seen a lot of people camping and enjoying the warm weather. The people we ran into were nice enough to share some Valentine's treats with our kids, but unkind enough to leave a fire burning when they left. I doused their coals with water and put the dogs back into the Jeep to keep them away from the food and litter they left behind.




    Jeep parked at Hamburger Rocks



    Bradley and Michael at Hamburger Rocks



    Boulder and Torrey hanging out in the back of the Jeep





    We stopped at Buckhorn Flat for a bathroom break on the way to the Wedge Overlook. None of Mike's family had been to the Wedge. We only stayed for a short while--long enough for me to take a single photo.




    Metal silhouettes on Buckhorn Flat, representing travelers on the Old Spanish Trail



    Indian slave



    Ze Vedge





    The sun was on its way down so we headed north and then made our way southeast up Cedar Mountain to the picnic area. There, we had a camp fire and cooked a dinner of bratwurst and hot dogs while the sun went down. At about 7,600' elevation I was surprised to see some snow still on the ground, but that made it easier to smother the fire before we left. ;)




    Distant Henry Mountains and Window Blind Peak



    Fire for cooking a dinner of bratwurst and hot dogs



    Sunset from Cedar Mountain picnic area



    Roasting marshmallows over coals





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    I like the silhouettes...are they new?

    I'm amazed that they are not shot full of holes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sandstone Addiction View Post
    I like the silhouettes...are they new?

    I'm amazed that they are not shot full of holes.
    I think they were installed during the last half of 2014. There are already a couple of bullet holes, and somebody tried to rip a couple of them out.
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