Thursday, July 12, 2012

City of Rocks Day 2




Thursday July 12 2012

It was another hoooooooooooooot day but about 35 tough cookie endurance riders still hit the trail today. I quit looking at the thermometer when it reached 98.6*.

We had another fire/smoke scare - a cloud of smoke rose above a different mountain, and soon the smoke in the valley was quite thick. Steph had been out looking over tomorrow's trail on the ATV and came back in a panic because the smoke was so thick. We called the BLM and found out the fire was way off in Utah - just funny how smoke can make you think the fire is just around the corner.

Tomorrow's forecast is about 10 degrees cooler - hallelujah! Saturday's forecast is for 82 degrees and 60% chance of thunderstorms (eek!).

Lynne White and Otis, on Otis's first trail ride in Castle Creek State Park.

Connie and Finneas at a water stop near Bread Loaves

Up top:
Dave Rabe and Karen Chaton in Castle Creek State Park.

Day 3 tomorrow!

2 comments:

  1. Glad the fire turned out to be far away!

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  2. Heat and smoke. Not the best combination, but you guys are too tough to let something like that stop you!! Way to go, everyone.

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