We have rain everyday here in Torrey. Not just a little bit either, but on and off every day, sometimes heavy, sometimes soft.
One day we have rainbows! I see them four different times and one is a double rainbow!
This one is the double rainbow, but I don’t have the upper one in the picture.
On the rainbow day I decide to go over the mountain to Boulder, to see the Anasazi Museum. In Torrey it’s 50 degrees, and the rain has stopped for now.
As we drive up the mountain the temperature begins to drop.
Aspen on the mountainside
After awhile we encounter thick fog. At the scenic overlook all I see is fog!
I wonder if I should turn back….?
No, I continue on. I’d really like to see that museum.
Next, we get rain, and I notice on my dash that the outside temperature continues to drop. 45 degrees. Hmmm.
After awhile, the rain begins to splotch on the windshield, looking suspiciously like sleet. Ewww.
I see that the temperature is now 38 degrees. It IS sleet! If I remember correctly, sleets buddies are frozen rain, snow, slush and ice, and I’m on Scenic Route 12, with 10% grades and sometimes not much next to the road except air.
I’m goin’ back baby!!
Today we head in the other direction…into the town of Loa, 18 miles down Hwy 24, to go to the hardware and grocery stores. Whoopee. 🙂
The only other exciting news…well, exciting to me anyway…is that my new winter coat arrived by UPS from LL Bean. I just love it. It’s mid-thigh (read ‘covers my butt’), is light weight but very warm, has a hood, inside cuffs, drawstring waist, deep pockets, double zipper and snaps too. It’s rain resistant (good thing around here), and it fits just right. I even love the color I picked…turquoise.
You can see it at llbean.com. It’s called ‘warmer winter coat’. Original, huh?
I’m a happy camper, even in the rain and cold. It’s supposed to be 37 degrees tonight! I don’t begrudge the rain. I’ve seen so much drought, it will be a long long time before I start shaking my fist at the raindrops.
Here are my traveling companions to say ‘HI!’
Joy
Shiloh. He is actually a lighter color than Joy, but you’d never know it by these photos.
Wandering Spirit 
It is just by chance that I am re-formatting the page that has pictures from the summit of Boulder Mountain looking to the north/northwest toward Torry and Loa. Some also of the Escalante Canyons and Calf Creek area north of Escalante, UT along UT12. You missed a great drive but doing it in the rain would not have provided many views.
Forgot to leave a link to the page: http://edwardfrey.com/biketrips/trip6.html IF you want to see what I was writing about.
Holy Moley Ed. You biked these 10% grades. And what year was this?
Today I can finally see the mountain tops around here and there is snow all over the highest ones. (Not the red ones). I bet it’s been there a couple of days and it won’t be melting anytime soon.
That was 1991 and that Tour was my last really big tour. I was also probably at my peak bicycling condition for that Tour. It was brutal with only two of us out of a group of maybe 50-60 that completed the entire route. Some guys chase young women during their mid-life crisis – I did bicycle tours. HA