That should work, it will be good to have you there. Are you in Salt Lake City now?
Skyline Overlook, Utah - May 29th to May 31st 2020 - View new thread
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No. Plan is to fly to SLC a day before.
Douglas Sherman
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I am definitely interested.Ben and I are meeting up at the Skyline Overlook in Utah on May 29th for a few days barring any Coronavirus issues or delays.
Our exact locations will be based on the weather at that time, but here is our basic plans.
Sunset at Skyline Overlook with night photography
Sunrise at Factory Butte with wildflowers hopefully
Sunset to Sunrise at Temple of the Sun and Moon with the Milky Way at night
Last Sunset/Sunrise flexible
If you are interested, please reply here.
Be aware that our night time plans totally depend on what the sky looks like, it needs to be at least partially clear. For the rest if it gets too cloudy, we can switch to B&W mode and go for moody photos!
Fantastic Douglas. Just tell us when you will be there and your preferred meet up place. If you need directions to Skyline, let me know. Actually here ya go
MonikaC
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There's also a Rodeway Inn in Caineville. I've stayed there when it was blowing up a storm in the Swell. They have a pool too (the cinderblocks holding the tarp over it had blown away in the wind.....)
That place looked closed when I drove by, but I have stayed there and in fact they gave me the map to Skyline. Worth a call anyway.
There are at least two maybe three. Dukes which has the best stakes I have eaten in Utah. But hey are closed for dinner now. Then there is a hamburger place called Stans which makes a great milk shake but so so hamburger. Then there is Bull mountain deli and pizza which I have not tried, I always thought it was a market.
Jeffrey
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Douglas, I would be thrilled if you showed up!
Douglas Sherman
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I really want to be there and meet you guys, Jeffrey and I am really looking forward to meeting you as well. The only thing that might screw this up is that I have a dentist appointment at 8:30 in the morning on the 28th. I had to postpone it once already because of the coronavirus. A couple of months back I had a root canal go bad and had to have the tooth pulled (the root was cracked). So I need to get a bridge. I also have a cleaning that day as well. I need to talk to the dentist to see if I can move it again.
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Douglas Sherman
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Thanks, Ben. I have to do some maneuvering with a dentist appointment on the 28th. As soon as I get that figured out I'll let you know.
rfkiii
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I just got back from Hanksville. It was in the low 80s, a lot warmer than it felt last time we were there two years ago in the first week of May. I didn't see any masks being worn anywhere in Hanksville except my own, a smattering of tourists and on a lone employee at the Shell station across from Duke's. I got some looks. Social distancing was hit/miss. Duke's is open for breakfast until 11 am but may be open all day by the time this trip happens.
Capitol Reef was pleasantly uncrowded not that it is crowded by any measure of the word. There were zero people at the Sun and Moon temples the morning I rolled up. There were zero people at the Cathedral Valley Overlook. There were a few groups in the campground. Nobody at the South Desert Overlook. As I got closer to the end of the loop on the river ford side about noon-ish, a few cars passed me by headed out towards Cathedral.
I was the only person at the Water Pocket Fold for about an hour until a group of two couples came along and stayed for 10 minutes. If you like solitude, COVID might be your friend.
I lost a lens cap over the edge at Skyline.
Capitol Reef was pleasantly uncrowded not that it is crowded by any measure of the word. There were zero people at the Sun and Moon temples the morning I rolled up. There were zero people at the Cathedral Valley Overlook. There were a few groups in the campground. Nobody at the South Desert Overlook. As I got closer to the end of the loop on the river ford side about noon-ish, a few cars passed me by headed out towards Cathedral.
I was the only person at the Water Pocket Fold for about an hour until a group of two couples came along and stayed for 10 minutes. If you like solitude, COVID might be your friend.
I lost a lens cap over the edge at Skyline.
Good report Rick wish I had been there
rfkiii
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We'll get together soon.
A couple of things for iphone users. Siri is available in and around Hanksville. It recognizes Factory Butte as a destination but not Coal Mine Road or skyline. Most of you probably have dedicated GPSs units anyway. While out on Coal Mine Road, I was able to mark the location of the faint road that leads to Ben's Nib location (faint as in hard to see pre-dawn) which in my opinion was a better location than the one we tried last time. But if you end the route, you can't get Siri back until you get closer to Hanksville again. My network is Spectrum which uses Verizon.
About where the faint road to the Nib is, there is a road going east toward Skyline providing a shortcut to the main road to Skyline.
A couple of things for iphone users. Siri is available in and around Hanksville. It recognizes Factory Butte as a destination but not Coal Mine Road or skyline. Most of you probably have dedicated GPSs units anyway. While out on Coal Mine Road, I was able to mark the location of the faint road that leads to Ben's Nib location (faint as in hard to see pre-dawn) which in my opinion was a better location than the one we tried last time. But if you end the route, you can't get Siri back until you get closer to Hanksville again. My network is Spectrum which uses Verizon.
About where the faint road to the Nib is, there is a road going east toward Skyline providing a shortcut to the main road to Skyline.
I marked that turnoff. You are right, hard to see ay dusk and I had found it during the day, I also missed the road coming back and ended up on a goat trail to the main Factory Butte Road.
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