After leaving Nine Mile Canyon we spent two days in Price, UT. Stayed in a non-descript RV Park to wash us and clothes plus dump tanks, take on water and get food. Then down Hwy 10 to Castle Dale. Here we left the pavement and headed for The Wedge. The road in was like pavement though. Some mining operation kept the road smooth as silk till maybe 10 miles before The Wedge. The rest of the way in was a more normal dirt road.

The Wedge overlooks Utah's Little Grand Canyon. The road ends at a 1200' drop into the Canyon. Well, not ends but goes along the rim some distance, but "drop" sounds way more dramatic. The views are quite spectacular.

And an 180 degree landscape view.

One of the best parts of The Wedge is the camping. There are many places along the rim open for boondocking. We set up camp near the edge of the rim and stayed for two nights. (and yes, we did pickup a drone along the way. now to learn how to fly it!)

It was windy but also very hot, not quite hot enough to fire up the generator for A/C though. The second afternoon it threatened rain but only sprinkled. Those thunder clouds brought is some serious winds though. We did a little hiking and a little off-roading with Waldo. Good times.

The Wedge road naturally led us to Buckhorn Draw, a major canyon going towards Interstate 70 to the south. There are twenty or thirty dispersed campsites along Buckhorn Draw. They are spread out although close to the road. Still much better than a crowded KOA is some town and we had our own canyon leading out of camp. We spent three nights camped here. It really was a great campsite, particularly during the week.

Hugh thought the road through Buckhorn Draw would be a slow dirt road. To our surprise it was a wide packed gravel road. A little washroard but 30-40 mph not a problem. No trouble at all for Ziggy, or any other street vehicle.

We hiked a slot canyon, Furniture Wash, off of Buckhorn Wash. Even in the morning it was hot. In fact it was so hot Remy started drinking from a water bottle, first time. This is a good skill to have to avoid dying on any of Denise's death marches. But on this hike we were blocked near the beginning of the slot due to several boulders. Would have been very hard for us to scale, but with Remy it wasn't doable.

Also stopped at the Buckhorn Panel, a famous pictrograph/petroglyph site. The pictrographs, painted figures, were made by Barrier Canyon Culture, desert archaic, (2000-4000 years ago). These are the "large red, ghost-like figures with broad shoulders and no legs, often featuring detailed, inner-body patterns and antennas, indicating shamanistic, ceremonial, or religious purposes." [quoted from some quality reference]. For paintings they've held up well for a very long time.

In this panel the pictrographs are mixed with more modern petroglyphs from "The Fremont Culture dated roughly 1,000 years ago include classic Fremont-style trapezoidal human figures, bighorn sheep, and atlatl carvings". [likely the same scholarly reference].

Going further back in history there's a dino track.

On down the road we passed the swinging bridge and campground. This is where the San Rafael River, coming from Utah's Little Grand Canyon crosses the road Buckhorn Wash road.

Past the river the road leaves the canyon/wash and travels south to Interstate 70. You can see below how much dust we picked up in the last week. You can't quite see it but there is a plastic bag taped over Waldo's passenger window. The crank driven up/down went caput. More later. The pic below is looking back towards Buckhorn Draw as we neared I70.

Finally a straght shot down I70 back to Green River to regroup.

It's been a long and dusty trail, just ask Remy.