Friday, April 22, 2011 - Jacob's Chair Trailhead, Fry Canyon UT
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Camped overlooking White Canyon, Fry Canyon UT, April 22, 2011
Jacob's Chair trailhead
This looks like a good place to spend the weekend. There's plenty of parking on the rocks at the edge of White Canyon with a great view downstream from my livingroom windows. And the of road vehicle trail/road heads down into and across the canyon right below me, making an easy walk down to the canyon floor. Time for a hike.
Night camp
Boondocked - Trailhead to Jacob's Chair, Fry Canyon UT
- Verizon cell phone and EVDO service - no signal
- Locate this camp on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Sell Them Down the River
Brown had in his camp a fine-looking Negro, who said he had run away from his master in Platte County, Missouri, because the man was going to sell him and his wife to a dealer who would take them south to the Louisiana sugar plantations. The average Missouri Negro looked upon being sold south as one or two degrees worse than being sent straight to hell. This viewpoint was fostered by the masters, who always threatened, when things went wrong, to sell them down the river. ...