Saturday, April 23, 2011 - Jacob's Chair Trailhead, Fry Canyon UT
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Jacob's Chair from White Canyon, Fry Canyon UT, April 22, 2011
Gravel Crossing to Jacob's Chair butte
There are only a couple of places to cross White Canyon along here. Behind me in this picture, where I'm camped, is the one known as Gravel Crossing and is the trailhead for the popular OHV trail that encircles Jacob's Chair. Jacob's Chair was named after one of the first settlers in this area. He was killed in a flash flood in 1940 while crossing White Canyon on horseback.
Overcast
It's starting to look like rain. Think I'll delay any more hikes in the canyon until the skies clear.
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
They do not Intrude on Each Other
The San Francisco Mountain lies in northern Arizona, above Flagstaff, and its blue slopes and snowy summit entice the eye for a hundred miles across the desert. About its base lie the pine forests of the Navajos, where the great red-trunked trees live out their peaceful centuries in that sparkling air. The pinons and scrub begin only where the forest ends, where the country breaks into open, stony clearings and the surface of the earth cracks into deep canyons. The great pines stand at a considerable distance from each other. Each tree grows alone, murmurs alone, thinks alone. They do not intrude on each other. ...
The Song of the Lark, Willa Cather, p265, Houghton Mifflin Co paperback edition 1987