frosty Here’s another visit where our travel schedule didn’t fit the National Park schedule. The scenic park road goes from 6,700 ft to 8,500 ft elevation and the park gets up to 30 ft of snow, so the road usually doesn’t open for traffic until June. There’s a loophole, though. Anything that’s plowed and passable …
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On The Road – TKH – Sinai Trail Part 6
I am surprised (and delighted) by the enthusiastic response to the pictures from this trip. I guess that it is due to seeing pictures from a place that is so off the beaten track for one. Second, everybody knows of the Sinai from the Bible and probably has an image in their head of the …
On The Road – TKH – Sinai trail Pt. 5 Serabit El Khadem – Traces of the Ancients
TKH In Part 1 of this series while introducing the overall route of the hike, I had mentioned the ancient turquoise mine of Serabit El Khadem, one of our waypoints The explanatory information that follows is something that I have dug up on the internet post trip. I am a chemist by training and I …
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On The Road – Albatrossity – Westward 2019, installment 2
It’s Albatrossity Monday! We have two bonus OTR posts from the Sinai Trail, and finish up the week with two gorgeous parks. (click to see the larger, non-blurry version) Albatrossity After leaving the San Luis Valley of Colorado and heading west, I basically drove two days across a lot of gorgeous country, without stopping to …
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On The Road – TKH – Sinai Trail Pt. 4
TKH Fauna and flora of the Sinai. Let’s just say the Bedouin are not big on pets. There are some cats and dogs hanging around the settlements we passed through, but they were of the semi-feral variety it seemed to me. When food was served they would appear out of nowhere with the expectation of …
On The Road – TKH – Sinai Trail Pt. 3
TKH More pictures of geology and landscape
On The Road – TKH – Sinai Trail Part 2
TKH In Part 2 and 3 I will show some pictures of the scenery we walked through. I must confess that I really had no idea what to expect in terms of landscape and terrain before I started to do some background work while I was deciding whether this trip was for me or not. …