Country Drive

Friday Ben, DJ and I decided to take a drive to some of our favorite places.....Avon Rd, Monte Cristo, Hardware Ranch and Logan Canyon. We wanted to see what the roads were like before we take the ATVs out.
We headed for Avon Rd which is up out of Liberty and takes you over to Cache Valley. It was closed so we went around Pineview Reservoir to Hwy. 39 and headed up towards Monte Cristo. We knew we probably wouldn't get all the way to Monte Cristo and sure enough the gate is still closed. They close it in the winter due to all the snow.
We headed towards Hardware Ranch on Ant Flat Rd. It was a beautiful, sunny day. The wet spring sure made for a wonderful, green landscape!

I just want to say real quick that these pictures aren't the greatest quality as most of them are taken through the windshield as we were driving!

Ant Flat Rd. heading towards Hardware Ranch

A burst of orange on the otherwise green landscape

Still Ant Flat Rd.

Hardware Ranch

Hardware Ranch is full of hills, canyons, open spaces and forests

Ben got tired of sitting in the car so he got out and ran.......

and ran...........

and ran!

We love getting out on these back country roads because it's so ruggedly beautiful and SO quiet

We were heading for Bear Lake Summit so we could check out Logan Canyon

We came across lots and lots of mud puddles :)

Entering a narrow canyon full of awesome rocks

Leaving that canyon

Oops.....the road has become a little river ~ we won't be getting to Logan Canyon that way! That means we have to turn around and go back through a little bit bigger river we had just crossed.

We stopped before going back through this looking to see if there was a shallower spot because it was a little unnerving the first time through! That first puddle was 2-3 ft. deep and the little river part was 3-4 ft. deep. The bad part is not knowing what the river bed is made up of......is it pretty rocky or soft mud?

Well, here goes...we had no choice but to go back the way we came. As I'm sure you know the best thing to do is just go and keep going. Don't slow down or stop.

Keep going!

The Man (that's what I call him :) is wonderful & we came through just fine

This poor guy didn't make it quite so good :(  He was trying to skirt around the mud but slid in anyway. There were several people stopped to help him and then a big truck came and pulled him out backwards.


All in all it was an adventure as always to get out and explore Northern Utah! We are looking forward to taking the ATV's out soon!

"Be exalted , O God, above the heavens, and let your glory be over all the earth."
~Psalm 108:5


~JanMarie