Reflections From the Wilderness: August 2014

We enjoyed a few days in the Uintas near Whitney Reservoir. This has been a favorite camping place
for our family for years. We want to share our adventure. This camping spot was 125 miles from home.
We headed out Wednesday afternoon. We choose to travel through Weber Canyon and on to Evanston Wyoming. From there we traveled back into Utah and into the National Forest. We paid the required permit fees at the Ranger Station just inside the boundaries of the forest. There is a sign for the Whitney Lake turn off. This quickly turns into a dirt road. At approximately 4.5 mile, we turned south onto another dirt road. We believe this road will take you on a loop back to the main road, but we stayed here. We had a lovely camping spot in the trees. Walking about a half mile south of our campsite is a large beaver pond. It has two lodges on the edge. The stream is lined with willows and this in moose country. After setting up camp, we took our darling granddaughters on a walk. As we walked over a slight hill and the pond came into view, there are the far end of the pond was a large bull moose just heading into the willows for dinner. We took pictures and showed him respect.
The wild life was wonderful. We awoke the next morning to a couple of deer right across the road from us. There was chipmunks and squirrels. There were birds- hawks, woodpeckers and one yet to be identified bird in addition to all the common birds. The meadows were covered in wildflowers. The purples and yellows were stunning.

The Unidentified bird

We had so much fun with our grandchildren that were able to be there. We sang songs, played games, had secret hideouts, made Boondoggle and ate fantastic meals. It was the peak of the Perseid Meteor shower so we saw a few shooting stars.
Our notes to ourselves. If we come up on opening of the bow hunt again....leave on Friday! It was like the rat race finding us! While we loved our campsite, it was on the main road. We discovered a better site on a turnoff just east of our camping spot. We hope to be there next time.