七月的那一天(又名东犹西科一日游）

Thursday night(July 12th) I suddenly felt like going on a short trip. Pulled out the map, and draw a 250 mile radius. Two candidates came up: the salt flats and the dinosaur/flaming gorge. Dropped an email to my boss that I am taking Friday off. The sun was already high when I woke up. 10am. By the time I loaded the camera gears, a camping chair, cooler, and other stuff, it's getting pretty warm already. I stopped by Costco to pick up a backup CF card, and bought a hotdog and a box of gaterade. I didn't know that's all the food I was gonna get that day. Otherwise I would have got more. As I headed to my car I knew where I was going. Salt Flats? No way, not in this sun. So Vernal it is. It would be a fun drive. I would drive past Jordanelle lake, took some mountain road to Vernal, have a drive-around in the Dinosaur Memorium, drive through the Flaming Gorge area, and get back via interstate highway. Here's the Jordanelle lake. Up the mountain is Park City. Typical great west scene: Onto the rural road: What would life be like living in such a dwelling: Yes this is a real picture of a real gas station/convenience store. These are hard to come by in the area. Take advantage of it when you see one. Liquid gold.
A scene in the hub city --Vernal of Eastern Utah. I found this place suspicious even from miles away. Turned out I my intuition is right: This is OHV heaven.



Those mountains in the background are the split mountains in the Dinosaur Memorium (I will call it park from now on). Half Dome. Entrance to Dinosaur.



Green River: I took an offroad trip to the blue mountain.
Another Half Dome.

Flaming Gorge bridge.
Flaming Gorge dam. It's getting dark.

Highway to the danger zone. Know what it's like driving in a heavy rain like this, with 32 miles worth of gas left? I had to shut off AC. You don't want to get stranded here. Help is HOURS away (that is, if you are lucky to see another car driving by and be able to stop it). The picture of the instrument panel is blurry because of low shutter speed. I did adjust the ISO and took another, but I like this better.
Light at the end of the tunnel. My car is pretty accurate when it comes to "xx miles to empty". Driving in the remote mountain area like this without fuel is the last thing you want. The sign of relief came when I saw traffic on the horizon. That's the I-80. I pulled over to a pump, had 8 miles to empty. Whew! I inserted some quarters into the payphone and called home. I should be due back home 3 and a half hour ago. 550 miles, with about 2 hours of off-roading, drove through 4 national forests. I ate that hotdog near Vernal while I was driving. Didn't bother to stop for food. A tip for those planning on a trip to Eastern Utah: the most scenic spot in the Dinosaur park is on the Colorado side, called echo park. I didn't have time to go there though.

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• great You Ji, thouroughly (sp?) enjoyed it !! -imo- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/30/2007 postreply 22:57:41

• how thorough? :-) -moab- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/31/2007 postreply 01:15:46

• let's say from the first letter to the very last :) -imo- ♂ (75 bytes) () 07/31/2007 postreply 12:09:45

• REALLY?! That's great! I know just a handful of people -moab- ♂ (32 bytes) () 07/31/2007 postreply 13:25:17

• 就是，具体好在哪儿，说说看：））） -DeepCreek- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/31/2007 postreply 08:25:15

• 嗯，DC总是循循善诱的样子。你的作业呢？ -moab- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/31/2007 postreply 10:54:02

• 不错，山脉好有气势 -北京西城区- ♀ (83 bytes) () 07/31/2007 postreply 04:15:00

• 粗犷的田野.俺去过那个Dinosaur Monument -王医生- ♂ (312 bytes) () 07/31/2007 postreply 09:45:11

• 医生去过不少地方啊 -moab- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/31/2007 postreply 11:21:44

• 一天玩了一大圈,很爽啊~~ -erdong- ♀ (20 bytes) () 07/31/2007 postreply 10:11:31

• 西城和erdong直言快语，I apprecitate, 不过 -moab- ♂ (146 bytes) () 07/31/2007 postreply 11:02:05

• 鼓励新人，忽悠老人，是本坛一贯方针政策 -北京西城区- ♀ (34 bytes) () 07/31/2007 postreply 11:12:49

• 还有rebate啊?　这么说我被忽悠了？:-) -moab- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/31/2007 postreply 11:20:58

• 是用你的D200拍的吗？可能图片大些细节会看得清晰很多。 -Chuchairen- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/31/2007 postreply 11:09:28

• 是, 9100最让我心动的是0.01秒的快门时滞和28-300焦距 -moab- ♂ (70 bytes) () 07/31/2007 postreply 11:25:17

• 我发现用Flickr，最好的效果是上原片尺寸，让Flickr把它压缩成1024x728. -chuchairen- ♂ (107 bytes) () 07/31/2007 postreply 11:45:18

• 那我下次试试。 谢谢。 -moab- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/31/2007 postreply 11:50:05

• 我怎么听说是先压缩再上到Flickr呢? -erdong- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/31/2007 postreply 11:50:58

• 我用MS Office的Picture Manager压缩再上到Flickr,效果不好。 -chuchairen- ♂ (32 bytes) () 07/31/2007 postreply 11:59:30

• 还有一点。我发觉把原片放到100%，细节而言，S9100的3M比5M，9M都好。 -Chuchairen- ♂ (24 bytes) () 07/31/2007 postreply 12:03:59

• 回复：还有一点。我发觉把原片放到100%，细节而言，S9100的3M比5M，9M都好。 -moab- ♂ (78 bytes) () 07/31/2007 postreply 13:19:43

• 我也喜欢这种说走就走的旅行,非常兴奋,拍的也好. -PY11- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/31/2007 postreply 12:28:05

• 呦，是我那半打老乡，好久不见。 -moab- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/31/2007 postreply 13:20:53

• 这趟开的够劲。 -山君- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/31/2007 postreply 13:27:14

• 我觉得还不错，你要没去可以考虑。去科州那边。 -moab- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/31/2007 postreply 13:43:49

• no numbers, and i don't know how to count. :-) -carnival- ♀ (263 bytes) () 07/31/2007 postreply 17:53:01

• sorry, that's somehting I am still trying to get used to. -moab- ♂ (235 bytes) () 07/31/2007 postreply 18:51:29

• 总算爬楼梯爬到这里了，这个我不同意：） -冬梦- ♀ (193 bytes) () 07/31/2007 postreply 20:08:55

• 我同意冬梦的意见:-) -erdong- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/31/2007 postreply 20:55:18

• 小陈你也跟着瞎起哄。 -moab- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/31/2007 postreply 23:46:40

• 瞎说：）） -冬梦- ♀ (90 bytes) () 08/01/2007 postreply 07:18:35

• 这个似乎很难有个定论... -Chuchairen- ♂ (42 bytes) () 07/31/2007 postreply 22:16:47

• 这不矛盾的：） -冬梦- ♀ (229 bytes) () 08/01/2007 postreply 06:38:59

• I don't know about you. When I take a photo -moab- ♂ (546 bytes) () 07/31/2007 postreply 23:19:47

• 这也非我原意：） -冬梦- ♀ (517 bytes) () 08/01/2007 postreply 06:51:11

• you are mental:))) -冬梦- ♀ (166 bytes) () 07/31/2007 postreply 20:15:16

• I knew I was gonna be very close to running out of gas. -moab- ♂ (46 bytes) () 07/31/2007 postreply 23:09:52

• flickr出了问题，把地图再贴一遍。 -moab- ♂ (75 bytes) () 08/01/2007 postreply 12:13:25