Joel managed to find a great vantage point overlooking the Green River and was snapping away as the sun rose. If you look very closely, you can see two campers sitting on lounge chairs at the end of the sandbar – obviously part of a canoe or raft group, enjoying the spectacular sunrise from a very different vantage point. Looks like some calendar shot material here!

With no predictions of rain for the rest of the trip, we were a little surprised when a nice bank of dark clouds rolled in just as we were finishing packing up camp. Luckily, they kept right on a movin’ to the north!

Today we had another big climb over the pass between Potato Bottom and Hardscrabble Bottom. This one had stops that leveled out a bit so we could ride some but again, a lot of walking (at least for me) involved!

Once everyone made it up and over the Hardscrabble Climb, it was a relatively easy ride down to our lunch spot. After lunch, we headed almost due East to our camp for the evening in Taylor Canyon. This was a new campsite for this White Rim Trip and nice and remote. Only one other vehicle came down the road that afternoon.

Joel got up around midnight and snapped a few star shots and caught the Milky Way over the outhouse! And also “Hercules” over our tent looking the other way – but don’t ask me to try and identify those stars.