Saturday in the Monument

Green River from a bridge on Cub Creek Road

Aside from the usual morning reading and social media check, I did a few domestic sorts of things yesterday morning, you know, washing dishes, laundry, remaking the bed, straightening things. Nesting behaviors.

Watching White Tailed Prairie Dogs forage from our windows.  The Dogs live in our front yard and in our back yard and they have young ones making their way out of the burrows into the world above ground, foraging, and engaging in a bit of rough and tumble as kids will do.

My phone tells me we are at 4,790 feet (1,415 meters) above sea level at the residences near the Quarry Visitor Center. High desert. Not far away from us is Split Mountain peaking out at 7,642 feet (2,329 meters).

I mentioned my cycling is a bit challenging here.  It's a world of up and down.  The scale of my surroundings is also challenging.  Cub Creek Road provides spectacular vistas with long sweeping curves and long downhill/uphill views of the Monument mountains. 

So far, everytime I'm out riding feels like I'm seeing the Monument for the first time.