Sunday morning, I get up, had my last Coke and some fruit and start for the Beaverhead Work Center. The going was pretty good for a while, a bit washboarded and then I got to Black Canyon. At Black Canyon I found a running stream and I went down and filtered some water as I was getting low. First time filtering with the SAWYER filter and it seemed to go well. Black Canyon had a pretty impressive descent into it, and then a climb out of it. It was starting to get hot and having that full bottle of water made all of the difference.
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Black Canyon water supply
As the afternoon wore on, I finally passed Wall Lake, which is private with lots of No Trespassing signs all over the place. I got hotter and the camelback ran out, and I was into that bottle of water that I filtered at Black Canyon. I used my last 5 Hour Energy and then slowly, but slowly got to Beaverhead. They had this big beautiful water faucet and I filled everything and then took a nap on a wooden bench under the trees. After a bit some of the horses came over and I petted the mule. Some of the fire fighters came out and were spraying bees and I started a conversation with them and asked them if they had a Coke machine someplace ( since the one by the door has a big Out of Order sign on it ). They gave me two Cokes, an apple and an orange and I was sooooo grateful for that and was on my way.
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| Beaverhead nap bench |
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| Beaverhead Work Center |
Much more energized, I rolled for several miles into O-Bar-O canyon and found this little piece of road with flowers growing in the middle of the road. The canyon was like a wind tunnel as it aimed mostly west and the wind was coming from that direction. At one place I see a sign for a place called Collins Park that seemed to be just a general area on the map. Kept riding on into the early evening and darkness, had some mule deer cross the road in front of me, and then finally came to a wooded area and found a place to camp out with a beautiful sunset.
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| O-Bar-O Canyon |
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Riding into Darkness
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