Thanks to all who have responded so far to my questions about Utah observing/camping sites. I welcome all responses and look forward to my trip in October. I looked at a climate summary that showed that it is typically fairly mild and dry in October. Hopefully that will be the case this year. The wedge overlook sounds interesting. Is there any place fairly close by to get food and water? I can't carry very much on my motorcycle when it's loaded and would probably need to set up camp and leave my gear there in order to carry very much food or water back to camp. Taylor
Taylor,
Yes, there is a general store about 30 miles from the overlook, I can't remember the name, you pass it on your way in. If you contact me off list I can send you a map, I think it is Cleveland, Utah. The road can be tricky, different problems for each route, ie: different kinds of road surfaces, dirt and gravel. Well graded but when wet some sections can be almost sheet ice slick.The Cleveland/Lloyd Dinosuar Quary has some nice dino skeletons, petrified dino tracks on the way. Recently improved visitor center. Castle Dale is further but has the local ranger office, we had an emergency out there one day. Non SLAS event. Erik Thanks to all who have responded so far to my questions about Utah
observing/camping sites. I welcome all responses and look forward to my trip in October. I looked at a climate summary that showed that it is typically fairly mild and dry in October. Hopefully that will be the case this year.
The wedge overlook sounds interesting. Is there any place fairly close by to get food and water? I can't carry very much on my motorcycle when it's loaded and would probably need to set up camp and leave my gear there in order to carry very much food or water back to camp.
Taylor
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We have a SLAS club star party scheduled for October 12-13 for Arches National Park with a fallback location of the Wedge. Arches is fairly light polluted from Moab, but some members of the club want to establish a program with the park. Check back in late September and we will know the status. There is also a planned star party September 7th and 8th at Capitol Reef National Park. Capitol Reef is almost as good as Natural Bridges. We have reserved a group campground at Capitol Reef and the small town of Torrey, Utah with grocery stores and motels is only about 7 miles away. All road are paved except in the campground and Highway 12 south out of Torrey was named the most scenic road in the U.S. by a recent travel publication. -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces+djcolton=piol.com@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces+djcolton=piol.com@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Taylor Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 6:51 PM To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Subject: [Utah-astronomy] observing sites responses Thanks to all who have responded so far to my questions about Utah observing/camping sites. I welcome all responses and look forward to my trip in October. I looked at a climate summary that showed that it is typically fairly mild and dry in October. Hopefully that will be the case this year. The wedge overlook sounds interesting. Is there any place fairly close by to get food and water? I can't carry very much on my motorcycle when it's loaded and would probably need to set up camp and leave my gear there in order to carry very much food or water back to camp. Taylor _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com
All good sites, I think as long as you don't look at objects in the direction of the offending light source it will be alright. I have experienced good nights at almost all places mentioned. Have not Star Gazed at Natural Bridges, Dark Sky, so so horizons, and I like good vistas. Erik We have a SLAS club star party scheduled for October 12-13 for Arches
National Park with a fallback location of the Wedge. Arches is fairly light polluted from Moab, but some members of the club want to establish a program with the park. Check back in late September and we will know the status.
There is also a planned star party September 7th and 8th at Capitol Reef National Park. Capitol Reef is almost as good as Natural Bridges. We have reserved a group campground at Capitol Reef and the small town of Torrey, Utah with grocery stores and motels is only about 7 miles away. All road are paved except in the campground and Highway 12 south out of Torrey was named the most scenic road in the U.S. by a recent travel publication.
-----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces+djcolton=piol.com@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces+djcolton=piol.com@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Taylor Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 6:51 PM To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Subject: [Utah-astronomy] observing sites responses
Thanks to all who have responded so far to my questions about Utah observing/camping sites. I welcome all responses and look forward to my trip in October. I looked at a climate summary that showed that it is typically fairly mild and dry in October. Hopefully that will be the case this year.
The wedge overlook sounds interesting. Is there any place fairly close by to get food and water? I can't carry very much on my motorcycle when it's loaded and would probably need to set up camp and leave my gear there in order to carry very much food or water back to camp.
Taylor
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