28 March 2010

Badwater Road to Dry Bridger Road

The paved road from US-20 turns toward Bonneville at the junction below and switches from being Badwater Road to Bonneville Road. To stay on Badwater Road, you must turn left onto the gravel road.

Badwater Road, Bonneville Road, WyomingWe returned to the spot we had left at the end of my last blog post.

Badwater Road, WyomingThere are a few side roads which lead off of Badwater Road but are not named. What follows are six shots from one of those dead-end roads.

Badwater Road, Wyoming
Badwater Road, Wyoming
Badwater Road, Wyoming
Badwater Road, Wyoming
Badwater Road, WyomingFor the sake of perspective, I asked my wife to be a part of this photograph. It is a wall of columns, and this shot shows all of them.

Badwater Road, WyomingWhat follows is along the main road.

Badwater Road, Wyoming
Badwater Road, WyomingBelow is a close-up of above.

Badwater Road, Wyoming
Badwater Road, Wyoming
Badwater Road, Point of Mountain Road, WyomingBadwater Road continues southeast to Lysite at the junction above. The Lysite, Lost Cabin area has many of these natural gas drilling sites as seen below. Because of this, there are a few warning signs along the way.

Poison Gas, Lysite, Wyoming
Badwater Road, Wyoming
Badwater Road, WyomingWhat follows are shots taken from Point of Mountain Road.

Point of Mountain Road, Wyoming
Point of Mountain Road, Wyoming
Point of Mountain Road, Wyoming
Point of Mountain Road, WyomingPronghorns gallop away as soon as they see you, but this loner came trotting by us and passed within about 20 feet. It was so unusual that we weren't prepared to take any better shots than the one below.

Point of Mountain Road, Wyoming
Point of Mountain Road, Bridger Creek Road, WyomingAt this junction, we turned onto Bridger Creek Road.

Bridger Creek Road, Wyoming
Bridger Creek Road, Wyoming
Bridger Creek Road, Wyoming
Bridger Creek Road, WyomingThen we turned onto Dry Bridger Road, or Hot Springs County Road Five which leads back to Thermopolis. The other roads we were on had been graded recently, but not so with this one.

Old Bridger Road, Wyoming
Old Bridger Road, Wyoming
Old Bridger Road, WyomingAbout a half mile past this cabin we encountered too much mud because of the melting snow, and so we turned around and decided to have our picnic lunch below. By the way, I didn't understand the nature of mud until I came to Wyoming.

Old Bridger Road, WyomingWhat follows are the shots I took on the way home, taking the same route.

Old Bridger Road, Wyoming
Old Bridger Road, Wyoming
Old Bridger Road, WyomingBelow is the snow on the other side of the dam which holds back this small reservoir.

Old Bridger Road, WyomingThis is a part of the dam:

Old Bridger Road, Wyoming
Old Bridger Road, WyomingThe next four photographs are a part of the ditch below, next to Badwater Road.

Badwater Road, Wyoming
Badwater Road, Wyoming
Badwater Road, Wyoming
Badwater Road, Wyoming
Badwater Road, Wyoming
Badwater Road, WyomingThe stones below are from the location pictured above. I found them all within a six foot radius.

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