As advertised yesterday we are now in Cedar City for today and tomorrow. The summer Shakespeare season has started at the Globe Theatre on the Southern Utah State campus, and the Five Brothers(along with wives and 26 children) are performing tonight as part of the Family Festival over the July 4 weekend. Parade is at 9:30 tomorrow morning right in front of our motel. The ride today was literally all up and then all down. The climb to Cedar Breaks National Monument from the east was a 32 mile ascent. As you can imagine it was pretty gradual with most of the steeper climbing in the last five miles. The descent to Cedar City was 21 miles for the day's total of 59 miles (I know it doesn't add up, there were a few extraneous miles as well). The descent down Cedar Canyon was a screamer at 4-8% gradient for more than 10 miles. I know because the road signs told me so. The "test your brakes" sign at the top should have been a clue. Fortunately, most of the holiday traffic was heading up and we are glad to be off the road for tomorrow. One thing that is noticeable is there are a lot more large pick-up trucks pulling trailers with ATV's than we would see in Upstate NY as it is a very popular sport out here. We also see many motor cycle tourists.
Cedar Breaks has a wildflower festival that started in the last couple of days. The season is starting late this year so only early varieties were out. The yellow is dandelions in the pic below, but there were some shots where the yellow is tiny daisies. No lupine yet; just too early.
By-the-way, for those of you mechanically inclined and curious to hear the outcome of the rear hub problem, the bike shop guy used a special tool to clean out and replace the lubricant. There was only a light dusting of metal particles in what was extracted so we agreed it will probably make it the rest of the way. We are now at just over 3000 map miles competed.
And what did we do this afternoon? Laundry of course, what all road warriors have to do from time to time.
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