It was an uneventful weekend–so much so that I don’t even recall what I did–but I took yesterday (Monday) off work and did some hiking with Dave. Dave and I had never met before, but we became acquainted through Flickr, and he just happened to be vacationing in Utah and asked me if I wanted to check out the old abandoned railroad grade near Green River. I had already been out in that area before, but I never got far from the interstate. It’s pretty desolate country, but with some interesting things that you just can’t see when you’re cruising at 75 miles per hour. We ate a quick breakfast at the West Winds truck stop in Green River, then headed east toward the Floy exit. We spent a few hours checking out points along the railroad grade, and also observed some oddities that were visible in Google Earth but not readily explainable. It turns out that those oddities still defy explanation when you’re looking at them in person, but they were probably excavations left by mineral or oil exploration. Some of them look like craters from the air, but from the ground they look like depressions in the surface, some elongated with mounds of dirt on either end, and others round with the dirt spread out all around the hole.
After parting company with Dave, I drove home and found several geocaches along the way. I got soaked from the rain while finding a couple of caches off of I-70, but as I drove north on US-6, it cleared up and eventually became sunny. I particularly enjoyed the cache at the Woodside cemetery. I’m still uneasy whenever I’m stopped anywhere near Woodside, but I didn’t have to leave sight of the car in order to find the cache. The cemetery is out of sight and hearing distance from the highway, and I spent a few minutes walking around and enjoying the scenery. It’s probably the best cache I’ve found all year, though I haven’t found many this year. Yet.