Scott had to teach over spring break so we decided not to go anywhere overnight. Instead, we took a day trip to Topaz Mountain. This turned out to be more of an adventure than we intended.
Topaz Mountain is about 2 1/2 hours away from our house. It's supposed to be a great place to find cool rocks. I wouldn't recommend going for that reason since we didn't find anything that special. If you do go for that reason then take someone with you who knows where to look because we sure didn't.
We still enjoyed our visit. Three of my children decided to climb up to the top of the mountain and the youngest two had fun just scrambling around. Meanwhile I relaxed and enjoyed the complete quiet and solitude. It is really out in the middle of nowhere and you have to drive 45 minutes to get to the closest flush toilets in Delta, Utah.
This was made quite obvious to me when we had our unintended adventure. We had brought a few bikes thinking maybe the older kids would enjoy that. The road on the mountain was really bad so my 12-year-old son Talmage decided to ride his bike back down the mountain when we decided to leave. So he took off ahead of us and we thought we would catch up with him in a few minutes and pick him up. We were much slower than we thought and when we got to the bottom there was no sign of him. More worrisome was when we realized that there were forks in the road and we weren't sure that he knew which ones to take. We went down the wrong way just in case he had gone that way, then we turned around and headed out the right way.
We drove and drove and there was still no sign of him! It started to become really scary to us really quickly because we were in such a remote location with so few resources (and let me remind you of the terrible roads so we really couldn't drive fast.) We did have some limited cell phone coverage so that helped.
After about an hour and a half of frantic searching and enlisting anyone we ran into (there were some campers in the area) we finally found him. He had ridden his bike out the right way and gotten all the way to the highway. He must have been faster than we expected while we were slower than we thought. Thank goodness. I was ready to call search and rescue for help--we felt so helpless out in the wilderness--but thankfully that wasn't necessary. Despite all that, it was still a good family outing.
Topaz Mountain is about 2 1/2 hours away from our house. It's supposed to be a great place to find cool rocks. I wouldn't recommend going for that reason since we didn't find anything that special. If you do go for that reason then take someone with you who knows where to look because we sure didn't.
This was made quite obvious to me when we had our unintended adventure. We had brought a few bikes thinking maybe the older kids would enjoy that. The road on the mountain was really bad so my 12-year-old son Talmage decided to ride his bike back down the mountain when we decided to leave. So he took off ahead of us and we thought we would catch up with him in a few minutes and pick him up. We were much slower than we thought and when we got to the bottom there was no sign of him. More worrisome was when we realized that there were forks in the road and we weren't sure that he knew which ones to take. We went down the wrong way just in case he had gone that way, then we turned around and headed out the right way.
We drove and drove and there was still no sign of him! It started to become really scary to us really quickly because we were in such a remote location with so few resources (and let me remind you of the terrible roads so we really couldn't drive fast.) We did have some limited cell phone coverage so that helped.
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| We were happy to see this guy again! |
After about an hour and a half of frantic searching and enlisting anyone we ran into (there were some campers in the area) we finally found him. He had ridden his bike out the right way and gotten all the way to the highway. He must have been faster than we expected while we were slower than we thought. Thank goodness. I was ready to call search and rescue for help--we felt so helpless out in the wilderness--but thankfully that wasn't necessary. Despite all that, it was still a good family outing.
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