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Questions from October

October 1

What did John Muir say about Yosemite?

 

 

October 2

Check out the Photos

 

October 3

How does Gary describe Nevada?

 

 

 

Why was it smoky?

 

 

Check out the photos. 

 

October 4

Where was the first curve since leaving town?

 

 

When Gary looks back at the road behind him what are the three lines?

 

 

 

Check out the photos:  What is different about one of the trees?

 

 

 

October 5

Why did Gary feel like he was in a Stephen King Novel?

 

 

Check out the photo:  What do you think that this is a picture of?

 

 

What did Gary use for his campfire?

 

 

October 6

Check out the photo:  Gary was trying to out run something.  What was it?

 

 

 

What made Gary’s low tire problem worse?

 

 

 

October 7

What is the Great Basin?

 

 

 

October 8

What are the Bristlecone Pines?

 

 

 

 

Where and how old is the oldest Bristlecone Pine?

 

 

 

What is a slice of Prometheus now known as?

 

 

Be sure and check out the photos:  which is your favorite one?

 

October 9

What method did Gary use to get all of his biking accomplished today?

 

 

 

October 10

What is in the first photo?

 

 

What is in the second photo?  Why was it closed?

 

 

October 11

What makes Cedar Breaks beautiful?

 

 

 

Check out all the photos:  Describe two of them.

 

 

 

October 12

What silhouette replaced the usual bicycle silhouette?

 

 

 

Be sure and check out the photos.

 

October 13

Why does the Zion canyon narrow so drastically?

 

 

Check out both sets A & B of photos:  Which set do you like better and why?

 

 

 

October 14

Whom did Gary meet at the visitor’s center?

 

 

 

Check out the photos:  What is “slickrock” country?

 

 

 

October 15

 Check out the photos.

 

October 16

What did Gary buy?

 

 

What is the Indian legend of the hoodoos?

 

 

 

Check out the photos.  Describe two.

 

 

 

 

October 17

Whom did Gary meet up with again?

 

 

What do you see in the first photo?

 

What did Gary say was significant about the cliff in the second photo?

 

 

 

October 18

Boulder was the last town in the US to receive its mail how?

 

 

 

Check out the photo.

 

What did Gary find interesting about their home design?

 

October 19

WOW!  Check out the panoramic photo!!!!

 

What did Gary find on the picnic table when he returned from doing laundry?

 

October 20

What is one of the best-kept secrets in the National Park System?

 

 

What are Petroglyphs?

 

 

Check out the photos on the left-hand side.  What is significant about the last picture?

 

 

Check out the bicycle photos of Capitol Reef National Park.

 

October 21

What caused his flat tire?

 

 

 

Check out the photos.

 

October 22

How do the parks get their water?

 

 

 

According to Gary what would be the easiest job in Utah?

 

 

Gary spent time dodging alligators.  What did he mean?

 

 

In the first photo, apparently, where was the rest stop?

 

 

WOW! Check out the other two photos.

 

October 23

Enjoy the photos:  Under the bicyclist can you find the ones that have: a giant prehistoric footprint, a mirror, and Indian paintings?

 

October 24

What did Gary learn that had happened on Oct. 21?

 

 

October 25

Which photograph of Arches National Park is your favorite?  Why?

 

 

How were most of the arches formed?

 

 

Other than the arches what is another point of interest for this park?

 

 

Check out the photos at the bottom of the page.

 

October 26

Enjoy the photographs.

 

October 27

Just skim the entry

 

October 28

What is in the first photo?

 

 

Who was the driving force behind the preservation of Black Canyon?

 

Be sure and take time to check out the bicyclist photos.

 

October 29

Enjoy the story and photos.

 

 

October 30

Check out the photos:  What was the last one a picture of?

 

 

 

 

October 31

What did Gary tell the four deer that he saw?

 

 

 

What is Dove Creek’s claim to fame?

 

 

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