{"id":390,"date":"2011-11-01T15:37:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T21:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maxcarmichael.com\/blog\/?p=390"},"modified":"2020-07-01T14:49:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T20:49:21","slug":"mustard-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxcarmichael.com\/blog\/?p=390","title":{"rendered":"Mustard Point"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Day 8: Page to Silver City<\/p>\n

Highlights: Moonscape<\/p>\n

The night before, I had finally come out of the backcountry, me and my truck rattled to a pulp by washboard roads, looking for a campsite somewhere along the highway at the south end of the Escalante country.<\/p>\n

I kept driving a few miles and trying turnouts, each leading to worse and worse washboard, until I finally came to the last turnoff before the Colorado River and Page.<\/p>\n

It was a bizarre moonscape unlike anything I’d seen before, and the sun was rapidly setting. I drove up and over the rolling clay hills as night fell, and nowhere could I find a place to pull off and camp. Finally I came to a side road down a narrow canyon, and shortly encountered a flat wash where I could pull off, but it looked to be a put-in to Lake Powell, and it was a depressing place to camp. So I drove back to the highway and continued to Page, where I found another cheap motel on the “Street of the Little Motels.”<\/p>\n

Then in the morning, before starting for home, I came back to the Smoky Mountain Road below Mustard Point and took these pictures.<\/p>\n

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