Difficult to see, but my Xterra is sparked on the side of the road in the picture above.
Climbing up the hill.
The picture above and below....Views from the top of the hill.
Southern Utah is beautiful. A friend once told me "the southwest is intoxicating". I believe him to be true.
Early August 30th of this year while tracing a stretch of highway west of Torrey, UT I came across a beautiful mountain range. As I looked at the top of the "hill" I thought it would be cool to view the morning sunrise from the top of said hill. I estimated that it would take about 2 hours (I will allow you the reader to decide if a 2 hour climb up a relatively steep incline should be called a hill or mountain) to climb the hill in time to see the morning's sunrise.
As I began the climb I found a secure "wash-out" area that I could use as a trail. When I exhausted that route I began zig-zagging back and forth constantly working my way upward until I made it to the top.
I beat the sunrise by about 15 minutes. As I sat on a boulder preparing my morning coffee I began to think how many other people stood or sat in my current location to view a sunrise. Most likely, I was wasn't the first...hopefully, not the last.
The ultimate question of that day was...How many places in the United States, or the World could someone view a sunrise for the very first time?
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