On Saturday we went to Great Basin National Park. It was farther away than we realized, but it was SO fun to drive through a part of Utah we’d never been to before! We got to see the Sevier Desert and Sevier Lake, and we stopped en route to pick up lunch and snacks in Delta, UT. There is literally no place near Great Basin to get food or gas, and the desert road there was empty. There were no cars. It was just sage brush and sand running up against a wall of grey mountains in the distance.
Here are the pictures from our adventure:
The grasses in this meadow were stunning. The wind, which has an incredible personality in Great Basin, was blowing the grasses and making them look like waves in the ocean.I adore the smells and sight of this mountain brush.Clarissa has been so hard and has been driving us out of our minds. But she looks pleased with herself, doesn’t she?
This sums it up. The girls were posing while Ammon attempted to run away.
This was a tremendously frustrating photo to take. The mountains were SO HUGE in person, and they kept looking so tiny and diminished in the photo!!!!Great Basin National Park is basically an island of an ecological system. In the ice age, all of the desert in this picture was actually the same ecological system as the basin system we hiked in. When it warmed up, all of that died and became desert surrounding the basin.
