The West Desert

Our neighbors Bill and Julie Valora offered to take us to the "west desert" where Bill likes to go 4-wheeling. We agreed and took a oportune Saturday to drop the kids off in Eagle Mountain at Gma's and head out there. What an adventure! Bill took us TWO HOURS into the west desert. (We could see the Nevada Mountains.) We had left the house at 8:30 and didn't mount the ATV until 11:20, and that was 6 miles before Bill wanted to stop because our trailer hitch lost it's pin. Some very generous jeepers that passed by gave us one of their hitch pins and saved us. The scenery was beautiful! I climbed some very steep hills and did some advanced off-roading, but never tipped over or flew off. I was able to keep up the Jared and Bill, but did lose them once when they turned off the trail. The copper mines Bill showed us were so neat to see. We had a picnic next to an abandoned stone house and some desert mountain sheep stopped nearby and watched us. The weather was pretty cool but we were dressed warm. We got back to our vehicles about 3:30 but didn't get back to Eagle mountain until 7:30 because we got 2 flat tires on our Yukon from driving it nearly 4 hours on rocky roads. Fortunately Bill was behind us and helped us change the one tire and drove us way back to Lehi to buy another tire, then drove us all the way back to Cedar Fort. We thanked him profusely. The kids didn't seem to mind being at Gma's for 12 hours. Notwithstanding the problems it was a really fun day! I'm glad I can say I have been to the West Desert.