Talk about an oasis. 70 miles of nothing but sagebrush. I climb over the last hill for the day and see this great river on the other side.I would like to thank the great state of Wyoming for marking the roads that I needed to turn on for the last couple days. Without my odometer I would have been doing some guessing, but every road was marked.
Today was the long day. From A&M to my next stop was 68 miles with possibly no water until my destination. Last night the coyotes were howling(it sounded like a huge pack). I think I set up camp in their watering hole, my mistake. This morning I wished I had a fishing pole, the fish were jumping big time. I lucked out on the weather today it was overcast just about all day and I even got about a 30 minute rain shower. The area I was riding today was all sagebrush, no trees could be seen for the whole 68 miles. My water was doing ok, but I was not drinking as much as normal because of the lack of water. There was a Diagnus Well on my map at mile 57, but it is not always running. I stopped and walked the 1/4 mile to the well to check it out. Sure enough there was water running from the spicket, so I filled up on water there. I told myself if it was running I would camp there for the night, but it was not a good area to camp so I pushed on to Sweetwater River. I am glad I did, Sweetwater turned out to be a great spot to camp.
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