Day 7 (Friday, June 10, 2005), Rock Springs, Wyoming to Promontory Summit, Utah

    

 

 

I spent the proceeding evening camped just east of Rock Springs out amongst the stars and wild things on the airport plateau, just above Bitter Creek...

 

     

 

 

 

Rock Springs, Wyoming...

     

 

 

 

Proceeding west through Wyoming...

 

       

 

 

 

 

Fort Bridger, Wyoming...  established around 1842 by Jim Bridger, the greatest frontiersmen of them all...

 

       

 

       

 

       

 

       

 

 

 

 

 

The grave of Thornburgh the dog at Fort Bridger...

 

     

 

 

 

Bridger's Old Fort... I bought a fine raccoon pelt...

 

       

 

       

 

   

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Bridger

 

 

Westward, across southwestern Wyoming...

 

 

Evanston, Wyoming...

 

       

 

 

 

Into Utah and over Parleys Summit...

 

       

 

   

 

 

 

Salt Lake City, Utah...

 

       

 

     

 

 

Looking down at the Salt Lake Basin from the eastern heights...

 

 

On through Salt Lake City...

       

 

       

 

 

 

 

Proceeding northward from Salt Lake City through Ogden and Brigham City, toward Promontory...

 

       

 

   

 

 

 

Thiokol...

 

     

 

 

 

Promontory...

 

       

 

 

 

Golden Spike National Historic Site at Promontory Summit...

 

       

 

       

 

     

 

I camped for the evening at Promontory Summit, just a few yards from the spot where the first transcontinental railroad reached its completion on May 10, 1869. My camp by Golden Spike was isolated; just me and scores of rabbits about, and coyotes calling out from every direction...