We woke up to a sunny day at our dispersed camping location on Burr Trail Road in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument:

We drove back to Boulder, then north to Torrey where there’s a great information center.  We took advantage of their displays and free WiFi:

We continued west to the town of Loa solely to shop at their grocery store.  The town, large for this area with a population of about 500, has the largest store we’ve encountered since leaving St. George almost two weeks ago.  We were also able to fill up our water tank at the USFS office in town (thanks!), and dump at a concrete company on the way out of town on our way north to Forsyth Reservoir.  This part of the US is so sparsely populated that dispersed camping on a lake shore is not a problem.  With our cell booster, we get no AT&T coverage but do have one intermittent bar of Verizon:

I went out for a bike ride, heading north into the mountains:

Looking back down towards Forsyth Reservoir:

At last, the summit:

Good Shabbos from Forsyth Reservoir:

See the trip map for today’s drive and our current location.