We decided to take a short trip across the highway to the dinosaur
mine and take the hike "Journey Through Time" for today. Plus do a few
errands and check out the museum in town. Also, this page has been split
up into two pages as it is packed with pictures. So I split it into two
different pages. You can go to the bottom to see the next page.
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The Trail Through Time: Start of the
Trail at Exit 2 off of Interstate 70. That's right folks, you
could be seeing Dinosaurs on your way to Utah. We signed the
guest book as Laura-n-Sasha.com and headed to the trailhead. Of
course, it started raining right when we wanted to take the
trail, so we waited a bit before venturing out. There are two
parts to this trail; one is wheelchair accessible: what you see
here, and one part is not (which you will see shortly.) The maps
say that the trail is moderately strenuous, but we did not think
so. |
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We
first saw this Camarasaurus - well, we would not have seen it
unless the sign was there and there were a few markers as well.
These bones were preserved in the rock, and thankfully, no one
had stolen them. |
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Where are the dinosaurs? Almost the
entire trail around, the points on the trail were talking about
the geology, topography, animals (living) and plants (living).
No dinosaur bones were to be found along the trail. It was as
though they were picked clean. |
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The rocky trail in the foreground is the
harder trail and in the background is the lower/easier trail. |
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Yesterday, Sasha said that he saw some
arches that turned out to not be. So I wanted to show him what
an arch looked like instead. |
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Rabbit
Valley Overlook, where we have been making our home for almost a
week. If you click on this picture you can see the red arrow a
little better. That is pointing to what I believe is our
homestead. |
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Here
we are in the mudstones and hills that hold the dinosaur bones,
the area around us is very arid, although they were getting rain
before and after these pictures were taken. |
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Finally
some bones! These were the bones of a Sauropod, of the spine,
This was the last bit of bones we saw at this park. |
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This was a claim marker that someone had
made, but they did not claim it correctly, so this land was
never theirs. After this picture, we
headed back to our ATV and motorcycle, headed back to the site,
had lunch and then headed out to Dinosaur Journey, located at
Fruita. We were going to check out the museum, take showers, and
get some dinner. |
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I do not have many pictures of the Dinosaur
Journey, however, I did take a few movies of the animated
dinosaurs. There were four full sized dinosaurs that moved,
roared, spit and blinked. So go ahead and click on the links
below, to see these animals moving. |
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T-Rex: This is a juvenile T-Rex (as an adult would be too
large for the museum) |
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Stegosaurus - a little one defending his territory |
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The others will come in later, as they are
both large, in the Videos section. |
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The
case of the bones here is of the Camptosaurus, a bipedal
dinosaurs. |
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This
is just the upper arm bone of a Brachiosaurus and it was taller
than Laura. |
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Here is the leg of a brachiosaurus and as
you can see, it is quite large. |
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This
is what they believed the inside of a T-Rex leg would look like
as well as the outside of the leg.
Again you should notice how very large the leg is, this is based
on the true size of an adult, and it only shows part of the leg! |
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So that is it of the pictures in that museum.
After the museum, we took showers, did laundry, and went and had
dinner at
Rib City Grill which is
nearby the state park where we took the showers, laundry and
filled up the water tanks. We headed back to Rabbit Valley, our
boondocking site and will head out tomorrow for the next
dinosaur adventure. |