It feels like I went everywhere in the San Rafael Swell yesterday. I started out at 8:00 am, hoping to climb The Wickiup again and finally find the cache up there. Well, the road was still pretty muddy, with snow in some spots, so I decided to pass. After that, I went to the Eagle Canyon overlook, and hiked one mile round-trip to find a cache nearby. I'd hoped to cross I-70 from there and find a few more on Justensen Flats, but that road was extremely muddy--there was even runoff from melting snow flowing right down the middle of the road.

From there, I headed back east and tried exiting I-70 onto a dirt road at the Head of Sinbad, but either UDOT or the BLM has fenced off that road and placed a sign saying to use exit 129. I headed several more miles east to that exit, then drove back west on a dirt road for about five miles, but I eventually ran into a mud bog that I don't think the Mazda could have made it through. So scratch another few caches.

I knew the road going north from I-70 on the east side of the San Rafael Reef was dry, since I'd passed it earlier in the morning, so I drove there and found one cache and did a little more hiking. After that, I drove south on UT-24 and did a lot more hiking, and found three more caches.

Finally, I drove back to Green River, then headed south to Crystal Geyser. It's a cold-water geyser, powered by carbon dioxide, much like the geyser at Woodside (about 25 miles north). This was really the highlight of my day--the minerals that have built up around the geyser are just awesome, and it's right on the banks of the Green River. I stayed there for a couple of hours (until well after sundown), hoping to catch the geyser erupting, but it never did--it only sputtered a bit. I fixed something to eat while I waited, and took a lot of pictures. Considering how amazing this place is, and how close to the town of Green River it is, I'm surprised I'd never heard about it before a cache was placed nearby. I'd like to go back sometime when I can wait it out--it supposedly only erupts three times a day.