![]() When that reached the height they needed for the road surface, they just tarred the top and painted on some lines. I haven’t been able to find out exactly how the CCC engineers dealt with this, but the road looks as if they just dumped a kind of dyke of soil and rock on top of the slickrock, a little wider than the road. The chosen route ran over huge outcrops of Desert Slickrock. This is much of the reason why Utah 12 is not only a Scenic Byway but one of the much rarer All-American Roads.ĭesert Slickrock – would you like to build a road over this? And despite the fact that the ride up into Dixie National Forest had been a blast so far, we were still looking forward to the best part of Utah 12: the Hogsback. Fortunately my riding companions didn’t hold my misapprehension against me for Australians, riding through snow is more a novelty than an imposition. ![]() Nearly three kilometres up and enveloped by steadily falling snow, I discovered my mistake. As it was, I assumed that the notation ‘Summit 9400ft’ referred to the nearby Lion Mountain and not Utah Scenic Byway 12. Had I known the American definition when I consulted my map in the bar in Torrey, Utah with the temperature dropping visibly outside and snow threatening from lowering clouds, I might have chosen a different route. How was I to know that the word ‘summit’, which indicates the top of a mountain where I come from, can mean ‘the highest point along a road’ to our American cousins? You can add Australia to that, and make it three nations. ![]() “England and America are two nations separated by a common language.” – George Bernard Shaw (attrib.) We missed out on the Poison Road, but the Hogsback made up for it. ![]()
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