West Rim Upper, St George, UT

Our first full day on trails had us on West Rim Upper Trail. Interesting stops included the ruins of Fort Pearce an outpost used by the Army from about 1867 to 1870 I believe. The wall leading away in the photo is a remnant of the coral. The actual fort is the small stone structure in the distance. It must have been harsh duty, the longest dimension of the building is only thirty feet.

We continued on to a wash that features dinosaur tracks. There were quite a few imprints of varying size. The one pictured was about a foot in length and is believed to be made by an animal eight feet high at the shoulder and about twenty feet long.

In hundreds of acres of dunes in the State Park we managed to find the one composting toilet.

The views at our lunch spot were beautiful.

Did I mention it is getting in the twenties at night here during Halloween week?