Hull's Place

 I'm going to try and get un-sore and un-tired so we're just doing short little hikes for a couple days and let the sun do the work coming to us. We hiked over to Hull's place and then put up a couple chairs and hung out.

Last week Jax did it again. Tami and I are walking along discussing some stuff that needs to be done and Jax wanders off and starts smelling under a trash can and when I move it there's a small scorpion under it. Tami catches if and we take it out by the bottle place and release it.

The Overlook

 Jax and I are hiking up Hurrah Pass and at each decent size bump in the road we come across some Polaris parts so I assume they have taken the burnt up Polaris 1000 to town.

I'm tired and sore which I've been for a long time. I don't want to hike anymore so we find a nice overlook and spend an hour or so watching the sun come to us.

Tami Gave Me Notice Today

Tami is leaving and business is three to four times what it's ever been. This is a gut punch. She's done so well. She's been mentioned in about every 3rd or so review that comes up. She works so hard and is such a good person. I've got a couple weeks at most probably to find somebody and they will be big shoes to fill.

Stairway to Heaven: Still Wandering

 Jax and I are still visiting places we haven't been to in a long time, or ever, just wandering.

The Crazy Dog

Boat Ramp: What Was I Thinking?

 The channel is still on our side of the river and it's eating a way at the bank every day to the point that it's a three of four foot drop off to get in the river. If you're taking dogs and or kids across the river it's some work to get to the sand bar beach. I decide to go by the boat ramp and it's perfect so I start sending people to the boat ramp where they can drive right down to it, walk through six inches of water and get on three sand bars, your own island. We start working on transferring the kayaks to the boat ramp.

Polaris One Thousand

 Tami is getting a little bit of a personality. She's funny. We're driving over to get the truck at the boat house which is being pumped full of river water to fill the cisterns at the lodge when she says something funny. I'm driving one of the Polaris Rangers and when I look over at her behind her a see a large plume of black smoke. I says "Polaris 1000. We gotta go." We drive over to the sand hill where at the bottom is a Polaris 1,000 on fire. I've seen this three other times. The metal plate in the bed of the vehicle which sits directly above the engine isn't very thick and it gets hot quickly. If you stick a plastic gas tank back there it will melt and you'll get this. They were suppose to have fixed it in 2017 or so and I haven't seen one on fire since but this is a 2020. Three guys are running towards us wheezing and coughing. Neither Tami or I have a camera with us but after we check on them and determine they're ok, we run over and get the truck, drop it so it's draining water into the cisterns and go back to the site.

I call San Juan County Sheriff and tell them it's on BLM land by about a foot and a little while later a ranger arrives.

Then a fire truck shows up. I'm closest in district being just three miles away from Canyonlands but because there's a big river in he way it takes two hours to get here.