Alma Christensen Interpretive Trail
Fremont Indian State Park Fishlake National Forest Map link. I picked a random spot along the road to go geocaching to stretch my legs and break up driving to Colorado, which turned out to be a nice little stretch of old highway now bypassed by Interstate 70 in Utah. The first cache was placed next to a pair of right-of-way markers for the road, which was fun to find. Another had me parking near another benchmark and climbing up a short way along an old road. Coming down again, I noticed them scattered over the hillside thick with the fragrance of sage and blooming with all their might: Matilija poppies. Along a bit of old Utah state road there are Matilija poppies growing. After the rather surprising flowers, I found a nice trail I wanted to go down, but had no idea how far would go, and then some road construction. The pilot car for it decided it needed to lead everyone past my turn and then past a couple little trails and I decided to go for one since I was still ...