Henry's Fork Creek, High Uintas Wilderness, Utah
September 3 to 7, 2002
"I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix"
"There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it"
"Stangerson too! he muttered. The plot thickens."
Sherlock Holmes(The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone, A Study in Scarlet, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1887)
"We are of those who believe in those sacred writings, drawn in Egyptian letters on plates of beaten gold, which were handed unto the holy Joseph Smith at Palmyra. We have come from Nauvoo, in the State of Illinois, where we had founded our temple. We have come to seek a refuge from the violent man and from the godless, even though it be the heart of the desert."
A young Mormon man (A Study in Scarlet, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1887)
"I shall draw the Mormons as I find them when I write of my present experiences. All I said of the Danite Band and the murders is historical so I cannot withdraw that, tho' it is likely that in a work of fiction it is stated more luridly than in a work of history. It is best to let the matter rest, I think, and draw the Mormons as they now are."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
"He [Conan Doyle] said he had been misled by writings of the time about the Church" and "had written a scurrilous book about the Mormons"
Levi Edgar Young (1874-1963)
Hike Information
Ted and I made a short trip the High Uintas Wilderness in Utah in 2002. From what I have read, the Uintas are one of two major ranges in the US that go east west instead of north south. The other major range is the Brooks Range in Alaska. Ted and I met at a small motel in Lyman, WY (the Valley West Motel; 106 E Clark St). This motel was inexpensive, very pleasant, and the owner allowed me to park my car there while we drove up to the trailhead in Ted's car. I highly reccomend it.
It was a fairly easy drive up to the Henry's Fork trailhead and hike to basecamp, but I felt like I was coming down with something. Ted got to use his brand new Megamid™ that he had purchased.
I camped outside under the stars (am experimental phase). We saw a few moose.. The next day Ted went up to climb King's Peak, while I did a small hike to Sawmill Lake. I was feeling pretty weird, so I went back to basecamp and slept the entire day until Ted got back.
The next day Ted and I went back up to Sawmill Lake where we saw the old rusty machinery, and up to Bear Lake where we had lunch. We headed back to basecamp where we had a nice dinner, relaxed, and crashed.
That night, it started drizzling. Then it started raining. As I was sleeping outside, I started to wonder if it was going to stop. It didn't, so I picked up my stuff and joined Ted in the Megamid™. The next day it was still raining, and rained all the while as we we hiked out. The trail was slippery and wet, and of course, I slipped within 20 yards of the trailhead. We also saw some very wet, sorry looking hikers heading in to Alligator Lake. But they appeared to be of somewhat sturdy stock whom we were sure would persevere to reach their goal
The High Uintas Wilderness (456,705 acres) is a wilderness area located in northeastern Utah, United States. The wilderness covers the Uinta Mountains, encompassing parts of Duchesne and Summit counties. Designated as a wilderness in 1984, the area is located within parts of Ashley National Forest and Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest.
The Uinta Mountains are chain of mountains in northeastern Utah with portions in northwest Colorado and southwestern Wyoming. A subrange of the Rocky Mountains, they are unusual for being the highest range in the contiguous United States running east to west.
The name "Uinta" derives from a Ute word meaning "pine forest" or "pine tree".
