Tonight is our last night at camp.

 Sunday (tomorrow) I take out the water. The pump and tank must winter warmer than 32F. 

Ten to twelve steps to disconnect and drain the system.

Later I will pull the long ramp off the dock. 

Tuesday and Saturday flights to and from Utah

We arrived near noon Tuesday so had a productive day driving toward Bryce Canyon, NP.

In 1988, in our motorhome we stopped in Richfield, Utah. Tuesday, September 17, 2024, we were back. The town was hosting an International Offroad Rally.  We saw 30 to 60 fancy four seat vehicles. Some on trailers, some driving on the street going back and forth. 

The next morning, we continued on to Bryce Canyon National Park until noon and then to the East entrance of Zion National Park in the afternoon.  Both are impressive, but Zion has an immensity I am unable to describe.

For me the driver it also has a LONG unlit tunnel.  The real issue was transition from brilliant bright sunlight to dark.  

Following we collected Nevada and the city of Salt Lake on other days. A bit of a zoom zoom visit but number of days was fine. 

Driving in Utah gives constant changes in scenery and vistas. All vistas of their own character.

THE END

p.s. for Troy. We had an excellent spur of the moment 25-minute tour and missionary conversation with a Morman History Library guide. Pleasent lady widow and living for two years in Salt Lake City at her own expense. A professional photographer and blessed with having adult children within fifty miles.

She was doing her two-year missionary tasking and at least two of her children had done the same prior.

Fabulous building with twelve archival vaults, off limits to almost everyone.

Times two

 Zion, Bryce, and the city. 

The water system at camp.

Putting the water in and taking it out involves many steps.

In the spring I start by putting the intake hose into garbage cans. This way I isolate possible interior plumbing issues. 

In the same way in fall, I stop pulling water from the brook. This means I am able to devote time to draining and winterizing the long intake hose. 

I become the lift pump once again using garbage cans not the brook as the source. Now the pump is almost gravity fed.

The water level of MOOSELOOKMEGUNTIC Lake, Cupsuptic Lake, the same river and our brook all are almost three feet below the spring level.

To avoid freezing components inside the pump, I move it 114 miles to our condo basement. The expansion tank and various valves also go home. This way I have the winter months to study and improve any leaks.

And there are more steps to fully shut down the seasonal camp water system. Keeps me busy.

The Lawn Boy (green) mower.

 I thought the fuel tank was close to empty. Not so. I allowed the mower to run for well over twenty minutes. I then tried to empty the tank and started the mower once more. Even then many more minutes before the engine stopped. 

This year my luck was better than last. Often the engine started on the first pull. 

For the first four years ( with a new mower) each spring the engine started on the first pull. Advertised and accurate. 

So now spring 2025 will be the next test. 

Labor Day, 2024

THREE, three, four, three. The number of mice in buckets of water in the last four days. 

In addition, I was at the road on my walk and saw a bull moose. Minutes later we ( the moose and I) met again. He went through the woods and came back to the camp road.

In summary, forty eight mice eliminated this summer. A record.