You know how, when you’re a kid (some kids … me, for example), the edges of heights don’t bother you? You can stand there, look over, look out, and you’re so confident of your balance, your groundedness to the earth, that you can’t imagine any danger? Then, when you’re an adult (some adults … me, for example), the sight of kids or animals at the edges of great heights gives you the willies, makes the ground under your own feet seem unstable, and you really want who/whatever it is to move away from the edge RIGHT NOW?
See those rocks behind/left of Dundee? They mark the rimrock edge at Spring Creek Basin’s western boundary.
I had walked up the hill where the band was grazing, and though heights bother me a bit more as an adult than they did as a kid, when at the top of the rimrocks, the desire to look over the edge, at the view, is strong. Because … what a view!
The edge of the rimrocks, which form a natural barrier for Spring Creek Basin, is in the near foreground toward the upper right. The road below is the road from the main road in Disappointment Valley to Spring Creek Basin. This view is looking northwestish across Disappointment Valley toward Utah’s La Sal Mountains.
The view looking southwestish. The line of Disappointment Creek is in the far right distance.
And looking more northish.
As for Dundee, she obliged my nervousness so near the edge and headed back down to her friends and Buckeye. Whew. 🙂
