I arrived at Cincinnati airport at about 7:30 p.m. from New York City's LaGuardia Airport. Jason and Daniel picked me up, and we immediately drove toward Utah. We drove across the flat lands of Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas before reaching the mountains of Colorado and Utah -- more than 1,500 miles in about 30 hours. Unusually, I remained a passenger throughout the entire trip because I wasn't one of the designated drivers on the rented Chevrolet Cruze sedan.
Jason probably slept a total of three hours during the drive to Dark Canyon Wilderness. We were pulled over in Kansas because the state trooper thought that I was a child sleeping in the rear and he noticed the car moving in and out of the painted yellow line on the left. No ticket there, though.
We had our assortment of road trip junk food: Wendy's hamburgers, Krispy Kreme doughnouts (at least for me), Pringles chips, Pepsi soda. And a hamburger or chicken burger and two pints of beer (for Jason) at Ray's Tavern in Green River, Utah.
We arrived close to midnight at the Sundance trailhead, which is probably about 5,000 feet above sea level. The moon was so bright that you could make out the bottom of the canyon. The Bureau of Land Management says that the talus slope, or slope characterized by piles of rock, is 50 percent, or about 27 degrees. But it sure looks steeper than that.
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