Yep, we just decided to do it while we were down at Hole in the Rock. It turned out to be a good decision.
Sorry for the delay in posting updates, I've been busy.
We got up the next morning and realized we had found another cool campsite in the dark. I wandered around and took pictures and flew the drone around a bit after we were mostly packed up and while Amber was cooking:
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Just up on the rocks that surrounded our campsite were petrified dinosaur tracks:
The views from up on the rocks were pretty nice:
When we finished packing, we headed back out to Left Hand Collet Road and headed towards Smokey Mountain Road. We had heard from some other wheelers that this route to Escalante was closed a couple days before, but we decided to see if it had dried out enough to cross. There was some cool erosion on the canyon sides on Left Hand Collet:
We got up to Smokey Mountain Road and headed towards Escalante. About 3/4 of the way there we bumped into a dozer and a grader that were repairing the road, so we new we were good from there on. Unfortunately we didn't seem to take any other pictures for a while. We stopped in Escalante for food and fuel then headed to Boulder, UT.
From Boulder we took the Burr Trail towards the Henry Mountains. The 75 miles of pavement we were on was the most scenic awesome stretch of road I've ever been on. The last 25 miles of the trail were unpaved, which is the only place we stopped to take pictures (sorry). You can see the Henry Mountains in the distance:
We continued on the Burr Trail South to get down to the South end of the Henry Mountains. The landscape went from desert scrub to a bizzare landscape similar to what we saw in Glen Canyon:
This was one of the numerous crossings that would not have been passable had we been there a few days earlier:
As we were picking trails to get us up into the mountains for a cooler camping location, we came across a washout we weren't willing to cross. It was right at the beginning of the trail and there was another route so we decided to head back and look for a better way. We were hoping to get into camp before dark for once:
We ended up finding a decent spot on the East side of the mountain after cruising around one of the peaks and over a pass. It was a great drive, but once again we covered a ton of miles and we were all ready to stop for the night. I broke out the projector and we watched a movie before calling it a night.
Unfortunately we didn't stop and take a lot of pictures on this day, but here's another drone video from our campsite that morning: