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Approaching Gould's Rim Trailhead

Continuing my preview of the various paths in the Hurricane Cliffs Trail System in preparation to do the whole 20 mile loop one day in the future.  I'm glad I'm preparing this way, because this trail is not always easy to follow.  If you've been once, or are with someone who has, sure it's pretty easy to follow.  If not ... well, I'll let the pictures a little later tell the story.

For today, it was 1.65 miles with 72 feet climbed in 30:10 minutes.  Conditions were the kind you wish you could bottle and have available always:  Clear, bright, sunny, calm, 72 degrees.  Tortoise rating:  5.4.  HumanaFit doesn't go below category 5 and didn't rate this walk.

For a map, more pictures, and detail of calories consumed and burned today, please click below to continue reading ...

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You get here by taking the dirt road slight right headed south on Utah highway 59
just past the stop sign at the end of Sheep Bridge Rd. on the left.  Go 0.8 miles, pass
the cattle guard, and in another 0.3 miles you will be driving towards my black Impala
on the road to the left in the picture above.  (If you continue you will soon reach the former
location of Diamond Ranch Academy.  Or you can do a 315 degree turn and head down the
left road above towards the north end of the Goulds Rim Trail (more on that another day)

If you are following the generally recommended counter clockwise loop of the various trails
in the Hurricane Cliffs system and are finishing the connector road from the Goulds Rim Trail
at this intersection with the two roads shown above, the only help you will get from these signs
shown in this picture is to look somewhere near the "rough corral" noted in the small rectangular
sign near the ground.  If you look closely you will see something that looks like the sign
 to the right here.  Go to it. It will be the sign you are looking for.

Here's what the sign looks like when you get past the rough corral.  The BLM map
makes it look like you would see this sign right at the road junction, it's actually
0.08 miles to the east.  If you continue 2.3 miles you will reach Utah Highway 59
directly across from the JEM Trailhead.  (For a map and description, please click here.)

View back past the rough corral to the cars from the start of the Goulds Trail.

Today's walk takes us 0.7 miles down this rough dirt road to the Goulds Rim
Trailhead.  You can drive a car on it, carefully, but you might also enjoy parking
 where I did and walking the connector road and then continuing on the trail.

Information at the Gould's Rim Trailhead.  Rough parking area, but no restrooms
here.  I think the map on this sign is more useful in some ways than the BLM map,
because it leaves off a couple roads shown on the BLM map that no longer exist.
That clarifies things, at least for me, if you're trying to find your way to the right trailhead.

The official beginning of the Gould's Rim Trail.  Sign says it is 3.0 miles long.
BLM map indicates 3.14 miles.  Either way, you will need to plan to retrace
your steps when done, have a car at the other end, or continue on 2.24 miles
on the connector road back to the Hurricane Hill Trailhead on Highway 59.
(and arrange to have someone meet you there)

Beautfiul view to the east returning to the car from Gould's Rim Trailhead

The entire length of the Pine Valley Mountains make a majestic backdrop
as you walk north on a part of the return trip to where I left my car.

The little white buildings are the former location of Diamond Ranch Academy,
a little over a mile to the southeast as viewed from my path

Terrific views in all directions.  This one is of the Kolob Terrace section
of Zion National Park, looking northeast from the path.

Calorie Goal: 2,277 Calories Consumed: 2,388 Calories Burned: 246 Net Calories: 2,142

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
9 Grain Bread	0.50	50	1g	0mg	90mg	10g	2g	2g	2g
Youngevity Ultimate Classic Dietary Supplement	1.00	40	0g	0mg	0mg	9g	9g	0g	0g
Youngevity Ultimate Osteo-fx	1.00	0	0g	0mg	0mg	0g	0g	0g	0g
Youngevity Oxy-Rich Toddy	1.00	23	0g	0mg	0mg	6g	6g	0g	0g
Youngevity Z Radical Fucoidani Zed	1.00	15	0g	0mg	0mg	15g	3g	0g	0g
Homemade Chicken and Rice	1.00	143	1g	51mg	325mg	10g	0g	0g	21g
Quaker Quaker Instant Oatmeal, Original	1.00	100	2g	0mg	75mg	19g	0g	3g	4g
Quaker Apple and Cinnamon Instant Oatmeal	1.00	130	2g	0mg	190mg	27g	9g	3g	3g
Renew Life Organic Triple Fiber	1.00	40	1g	0mg	0mg	5g	0g	4g	3g
Dannon Activia Peach	1.00	120	2g	5mg	60mg	22g	19g	0g	4g
Projoba Pollen Burst	1.00	50	0g	0mg	0mg	15g	10g	0g	0g
Youngevity Renu IQ Adaptogenix	1.00	10	0g	0mg	0mg	3g	3g	0g	0g
Costco Rotisserie Chicken Noodle Soup	1.00	110	3g	15mg	909mg	14g	3g	1g	8g
Hawaiian Pan Pizza	1.50	330	12g	23mg	780mg	42g	5g	2g	14g
Fazzoli's Restaurant Garlic Bread Sticks	0.50	75	4g	0mg	145mg	10g	1g	1g	2g
Birthday Cake	1.00	310	16g	10mg	220mg	41g	27g	1g	2g
Breyers Ice Cream Cookies & Cream With Oreo	1.00	160	8g	20mg	85mg	20g	14g	0g	2g
McDonald's Premium McWrap Chicken & Ranch (Crispy)	0.90	522	26g	54mg	1,161mg	50g	6g	3g	23g
McDonald's Hi-C Orange Drink (small size)	1.00	160	0g	0mg	35mg	42g	42g	0g	0g
Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 3.5 mph (17 min/mi)	28.0	-246.0
Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		2,142	76g	178mg	4,075mg	359g	158g	18g	88g

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/thedailyplate/diary/who/#ixzz2jYBO1Pig

Glasses of water: 6

No 4 mg Chlortrimeton allergy pills, 2 excedrin, and 4 aspirin today.  I took my prescribed 10 mg Zetia, 500 mg Metformin, 10 MEQ of Potassium Chloride, and my 20 mg crestor. No Nutrilite vitamins today.