Blanding, UT to Hite, UT, about 78 miles. Utah has some interesting landscapes. Went past huge cliffs and rock formations sticking straight out of the ground. It's really cool to see. The desert is a beautiful place, and it has a sweet smell to it. There were some clouds this morning and light sprinkles which kept it cool. There were no towns on the way to Hite, and by the afternoon it got very hot. The store in Hite was closed when I got there and the heat was getting to me, so I tried to go right to sleep. As I was lying in my tent, two people drove into the ranger station that I was camping at to dial 911. They had been hiking in a canyon and they went into a pool of water about 10 feet below the trail and some members of the group couldn't get back out after an hour and a half of trying to get them out. Only the two who showed up had made it out. The nearest town was 50 miles away and the sheriff took 1.5 hours to arrive. It was getting dark at that time and I don't know how the story resolved. There was talk of needing a helicopter to get them out of the canyon. In that time two people showed up in a car supporting their friend going east across the country on a road bike. He showed up a bit later and we talked for a while before they went off to camp just down the road. He's getting a PhD in Computer Science at Stanford.
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