We got up in our beautiful campground, and went to the visitor center for a guided hike on the Alcove nature trail. We chatted some with a family from the Netherlands.
After lunch, we headed out to tour the monument. We stopped at various overlooks that took our fancy.
Richard had it in his mind that he wanted to see if there was a way to Saddlehorn campground without going through the tunnels. It turns out that there is, through the Glade Park area. Unfortunately, it was a bumpy, twisty road that connects back to the east Monument entrance road near Broadway in Grand Junction, involving "D" road, Rosedale road, and Little Park road. We gassed up in Grand Junction, and then headed back into the park via the East Entrance, which has one tunnel. We stopped to walk a little of the Serpents Trail, but were disconcerted to see the sign indicating that Mountain Lions had been seen in the area, so we did not go far from the car.
We did take a walk to the end of Otto's trail, with beautiful views of the canyons.
Marianne cooked a good pork dinner.
After dark, Richard went out alone to get some moonlight photographs. Unfortunately, his camera did not do well with just moonlight. Richard kept looking over his shoulder to see if there were any mountain lions about, especially since there was no one around, and mountain lions are nocturnal.
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