The weekend of 10 Oct 09, I decided to head off by myself to Robber's Roost in southern Utah.  It was

a long weekend, and Tracy couldn't take off on Monday, so I decided Robber's Roost would be a good

trip to take by myself.  After getting about 15 minutes from the house, though, I started thinking that

maybe I shouldn't get into a desert canyon alone.  So I changed my mind and headed to the Deep

Creeks in western Utah.  Of course, any time I change the plan, nothing good happens, and I always

seem to change the plan when I'm by myself on long weekends.  But I drove out to Tom's Canyon

(Google Map) where we had gone right after we had moved to Utah four years earlier.  The weather was

great, and I didn't see one single human being the rest of the day after I left the paved road.  I drove up

as far as I could get in the canyon, and then hiked up the steep trail into a nice valley.  Once I got into

the valley, I just couldn't resist the urge to enjoy the solitude and warmth and wind in the quaking

aspen, so I sat and read for several hours.  It was really, really nice up there.  When I first started

hiking, I decided that the Deep Creeks weren't all that special for as long as it took to drive to them, and

for as steep and dusty as the trail was.  But the fact that I didn't see another person and it was

considerably warmer than the Uintas that weekend, the Deep Creeks grew on me.  The area also

reminded me a lot of the South Platte area in Colorado, so that was nice.  It eventually started getting

cool, though, and I decided I didn't feel like spending the weekend out there by myself, so I headed

back to the truck and drove back home.

On 12 Oct 09, the actual holiday, I headed out to Causey Reservoir and had a great hike around the

lake.