Camping by Dinosaur Quarry & visit + campsite + setup tips

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I had never visited this dinosaur area before, the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, out on the desert so I decided to go out there and camp and also visit the quarry. Chilly temperatures still prevailed even though it was almost May, lots of wind also. At camp I set up my PD Shelter over the fire, put up my Olive Green xWide Poncho as a hammock and with temperatures into the 20's F I snapped on an under quilt and also wrapped a blanket (PSBL survival blanket) around it all. I slept like a dream, it was perfect. I used soft shackles and whoopie slings to hang the hammock. I went through the visitors center at the Cleveland Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry and hiked around on the trails. It was a fun trip. See the gear used on our website HTTP://wildernessinnovation.com

Tags: dinosaur,quarry,cleveland-lloyd,utah,camping,hammock,poncho,under quilt,survival blanket,desert,fire,cooking,bushcraft

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well it's for April 29th well most me it's a that snow flurries yesterday it was a 29 this morning when I got up and it's finally got up to 40 now this morning but out here on the desert where I'm at

it's very very windy and I had intended to have just a kind of an open fire but it's so windy that the flames just blow horizontal across the ground so I finally decided well I got to put up some kind of windbreak for this thing so this kind of stuff here now helps make it so the flame can kind of come up a little bit get it straight across so here's why I slept right here between these two juniper trees and I use my Whoopie slings and my soft shackles to hang up with inhale it's been I'm going to give me some breakfast on now say what these are our cooking irons this is the long set 36 inches so I've got me some good fire in here the coals in here about six inches deep down in here so I got plenty of heat down there to cook with and these cooking irons are like our cooking sticks for backpacking and they just have a ni in an offset U and that connects the two together so you can make kind of a v-shape put my lodge cast-iron frypan on there let that get heated up for French toast yes I'm doing French toast again I don't know I got addicted to this year somehow maybe it's because I'm lazy and it's really easy to make I'm going to hard-boil a couple eggs what I like to do that a lot of times the breakfast time and when I go hiking or something like that I can have them in my pack and can kind of be a little snack for out hiking around a little bit so I'm going to put my optimist weekender cup on there I'm going to put me a couple of eggs down in there and it's watch my videos before you know I like using these old saving these old pie tins so this works really nice alright this should be hot there we go what that thing get after it here well one sides done to see how the other looks well that's about right for me right there there you go I just like the sound of that I'll tell you as you can see in here it's a little on the windy side spend twenty to forty mile an hour winds here and the PD shelter makes it kind of nice helps hold in a little bit of heat and it helps calm things down a little bit along with my little wind block on the fire anyway here's me up later I didn't do sourdough this time so I'm really breaking the mold plus I'm using log cabin syrup instead of my chokecherry

syrup but y'all ready so often you got to do stuff different yeah breakfast is good can't complain about it a bit get me a little energy for the day right here got my nice cup of icy cold milk that's how I like my milk just almost ice crystals in it that my fire feels good got breakfast done and brunch or whatever you call it so anyway here I am at Cleveland Lois dinosaur Laurie and the beautiful view I'm up here on top of what's called Raptor point Diplodocus Camarasaurus stegasaurus now you recognize this guy right here sharp some of those bones are those teeth

want to go inside this building here is where they're showing the process of discovering the bones and quarrying them but this site is they say the most densely packed with dinosaur bones of any place in the world so this gives an idea of how bones are found that's not that early cattle ranchers or whatever may have seen bones sticking out that have washed that had washed away from erosion

even a dinosaur egg right here's the rib bone of a sauropod right here it's embedded in that kind of muddy Rock you know who would think that out here in this area like this you'd find the most dense section of dinosaur bones of anywhere in the world it kind of looks like anywhere else really this dark somewhat shiny coating on these rocks is commonly called desert varnish and it's actually a coating of iron and manganese oxide that actually attaches onto the rocks and gives them this kind of varnished look this is very common and this down in these desert areas [Music]

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a dinosaur thing behind here we'll say goodbye to the dinosaurs we leave alright well so this is my sleeping quarters last night when I got in here we'd had some snow flurries earlier the wind was blowing about like about like it is now 2030 miles an hour so temperature got down to about 28 degrees last time I looked last night so I I set up my hang here my hammock I set it up to deal with the wind and the chill enos now wind blowing last night kind of rocked this thing a little kind of like being in a rocking chair man was actually pretty nice so here I am inside my little pod type deal here got my blanket which is wrapped all the way around me it's the PS VL a large survival blanket

okay so this is on the foot end of the hammock here so basically what we're doing is we're collecting the end here put that shot cord around it to hold that closed that way the wind and stuff can't come through there alright so when I'm setting this thing up this just gets and I've got I've got two easy clip ladies on here there and there and that's what holds this front side okay so there we are and snaps up for the end right there all right now you see right here this is the course the hood to the poncho and what I always do is I just take and draw that up since you down with the cord lock now that closes the hood off completely so I'm sleeping in my clothes I empty whatever's in my pockets into there and it becomes kind of a pouch for me so that's what I do with to utilize the hood so anyway that's a fairly common tight setup than I do out camping and a lot of my camping is in juniper trees like this Utah's just full of them all over the deserts and everywhere and but anyway we're trying to make stuff that's adjustable to use pretty much wherever you're at and so this is this how I do it that's what I did you