1998 Northern Rockies Trip

Text on back of postcard:
SKELETON OF ALLOSAURUS
Dinosaur National Monumant
Fossil bones are heavy but fragile, so assembling them into
a skeleton can be difficult and may also damage them.
Lightweight fiberglass casts, made from molds of the actual
fossils, can be more readily mounted. The skull displayed
below is the actual fossil found in the Dinosaur Quarry, and
is the finest specimen of its kind.

My note to recipeint:
5/2 #1
As you can see from the "#" notation that I'm doing some
catch-up writing. We visited the dinos a few days back. Very cool.
This visitors center was built around the dig site and they
stopped digging. They have found ither sites with bones from the same
epoch. Recently they found a site with bones from an earlier epoch.
They're supposed to start that one as early as this week.
LOTS o' bones!

The main entrance to the Dinosaur National Monument is on the Utah side "near" Vernal. OK, it's about 100 miles from Vernal, UT. The campground -- specifically, the camp site -- where we stayed was near and overlooked the Green River.

From Mark's "Book of Doom"
Day 15: Saturday, May 30th
The Dinosaur Quarry is very cool - I've never seen so many bones in one place. Today we entered Utah- It's more mountainous on this side than on the west side. Oh, yeah: a ground squirrel snuck into our car at Dinosaur, and started eating our food. Steph chased him into the back seat, and eventually out of the car.

Stayed for the night at the Provo, UT KOA. Last laundry for me, I think. This "kampground" is conveniently located next to the highway, across from the railroad tracks - like all KOAs.

Text on back of postcard:
ANCIENT PETROGLYPHS AT CUB CREEK
A thousand years ago the Fremont people lived in what is now
Dinosaur National Monument. No one knows the meaning of their
rock art, but it is a legacy of a vanished culture. Please admire,
but do not touch or deface it.

My message to recipient:
As you can see from the "#" notation that I'm catching up all
at once. We camped along the Green River at the Dinosaur Nat'l Mon't a
few nights ago then saw all the petroglyphs and bones the following day.
I got the coolest T-shirt there. I've gotten several cool T-shirts
and a couple of books along the way. Spied many new flowers and several
new birds-- well... to me.

The awesomely-cool T-shirt is an embroidered thang. It depicts three moose gathered around the campfire in front of their tent. I claim it's us. There's a shorter moose roasting a marshmallow (Subrata), a taller moose roasting a marshmallow (Mark), and a taller moose just hanging out not roasting marshmallows (Scott). I'm the moose taking the picture. The reason the one without the marshmallow is Scott is that he doesn't eat them and would likely resort to flinging flaming marshmallows at the wildlife.