Rock in the Glen (WY)

Rock in the Glen.

 

On the way back to Casper from the Ayers Bridge, we stopped at Rock in the Glen, a famous stop on the Oregon and Mormon Trails where countless travelers defaced the rock by carving their names and dates—a highly discouraged practice, of course, in todays so-called modern age.  Kit Carson and John C. Fremont camped here in 1842.  What we weren’t expecting was how gorgeous the place was, especially in the sun-setting, horizontal light beneath a penultimate Western sky, blue-bright and bulging with cumulus clouds that threatened to grow into thunderheads.  The marked trailhead can be found in, of all places, Glenrock.