Day Twelve – Saturday 26th
April
Jacob
Lake
(View from near Jacob’s Lake, AZ)
It was raining when we left Marble
Canyon and headed up out of the valley into the mountains of the Kaibab
National Forrest, but the higher we climbed the colder it got and soon a good
couple of inches of snow were covering the ground, demonstrating the harshness
of this environment. The weather is unpredictable, if you look carefully at the
picture you can see the desert contrasting with the snow. It’s hard to imagine
what it was like for the original settlers and they managed to cope with the
huge swings in weather systems.
(Toilet in Jacob Lake)
When I went
to use the toilet in the Jacob Lake Lodge I noticed this sign over the urinal,
asking customers to only flush once in order to conserve water, highlighting
again the water troubles in the South West. Although with the snowfall Jacob
Lake must receive throughout the winter you’d think that water wouldn’t be an
issue as they would have the snowmelt, but yet it clearly remains an issue if
they are trying to conserve water.
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