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profdant139
Explorer II
Nov 04, 2013

Utah or Ariz camping in Dec for the comet: advice?

Supposedly, Comet ISON may put up a show in early December -- comets are hard to predict. But if it does (and even if it doesn't!), I want to head to dark skies in the desert for some photos. So her...
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Pangaea_Ron
Explorer
Nov 05, 2013
profdant139

I'm not sure why you say that there is no hiking near The Goosenecks? I think that it's magnificent there.

I'd stay at The Goosenecks, drive up the Moki Dugway, and then out to Muley Point to watch the comet.

We camped next to a German couple that had traveled from Northern Alaska to Patagonia over 10 years in their Unimog. I directed them to Muley Point. We encountered them a few days later, and they said that was the best campsite that they had stayed in over their 10 years of travel.

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