Why I go off-road

[Pathrat]

Here is the overlook to the destination...wanna guess the location?

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x102/pathrat40/doesntlookreal.jpg

[DETN8R]

huh?

[Funrover]

Nice pic, Moab?

[Pathrat]

You are close Funrover.

Do I send rocks to the person who guesses, or are rocks bad to send??? I am all ignorant of such things.

[Pathrat]

huh?


maybe a more grammatically correct way would be for me to say this was the overlook at the end, hence being the destination of this particular Utah trail. :)

[4Runninfun]

Thats beautiful, i have no clue where i'd guess Hole in the rock?. And rocks are a good thing!

[Patrolman]

Gonna say Utah but not Moab? Bryce?

[Pathrat]

I'll tell the next time I log on. I will be in surgery Wed and recovering this weekend so I will be stuck here, not moving, with the laptop.

Thanks! Bryce...no.

All of you could kick my FJ's bumper getting to this spot. It is within 60 miles of Moab. Here is another shot:

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x102/pathrat40/TOWview2.jpg

[Patrolman]

That pic looks more like Island in the Sky but the White Rim Road doesn't have an "end" destination. I have never been to Bryce but hear it is great! I have been into the Maze but never been to the Maze overlook. That is the only part I haven't been too. Just doesn't look like Maze area though. Rocks are to jagged.

[Funrover]

I really need to get to UT, Top of the World?

[SCRubicon]

Shafer Trail?

[Patrolman]

My original thought was Shafer Trail, but that is part of the White Rim Road loop in Island in the Sky. Also, the Shafer Trail would show the road below.

[Pathrat]

FUNROVER WINS! I don't know what you win though. Maybe some human-grade superglue to close small wounds, to go in your first aid kit? (benefits of working in a hospital) And yes, you do need to go to the Moab area. I'll tell you when we go next, which won't be soon enough.

The picture is from the overlook at Top of the World trail, before you turn around. I was truly amazed at the view. I hear there is a trail at the bottom where all the spires are, but I don't know which one, much less how to get there. That was the trail where I made all the obstacles, but backed into a tree and dented my back hatch. I learned how to do touch up automotive paint! I gotta watch trees, that's two dents from trees. Then, when we got back to the trail head and got the tank out, I learned that I had blown the valve and couldn't connect the hose. I had a spare compressor I usually keep in the Mazda and managed to get up to 30psi. I want to go back.

Patrolman, you have been to the Maze? My family is meeting my mom and her husband for a four day trip into the Maze the first week of June, to include the Spanish Steps, the Dollhouse, and some godforsaken 9 mile hike to the Confluence. I'm looking forward to it. Will you post a pic from your trip?

[Chris]

Barb and I love Top of the World and always go there before the Cruise Moab event starts. We're thinking of spending the night there this trip. First time there I tore my passenger side mirror off, amazing what you can damage on an easy trail.

:oops:

[Funrover]

WOO HOO I WON I WON!!

[Pathrat]

Barb and I love Top of the World and always go there before the Cruise Moab event starts. We're thinking of spending the night there this trip. First time there I tore my passenger side mirror off, amazing what you can damage on an easy trail.

:oops:


There looked to be some good campsites all along that route. Yeah, ooops. :) Easy trail? Like my icon says, I am a newbie. I had people watching on ATVs, thinking that I was experienced but since I'm not, it took some effort. It was a good trail for me to do but I did chicken out at the sandy downhill after the overlook.

[Chris]

Next time you go you'll call it easy too. ;)

I'm originally a flatlander from the Midwest, Barb and I get a big chuckle out of what once was scary but now isn't much more than a bump in the road. We bought our FJ62 after being stopped in our Avalon on mountain roads. After getting it we went back to the same places and she refused to believe me when I showed her what were once "obstacles." :P

[Pathrat]

Thanks for the words of wisdom. It was kind of that way when I did Klondike and Tower Arch the second time. First time is when I incurred my first damage ever (since backing my mom's Mazda into the carport frame), a chewed up mud flap. I have since ripped that off but I saved it, after I sharpied the locale. ;D That was when I was bone stock except for Geolander MTs.

here is the 'before' picture.

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x102/pathrat40/Copyoftruck1.jpg