APRIL MOAB TRIP

[ketcat]

timgco,

You know I’m in on the trip. So keep me on the list.

ketcat

As for the people who don’t like Moab, think it’s easy, ugly or whatever……

They didn’t have to post anything on this tread. Maybe they are just jealous that our $30,000.00 trucks perform much better than they expected.

[KenP]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by nmikes:
I'm just starting a new job in DC so don't know if I'm going to be able to make it out, but I definately would like to be in the loop just in case my schedule opens up. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>Oh hush, I'll meet you along I64 and we'll caravan on out.

[westhillsat]

Tim,

Please add me to the list for April.

westhillsat

Thanks

[CO Hummer]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Grandman:
Sorry it has been some years and i dont recall the names of all the trails </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

HaHa! Ummm. We've heard that before. The classic "I've wheeled Moab but can't remember the trails" bull. Pritchett Arch? That like riding on country road. After the group finished with Moab last year we ran that trail like a Sunday drive. It can't be more than a 2 rating.

You are an idiot, Grandma. Anyone going to Moab, running the trails we've run, must be fully prepared for the possibility of body damage and pounding the crap out of the bottom of your rig. You give every newb the impression that they will cake walk everything. Sure, they will if they ride the easy trails like you did. I think you probably did Kane Creek on that third trip you mentioned. Years ago it was a 3 rated trail but wash out and heavy use has significantly increased it's difficulty over the last few years.

Since you are the self-professed "new guy", why don't you shut your hole and butt out if you don't want to be a part of it. Don't start with that "you guys are so close minded just because I offered my option" crap. Don't you know that everyone sees your intent is to look cool and try to impress? Sorry. It's not working, bud.

[ShaggyX]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by BABHUMV:
If timing is right, Babhumv will be there. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>ShaggyZr2 wonders if you always refer to yourself in the third person.

[KenP]

Kane Creek was a blast. We had a Jeep tag along for most of it and had to pull him from the creek once. He also took a very longtime getting up what we called "F*** you Hill".

Check out the pics here. The very first pic is of the easy section where there had been a rock slide. Our big trucks had actually pivot on a rock in one place to stay a foot or so away from the ginormous drop off... With the fron right on stacked rock!

Potato Salad hill every H2 that tried it when right up.

[HummerNewbie]

Man what a great trip but damn, 33 hours and 2200 miles each way

[wannabeH3]

haha right click save as on that bitch

[NoMoGMPG]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Grandman:

Alec , i only made one trip out there so i did not run all the trails , I was there on an Easter safari week end with a huge group and ran 3 of the trials , The trails i was on were rated 3 and 4 according to the organizers of that event . I ran them in a 94 Grand with 2" lift and one locker . Certainly not a hard core wheeler to run there 4 rated trails with .

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Once? You were there once and you condemn it as rookieville?

Do you care to realize that there are over 1000 miles of trails currently open to OHV, with at least 1000 miles more that have been locked out as wilderness study areas? You maybe saw 20 miles of trails tops! You sir, are a pinhead and are not qualified to comment. E-wheeler.

[f5fstop]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Grandman:
The last started in a park and wound down the the desert floor , when you looked back up you couldnt see the trail you came down at all . If you know the area well you most likely know the trails im speaking of . </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

If the park you are mentioning is Canyonlands, and it was a switchback road that you enter just as you enter the park, it was probably Schafer trail, that linked up to White Rim and Potash roads at the floor of the canyon above the Colorado River.
If it was straight and near Schafer trail, and had a bolder making an arch across the road, halfway down, it was Long Canyon Road.
Great roads for some photographs, but not what I would consider tough (hell, Michigan's paved roads are worse). I have been up both in high-clearance two-wheel drive pickup trucks, and Long Canyon can be traversed with a Lexus all-wheel drive SUV, just some decent ground clearance.
The other from town sounds like Kane Creek, and as someone already pointed out, that has become harder each year. Having only been there in the summer, never saw any water that could cause any problems. You turn by the McDonalds to get to Kane Creek (I believe).
I hate to say it, those are not the roads these guys are talking about. Someone said they puckered when traversing some of these trails. I got news for him, I could not pucker because something was trying to exit at the same time.
I never felt that way at Windrock or Tellico. Yes those are some nasty roads that can tear a vehicle apart, but these so-called off-roads around Moab can kill you, and destroy a vehicle.

I give anyone credit for traveling these trails, but to do it in a 30K plus H3 or better yet a 50K plus H2 shows some balls. To do it in a vehicle you have to drive home deserves even more credit.

[f5fstop]

Done the drive from TN and MI to Moab quite a few times and yes, it is quite a trip; but worth it.
Can't make this one.

Now, I have spent four years photographing the Moab area, and find something new every time. But it is not for everyone. Many hate the desert, and for me that is great, since I plan on moving to Moab in four years. Less people, the better. I find that area breathtaking, and find MI the most un-interesting state I have ever lived in (and that includes NY, CO, TN). Sorry Michiganders, but that is my opinion of this state.

But the trails in Moab are as tough as anything Windrock (TN) or Tellico (NC) has to offer. Windrock and Tellico are rough , especially in the spring when it is pure mud rocks. (I will say, it is a lot easier cleaning sand off the Jeep after I returned from Moab, then cleaning packed on mud after leaving Windrock one spring weekend.)
Even though Windrock and Tellico are challenging so are Hell's Revenge, and potato salad, and I did these in my Jeep, and yes, I carried extra half-shafts with me, and made sure there was a few winches in the group (wenches too if available )

Which reminds me...TIMCO, you still want what I offered a week ago? If so, send me your address via PM and I'll mail it.

[HummBebe]

Bebe Rhino

[HummBebe]

RIGHT ON!!

Most excellent!

[KenP]

If you're coming from the EAST, please let me know. We're trying to organize a caravan.

PM's work, or you can "quote" and add your name here:
East to West

We are hooking up with folks in OH...

[Grandman]

beauty is in the eye of the beholeder . I dont like the desert , every thing looks the same . See the 1st mile you seen it all . Thats a matter of preference though .

Iv been to Moab , Slick rock ! about as slick as rough concrete . You can pull some wild angles with the traction there is there .

Take a boulder and put some mud on it and the challenge goes way up . Tellico trails in NC and Tenn for me thanks .

Its my oppionion rookies find Moab a challenge , If you have little off road experience you will enjoy it there .

[timgco]

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