Yesterday was a goof-off day! We didn't get up early, we didn't rush to go anywhere and then we played golf in the hottest part of the day and enjoyed it! It is so dry here that 96 degrees feels like 85. We even went out to eat dinner at the Sunset Grill located on the side of a canyon wall over looking Moab and the setting sun.
We have been real hesitant to take any of the off-road trails around here as they are all listed as difficult - black diamonds! We tried to find a guide to go with us, but they were too busy. We visited with some neighboring campers but they stuck to the easy stuff so we picked an easier difficult trail and took off on our own.
We crawled along on Fins and Things Trail. Fins are long stretches of slickrock boulders that one can drive along the top but getting up and down can be a real trick. This trail was only about 10 miles long but it took us over 3 hours to drive it and we saw no other Jeeps until the very end. We went up some rocks that were so vertical that it felt like we were going to tip over backward. And then we had to go down! It took about 6 steep declines before we figured out how to stop scraping the bottom of the Jeep. And the harder the trail the more John LOVED it! He kept picking the hardest route up and down. WOO-HOO! What a day!
1 comment:
The pictures you are posting are just beautiful. Thank you for keeping us up to date on all the exciting side trips you are taking. Looking forward to seeing you when you make it back our way.
Mickey
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