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Driving to Moab...
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Leaving my new-to-me truck aside for now, to me, this picture is pretty much quintessential for these exploration trips:
Here's the road, the scenery is awesome; the road doesn't look that bad, but who knows where it goes, and how will it be just around the next corner, and the corner after that, and it's probably two more hours just like that, and that's only halfway for today... and yes, I have an accurate map, and a laptop/GPS in the truck right next to me, and I've read all the interwebs with the usual yeah/nay nonsense of the know-it-alls-behind-some-keyboard-somewhere...
But you'll never know how it really feels until you turn around that corner by yourself, until you realize how surprising by the colors really are, until you breathe the dust, until you grasp the distances and dimensions...
Here's a shot conveying a similar feeling, from a trip in 2010, coming into the Canyonlands National Park Needles District from Beef Basin: no problem, everything is smooth, the rocks are awesome, but you'll never know what awaits around that next corner...
I'll leave you with this one for now, shot 2 years ago:
...of course, the wheeling in southern Utah is awesome - no doubt at all. But I'd encourage everyone to keep the eyes open along the way - with all the land access battles underway in that part of the country, one never knows whether there's another chance to revisit a particular spot...
Here's the road, the scenery is awesome; the road doesn't look that bad, but who knows where it goes, and how will it be just around the next corner, and the corner after that, and it's probably two more hours just like that, and that's only halfway for today... and yes, I have an accurate map, and a laptop/GPS in the truck right next to me, and I've read all the interwebs with the usual yeah/nay nonsense of the know-it-alls-behind-some-keyboard-somewhere...
But you'll never know how it really feels until you turn around that corner by yourself, until you realize how surprising by the colors really are, until you breathe the dust, until you grasp the distances and dimensions...
Here's a shot conveying a similar feeling, from a trip in 2010, coming into the Canyonlands National Park Needles District from Beef Basin: no problem, everything is smooth, the rocks are awesome, but you'll never know what awaits around that next corner...
I'll leave you with this one for now, shot 2 years ago:
...of course, the wheeling in southern Utah is awesome - no doubt at all. But I'd encourage everyone to keep the eyes open along the way - with all the land access battles underway in that part of the country, one never knows whether there's another chance to revisit a particular spot...
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Freakin awesome dude
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WOW! AWESOME! What a killer way to start my lazy Sunday but to go on a Sweet inter web wheeling trip. Those pictures are so full of natural colors and the geography is just breath taking. Thanks man, Thanks. I do believe with those pictures I will have no trouble talking my wife into a trip out there.
With July 4th said and done, feels like Blazer Bash is just around the corner.
Yup, it is...
If you have 3D on the schedule, then check out Mashed Potato. That trail is a legal (aka it's on an official BLM map...) 'cutoff' of a loop of 3D. It was all slickrock, climbs and descents the size of one truck, not too hard, but a lot of fun.
That sounds interesting. I think I've heard of it before. That one and the Pickle, which is a little more on the extreme side.
It's short (1.6 miles maybe), and it's either nose in the sky, or in the ground, not much else. I've had both lockers clicked in on several occasions, but that was mostly due to the fact that I was in front, did the 'self-spotting' thing, and wanted to make sure I didn't spin a tire at an inopportune moment. Methinks the front locker wasn't really necessary, but since I have it...
Everything is pretty much square - no real off-camber stuff, and no fall-off-the-cliff places. I/we didn't do the optional hot tub; that looked pretty knarly compared to the rest of the trail. It starts and ends at the 3D trail, which is really scenic with one interesting climb in the sky. You can reach Mashed Potato without driving all of 3D, there's a dirt road access that bypasses the part of 3D where Pickle is...
Everything is pretty much square - no real off-camber stuff, and no fall-off-the-cliff places. I/we didn't do the optional hot tub; that looked pretty knarly compared to the rest of the trail. It starts and ends at the 3D trail, which is really scenic with one interesting climb in the sky. You can reach Mashed Potato without driving all of 3D, there's a dirt road access that bypasses the part of 3D where Pickle is...
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Very awesome pictures! I haven't been on here for a while so I missed this. I also miss wheel'in with you. I still always get a big grin 
when the low-rider song comes on!! I'm sure one of these days will get back together. No BB for me this year for the 1st time.
when the low-rider song comes on!! I'm sure one of these days will get back together. No BB for me this year for the 1st time.Very awesome pictures! I haven't been on here for a while so I missed this. I also miss wheel'in with you. I still always get a big grin
I miss it as well, although I have to admit I haven't played the Lowrider song in a while. No Bash for me; I just got back from Germany, so vacation time is in short supply.
But: I'll have a photo exhibition in my home town in the summer of 2014, two months, vernissage, the whole thing. Methinks I'll try and sneak a truck picture in there somewhere...
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And you have many awesome truck shots too!! Sneak it in 
Who knows, maybe one of these days I'll be heading by your place again? Maybe 2014???
Who knows, maybe one of these days I'll be heading by your place again? Maybe 2014???
