I forgot to add this photo in my previous post, "Camping near the Dolores River Overlook Trail"
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate
links, including eBay, Amazon, Skimlinks, and others.
View attachment 1411870 View attachment 1411869 View attachment 1411868 View attachment 1411866 Hello all,
My name is Ray Romero and I am from the Thornton CO area. This will be my first Cruise Moab event/trip. I will be bringing along my buddy Andres as a co-pilot. My wife is currently 5 months pregnant with our first child, a little girl. She was so kind to give me a hall pass and go on this trip before our baby is born. My rig is a 94 Land Pig, equiped with factory lockers. I bought it sight un-seen from a dealer in Salt lake barebones stock in 2012. Every year since I have been adding a few things here and there. Look forward to meeting all of you in person.
Nice to informally meet you Matt. You are correct we do have a livinlite 6.0 with the off-road package and rear deck. Its kind of crazy, the trailer has about as much ground clearance as My truck. My wife and I got it last September and we love it. We have only got to use it once before it got really cold in the Colorado high country. I won't be taking it with me on the Kokopelli trip. I'm still a newb in terms of towing and maneuvering a trailer around. I lack the skills necessary to tow a trailer On a narrow trail. But hopefully I will be able to improve soon and start doing some more remote trailer camping.
I wanted to share this for all of the other 80 series owners if they didn't already know, but in the Nov-Dec 2015 issue of Toyota Trails there was an article on breaking or shearing the knuckle stud bolts off which basically renders your steering useless. One of the incidents actually happened on the kokopelli trail. It looks like a fairly inexpensive kit to buy and somewhat easy to replace in the event the bolts were to shear off. I will be purchasing a kit from my local Toyota parts department so if anyone happens to have this issue on the trail we are taken care of.
View attachment 1415907 View attachment 1415908
good article, have not seen that. I would add to carry some pb blaster, a torch and some vice grips to get the broken studs out, possibly even a grinder to cut a groove in the top of the stud if it happens to shear off flat with the knuckle.
good article, have not seen that. I would add to carry some pb blaster, a torch and some vice grips to get the broken studs out, possibly even a grinder to cut a groove in the top of the stud if it happens to shear off flat with the knuckle.
Stan, I am a ham, but do not currently have a rig in the truck. The dreaded (for old school hams...) CB radio has worked well for trail use, but I am curious what bands you plan to use on the Kokopelli. 2meters? What rig are you using?
Michael
WD6EHQ
Susan and I have been thrashing around the Moab area for years, and have quite a collection of "the usual suspects" maps. Our offroad and mountain biking activity usually tapers off about halfway up highway 128, and apparently none of our maps cover the Kokopelli trail in detail.
Does anyone have any suggestions about detailed maps which DO cover this area?
Thanks,
Michael
For those of you without sliders...... you will absolutely want to have them before this trip. Some of the ledges are 3+ feet tall. There is simply no way to avoid hitting your sliders. Your front wheels will go over the edge and you'll be teetering on your sliders until the front wheels reach the bottom of the ledge. We'll go down one ledge and around a rock that will eat your doors and door sills for sure.
This isn't the Rubicon by any means, but there are short sections that will test what you have. A rear bumper or at least a rear tow hitch is a good idea too. Some of the ledges are tall enough that you'll land on your rear bumper long before your rear wheels touch down. We can stack rocks if needed, but that's still risky since we have to stack them a few feet tall and they can slide away easily.
Looks like we have an experienced group. This should be a great trip!