Cruise Moab 2011 Pictures

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Photos courtesy of Claudia, by the way...
There is an alternate line, further down the hill - longer drop, about just as steep but not offcamber, varies in ugliness in the few years since it was created...
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Good to see I'm not the only guy to get an 80 airborne off of Launchpad.:eek::hillbilly:
 
ChaseTruck said:
Yeah, well. In all these years, I can't remember anyone who managed to get both front tires off the ground... except for you :D
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Yeah well:meh:, there was water in the bottom and I wasn't about to let off the throttle once I was vertical.:hillbilly:
 
I came through after Claudia and the focus was on her rig and the battery in our camera died. That was the angle that is the cool shot. Bummer, maybe next year!!
 
I carry a second camera battery; Kevin swears by cameras that use AAs.

On to the Golden Stairs....
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Everyone was on the regular line - straight up, don't hit Robby's Rock at the top - until Phil declared that not being offcamber towards the driver's side would feel weird now after a whole day of this, and drove a new line... it worked really well, but I'd be scared to try that in my K5 :eek:
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Too busy being focused on getting out - no pics of any of the obstacles on the way up to the rim. I think everyone bypassed the Whammy and the Body Snatcher. Maybe one of these years we need to do just a Crack'n-Back run for a little more playtime?

Just a few shots on the way down from Gold Bar Rim, which is a slickrock trail now...
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... and the last pic from the shelf road towards Arches NP as the evening sun is busy painting the rocks :grinpimp:
Colorful end to a fabulous day on one of my favorite trails; thanks to everyone for a memorable experience.
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This is our Google Earth file of the trip (most of it)

Bummer... Too big for the site. Sorry for the tease, I will break it up later and post.
 
Friday - hung out in camp for a while, Drew had encountered much bigger problems than anticipated from the original issue on Thursday :frown:
Phil went his way on Friday, and we said our goodbyes; after that, we ran Top of the World. The trail has gotten significantly rougher as dirt got washed away in recent years (similar to many other Moab trails), revealing countless rock ledges, some little, some a bit bigger.

On this trail, we end up at a cliff's edge at 7024', about 18.6 miles east of Moab as the bird flies. The drop is a long ways down - the three little towers in the lower left side of the first pic are at 5656'.
Just for reference, where we left the Colorado River at Dewey Bridge, the elevation is 4124'; turnoff southwards on the trail off the main dirt road is at 5045', so the trail itself climbs about 2000' towards the rim.

In the first pic, the area that appears gray-ish/green, between the red rocks in the valley and the rim on the other side, is a salt dome - learned that from Ross :). LaSal mountains in the back. Yellow line in the Google Earth screenshot is Hwy 128 in the Colorado River valley.
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This is one spot where stuff is hard to fit in a camera, even with the wide-angle lens...

I was walking further south along the rim to find yet another perspective when there was a crack in the rock. When I saw daylight far down in the crack, I decided not to step on the other side...
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I will never forget top of the world. That is the furthest I ever drove to do PM on the rig :D
 
ChaseTruck said:
We need to be careful not to take that "repair-shop-with-a-view" thing too far...
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Well, after Flagstaff, Golden Crack, and Top of the World, how much "farther" can we get?? Oh, wait a minute, I suppose if we do the Maze next year.........would that qualify???
 
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