Cruise Moab 2012 Pictures

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This fin is pretty . You drive along the narrow fin, there is a line painted on the rock at about 90 degrees to the way you are traveling, have to do multi-point turn to line the rig up with the line, then drive off the edge, blind. It's much steeper than it looks, from the driver's seat it looks like a cliff!

 

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A drop into a wash, then Zuki Hill.

 

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More..

 

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The step section. This trail has a bunch of steps, that on most other trails would be named, be a feature obstacles, people would talk about making X name step. On this trail just another unnamed step among a hundred or so significant steps.

 

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Be careful, the rock face is watching!

Behind where azTony is in the 2nd pic, is a step, well a bunch of steps. One that looks easy from the driver's seat, if you drive it wrong, puts the driver tire in a huge hole, causing a big passenger wheel lift, are already way off camber to driver, so most uncomfortable. I have been there, according to the spotters who got him out, Shannon almost put his rig on it's lid, so now treat it with respect!

 

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This step always produces good pix and is fun!

 

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Peeking over the edge at Arches.

 

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The Crack is said to be the most photographed obstacle in the world, with good reason!

 

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Juan saw/took the LCPhil line, so easily won the biggest wheelie contest. Unfortunately I spotted him out, so missed the shot.

 

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Golden Stairs, I find them almost impossible to run clean, properly.

Yes, my rig was there.

 

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Butt Scratcher Ledge.

 

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Had four capable rigs with experienced drivers, so hit the exit wash a little after 3pm! Decided to make the left turn to Gemini Bridges. It is longer, but prefer this exit to going out Gold Bar Rd.

 

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... Was there much game in the areas you explored/drove through?

Is this what you are looking for?

 

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... Was there much game in the areas you explored/drove through?

Actually, I came inches from running over a deer, again. Could likely fill a rig with deer carcass, but would want hoops on your front bumper, to keep damage to a minimum while participating in that type of activity?

 

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Butt Scratcher Ledge.

My truck did the '40-thing' on Butt Scratcher this time:

I line up on the right side, at a slight angle so as to make contact with the ledge with the driver's side tires first. Front goes up as planned, I bump it as the rear gets to the ledge, and the truck hops the rear over to the right to square itself to the ledge before it goes up.

Somehow, I've seen that move before...

 

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Had four capable rigs with experienced drivers, so hit the exit wash a little after 3pm! Decided to make the left turn to Gemini Bridges. It is longer, but prefer this exit to going out Gold Bar Rd.

Is this Bull Canyon down there?

 

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Is this Bull Canyon down there?

Yes, the second pic is Bull Canyon.

 

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On Thursday we ran the traditional trail, Golden Spike. This time a few of us ran it "wildcat" the goal was to find the "Where Eagles Dare" alternate route, found it, but didn't run it.

There were several groups starting at the same time that we did, including the large "official" group. Made some time in the beginning, to get ahead of them, so few pix of the first obstacles.

The first optional climb.

I was expecting the worst - the 'official CM run' seemed to be 22 trucks w/o me, Drew, and Glen, then there were 6 or so Jeeps, you guys, and at least 6 Broncos...

But everything went surprisingly smooth... first time I saw you guys was when you were across the crack while the back end of the main run just went around the corner above the Crack (of course, after that I was under my truck to remove the blown shock).

Re W.E.D., we saw two sets of marks (white rectangle...) come off the main Golden Spike trail:
The first set turning off to the left after Skyline Drive and the first little slickrock descent, but before the drop into the wash; second set just beyond the slickrock section after Zuki Hill (where Robbie turned left on the CM run 2 years ago).

Some random posts I found on the Web (but no GPS track...) say W.E.D. is short... is that it - going up in the slickrock to the left of Zuki Hill, and then coming back to the main trail?

 

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... Re W.E.D., we saw two sets of marks (white rectangle...) come off the main Golden Spike trail:
The first set turning off to the left after Skyline Drive and the first little slickrock descent, but before the drop into the wash; second set just beyond the slickrock section after Zuki Hill (where Robbie turned left on the CM run 2 years ago).

On the first one, near Skyline, we were denied by a tight rocky climb, too narrow for our full size rigs. The second one looked good, but by then we had screwed around too much, the other groups were on us, again.

Some random posts I found on the Web (but no GPS track...) say W.E.D. is short... is that it - going up in the slickrock to the left of Zuki Hill, and then coming back to the main trail?

Yep, short, rejoins in the steps, close to/before the crack. It has some significant slickrock work. Nick ran it and reports that it is all of that, very steep/tall!

 

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On the first one, near Skyline, we were denied by a tight rocky climb, too narrow for our full size rigs.

Out trail leader (in a minitruck-buggy, with rather familiar-looking axles...) turned left, ran the first squeeze climb. Next in line were few 80's, and it was , really, that's the trail...?? We kept to the regular 'Spike after that...