Cruise Moab 2021 (1 Viewer)

[TheGrrrrr]

Eagle Canyon on the San Rafael Swell Overnight

Black Dragon Canyon - San Rafael Swell Overnight

Devil's Racetrack - San Rafael Swell Overnight

 

[Living in the Past]

Large crowd - 13 Toyotas

How many other 40s have you seen?

Anything earlier then 1990 seems to be rare.

 

[Stepmurr]

Second Sunday night’s campsite 🏕 just outside Show Low

 

[Stepmurr]

How many other 40s have you seen?

Anything earlier then 1990 seems to be rare.

Altogether I saw about ten. Three were ex-FJ40 buggies.
I was the only 40 on each of the three trails.
Prolly only means that most FJ40 owners wouldn’t mask up for this year’s Cruise Moab

 

[TheGrrrrr]

One fun one from the climb on Wipeout Hill.

 

[Stepmurr]

One fun one from the climb on Wipeout Hill.

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Awesome

 

[mtn biker]

Altogether I saw about ten. Three were ex-FJ40 buggies.
I was the only 40 on each of the three trails.
Prolly only means that most FJ40 owners wouldn’t mask up for this year’s Cruise Moab

I would go but that is a long drive in Uma and i don't have 2 weeks to get there and back. i actually wear a mask a lot while driving not necessarily for covid reasons but it is my own air filter for the dust

 

[OffRoad Rage]

I'll get my trip report started. Started with the annual washing and waxing of my rig, part of the trip maintenance (not a vanity thing). Then blasted up to Moab in new record time 6:55 (least amount of traffic ever through the Res, and lower Utah).

Then a beautiful Wednesday morning in "downtown" Moab. The day was ridiculously windy but warm and nice.

My daughter is 16 now so this would be her first chance to drive in Moab. My FJC is a manual, and while being able to drive a stick on the street is nice, it's a whole other skill set when wheeling. So rented a RZR side by side so she and her friend could drive. Started with Baby Lions back ...

Then they each did a lap of Fins N Things and finished up with an in and out run of Hell's Revenge. 8 hours of nothing but the passenger seat and spotting for me.

 

[OffRoad Rage]

Took the RZR back, hit tech inspection, and then back to the trail for the Hell's night run. We had some slight drama at Hell's Gate with 2 rigs needing some fancy winch work from the trail leaders. Not a lot to see picture wise but I didn't get this cool FJC shadow. Four and half more hours including the normal trail exit down the side of the Sand Flats ridge. I bet it looked cool from town seeing 12 rigs all lit up coming down together.

 

[OffRoad Rage]

Thursday is another long day, total of 10 1/2 hours, so it's one of the earlier meet up times for trail departures. All still looked weather-wise at this point. We had 9 rigs lined up for this run.

Made some good time getting through the early obstacles., then we could see off in the distance storms building ... and heading our way. It was a very Gilligan's Island flashback. It was supposed to be a high of 60 and 46% chance of rain between 1 and 4, that was of 11:30pm when I went to bed. What it turned into was two different waves of rain, sleet, and some light flurries that lasted 7 hours on and off. Not the finest day or rest of the week for the weather forecasters!

A couple of pics of Skyline Drive.

 

[OffRoad Rage]

A few more pics of our time on Golden Spike, including the obligatory poser pic at the crack (which had a ton of water flowing through it).

 

[90WT]

@Stepmurr Great to meet you at CM this weekend. PM sent. Got a good little video of you going up the second half of the waterfall, and a few good pics headed down the same feature.

 

[Mtntopper]

 

[Mtntopper]

 

[Mtntopper]

 

[Mtntopper]

 

[Mtntopper]

 

[OffRoad Rage]

Day 3 - Wipe Out Hill
CM21 is officially the year of the 200 Series. I'm not sure how many out of the 142 registered participants were driving 200's but I know I wheeled with 6, and judging from other's pictures I've seen at least another 3. On Wipe Out Hill we had 5, pretty sure that is the first sign of the apocalypse when 5 200's go out together! We had 20 rigs, which is the largest single run I've every been on in 7 Cruise Moabs.

First we stopped to check out a desert cave.

 

[OffRoad Rage]

It was a mix of mild wheeling, one decent uphill object (capture by Matt @TheGrrrrr earlier), and then the main event ... Wipe Out Hill which featured two severe downhill sections of slick rock with a bit of a pucker factor. I also clipped a pic of our lunch stop at the Monitor and the Merrimack. Thanks to Tim from Gamiviti who lead the trail and provided some cool dessert treats after lunch.

 

[Stepmurr]

Round trip miles 1688.9

Land Cruisin' the following route:

Home -> Strawberry -> Sunset Crater -> Wupatki -> Marble Canyon -> Apple Valley -> Smithsonian Butte -> Zion ->Bryce -> Dixie Forest -> Capital Reef -> Goblin Valley -> Moab -> Lotz O Fun Trailz -> South on 191 -> South on BIA 15 -> South on 77 -> South on US 60 -> South on 77 -> Home