This is the delayed trip from this post https://forum.ih8mud.com/co-colorad...trail-over-thanksgiving-week.html#post7026884
So this was delayed a few months but what an epic trip. It started Saturday morning at about 9:30. Eric G. and his kids joined us for 5 days and 4 nights out on Kokopelli's Trail between Fruita, CO and Moab, UT. We got on the trail about 3:30 in the afternoon. The Rabbit Valley area had lots of OHV activity but we were able find a nice camp spot down the trail a bit -- at the end of an unimproved camping area overlooking the Colorado River. It took us a while to find a spot since we were getting in later than we wanted.
The next day we got down the trail a little more and into UT where we aired down. The trail got progressively rockier, leaving the RV's behind. The day was relatively mild in terms of trail and weather. We found some cool dinosaur tracks (funny story too long to write up the full version). Short version is we parked within 30 feet of them but spent about an hour or so hiking around looking for them. I had done a lot of research putting pieces together of where those tracks might be.
We wound up disperse camping somewhere along the trail past the Dewey Bridge area. The wind kicked up strong that night and poor Eric had to get up about 3 am and move his 80 to block the wind, re-pound stakes, and tie down to the truck. We had been lucky enough to set up next to a large juniper that shielded our tent. Day 3 was very windy. We took a side trip to Top of the World, very slow. We got near the top and there was a ledge where we would have had to stack rocks to get up, at least for me with the trailer. I was a bit tired and we decided to hike the rest of the way. The views were great but the wind was too much so we didn't linger. It was several hours of driving for a couple minutes of view.
So this was delayed a few months but what an epic trip. It started Saturday morning at about 9:30. Eric G. and his kids joined us for 5 days and 4 nights out on Kokopelli's Trail between Fruita, CO and Moab, UT. We got on the trail about 3:30 in the afternoon. The Rabbit Valley area had lots of OHV activity but we were able find a nice camp spot down the trail a bit -- at the end of an unimproved camping area overlooking the Colorado River. It took us a while to find a spot since we were getting in later than we wanted.
The next day we got down the trail a little more and into UT where we aired down. The trail got progressively rockier, leaving the RV's behind. The day was relatively mild in terms of trail and weather. We found some cool dinosaur tracks (funny story too long to write up the full version). Short version is we parked within 30 feet of them but spent about an hour or so hiking around looking for them. I had done a lot of research putting pieces together of where those tracks might be.
We wound up disperse camping somewhere along the trail past the Dewey Bridge area. The wind kicked up strong that night and poor Eric had to get up about 3 am and move his 80 to block the wind, re-pound stakes, and tie down to the truck. We had been lucky enough to set up next to a large juniper that shielded our tent. Day 3 was very windy. We took a side trip to Top of the World, very slow. We got near the top and there was a ledge where we would have had to stack rocks to get up, at least for me with the trailer. I was a bit tired and we decided to hike the rest of the way. The views were great but the wind was too much so we didn't linger. It was several hours of driving for a couple minutes of view.
