We had a Great Time

I deleted this photo, by mistake as I was writing the story of our trip. I love this eagle rock so I needed to put it back on the blog. Also wanted to let you know that, I'm taking ATV pictures with a new camera a small (deck of cards small) Panasonic Lumix 5X zoom 12 mega pixels. I'm not used to it yet, I haven't even read the manual. So I had a few pics that needed to be deleted. I can't take my big camera any more, it needs to be kept in the case, in an ATV bag that has a zipper and velcro and snaps. So many times It is just too much trouble to get it out. This little camera can be kept in a pocket.

The first thing that Gary and I did when we got to Moab is buy a trail guide. "ATV Trail Guide Moab, UT" by Charles A Wells. The trails were marked by Difficulty. I wanted to stay on the easy trails, at least until we found out what

Charles meant by easy, moderate and difficult. The first day we picked out Gemini Bridges.




So, this is the bridges, it looks like one bridge, but when you walk across the top you see there is a crack/hole that turns it into two bridges. We watched 4 or 5 young men/boys (mountain bikers) explore the area, they laid down and looked over the edge, I heard them, talk about jumping the smaller (not that small) opening. They didn't. Moms? Do you know where your kids are?

This is the view from the bridge, looking down into Bull Canyon, another trail from the book. We drove that trail at the end of day 2.

After Gemini Bridges we went looking for Four Arches Canyon. Not sure if we found it, but we did find a nice cool place for lunch. There were patches of snow on the ground.

The second day of riding, we picked another easy route.....well except for the small stretch of moderate. You know the part that goes straight up over rocks, you know the part that seems like you are climbing stairs ----the picture below is the very first part, I didn't get pictures of the rest of the hill climb, cause....I was praying

I wasn't scared. Well there was this one part that made me whine...a lot. Gary finally said we could turn around and go find another trail. Great except that would mean riding back down. So I decided that I would rather go forward, I didn't think it could get worse, and I was right. The next part of the trail was sandy and fun to ride on.

I saw on the map a place called WIPE OUT HILL. I told Gary "we are not going there" but we did. We are not the best map readers. Gary is looking at the trail that crazy people drive their 4-wheel drive trucks and jeeps over.

We watched some dirt bike riders cross this slick rock....we didn't.

The trail that we were on was the Determination Towers trail. My header is a picture of the towers.

We tried to find Tusher Tunnel. We didn't find it but we found this slick rock, and a great photo op.

The next day of riding, was the best. We were lucky that we did our rides in the correct order. We saved the best for last.

It started out on a nice easy, safe, flat and pretty road.

The trail we were on was the Hurrah Pass trail. Gary pulled off to look at the view. This place gave me the creeps, not sure why, it was wide enough.

doesn't look very wide from this view point. See that "V" cut out of the cliff.. near the ATV? Gary said " Oh I didn't see that when I stopped the ATV"

Once we got to Hurrah Pass we had to go down the other side to get to Chicken Corners, the next stop on our ride. I found this part of the trail very scary. Have you ever heard of the ROAD OF DEATH in South America? You should google it. Anyway that's all I could think of.

We took a wrong turn (I told you we're not good with maps) It was a nice ride, until we came to this, I decided to wait at the bottom, Gary decided to turn around and see if we could find the right trail. The end of the trail is Chicken Corners. It has a beautiful view of the Colorado River, and somewhere across the river is Thelma and Louse Point. The ATV trail ends but a hiking trail begins the map says it is a Dangerous hiking trail, the author calls it a daredevil hiking trail. So we had to hike the trail, you know for about 10 feet. Or was that 10 baby steps.

I made Gary stand there, he wasn't crazy about doing it.

View from the hiking trail.

This is a terriable picture but it does show what the hiking trail looks like. See that gray bush, that's where we were standing. There is a black bird sitting on the edge of the rock, the trail goes around under that rock, at least I think it does, I didn't check it out.
We will be going back to Moab, we have a lot more trails to ride.