Moab

[B E N]

Its off highway 90 near the colorado/utah border.

 

[jzweedyk]

Thanks, we will have to go there.

 

[nikhsub1]

So I plan to pass through Moab in the first or second week of July - I will have one day to hit a trail or 2 - what would you recommend? Nothing too crazy as I'll have a pretty loaded truck with 3 bikes on top of the bed as well. I was thinking Chicken Corners? Any thoughts appreciated!

 

[B E N]

Its beautiful no matter where you go.

Hit up Hurrah Pass to Hell's Revenge (Stay out of the bath tubs), Chicken corners is in that trail run and that will take up a good day. You will have chances to play on slick rock and in soft sand both. Raptor shouldn't struggle with it and you will get excellent views and a few optional challenges.

 

[jzweedyk]

So I plan to pass through Moab in the first or second week of July - I will have one day to hit a trail or 2 - what would you recommend? Nothing too crazy as I'll have a pretty loaded truck with 3 bikes on top of the bed as well. I was thinking Chicken Corners? Any thoughts appreciated!

Chicken Corners is a good trail with good scenery. Also Onion Creek is very scenic. If you start out early, after Onion Creek, you can do LaSalle Loop, it is paved but great scenery.

 

[jzweedyk]

We are back in Moab. A member of my old Jeep club came to town and we showed them a slice of Moab. Took them on Chicken Corners. Got the Raptor really dusty, but it did well.

 

[jzweedyk]

Took the Raptor on the LaSalle paved loop today, but was able to find a little "spur" to explore.

 

[jzweedyk]

Yesterday we took the Raptor back up into the LaSalle Mountains. It was just about peak color. Gold basin was just that, gold.

We also went to the Buckeye Reservoir, which needs to be renamed the Buckeye mud puddle. It was almost dry.

 

[B E N]

I ran the Bartlett wash trail and a portion of the Crystal Geyser loop this past weekend. Bartlett is built for the Raptor, and beautiful with great overlooks and plenty of terrain change, awesome soft sand washes, very fast stretches and whoop type terrain.

Crystal Geyser safari loop is different, the trail is difficult to follow in places. There are a couple of ledges with soft sand at the base, and some places where if you misjudge the line you will drag the underside of the truck. This is an advanced trail, there are places where a lack of off road acuity could leave you in an area you cannot drive out of. Go with at least one other vehicle, bring a spotter, wear good shoes take plenty of water. Width is not an issue anywhere, pinstriping is not a concern. Any section can be bypassed, the maze of roads and trails in the area is incredible. Do your homework and choose the route your comfortable with. The area between hwy 191 and green river has everything from pristinely maintained oil service roads to slow going 4x4, and there are 8 ways to get anywhere.

The technical portion of this trail runs through this basin and down the bare slickrock valley in the middle of the pic. You enter through the far side of the mound on the left.




Truck is a stock 11 Raptor, this is near rainbow rocks.

 

[SS308]

Nice looking Raptor!

Thanks for sharing.