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Post by Ken K on Oct 3, 2011 10:56:03 GMT -5
Whelp, put it in the record books. Another GREAT trip out West is over. Way too tired to write a ride report yet but figured I would start the thread and post a link to my pictures. I'm sure everyone else will add some commentary as they recover from the long ride home! Couple to prove I was there! Here's the full album.....sort through at your leisure! kkilli.smugmug.com/photos/swfpopup.mg?AlbumID=19325871&AlbumKey=s2NH6b
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Post by Randy_R on Oct 3, 2011 11:55:16 GMT -5
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Post by Ken K on Oct 3, 2011 12:03:32 GMT -5
I'm sure they will.....but some may be still trying to remove the Golden Spike from their a$$'s! LOL!
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Post by Bob T on Oct 3, 2011 12:16:47 GMT -5
I'll add a little.
Saturday Nine of us who got there in the morning rode the Arapeen for a while. We rode the "Black Dragon", up around some mesa's and back down "Rock Canyon" home.
Sunday We all rode the San Rafael Swell. Some very scenic rock formations. We rode down under a I-70 bridge and then back up through a tunnel under I-70. We then took the "Devil's Racetrack" back north. It was a very rough trail.
Monday We all went to "Joe's Valley" to ride some of the northern Arapeen. A beautiful canyon ride into JV. We rode several trail that went up into the mountains where the Aspen were in their fall splendor. A very nice high mountain ride.
Tuesday We split into 3 groups. One went back to JV, one went down and rode a more southern section of the Arapeen and rode through Aspen and Pine forest, they said it was great trails. Four of us went to the "Wedge", Utah's Grand Canyon. It is huge. We then rode 14 miles along the rim of another canyon, spectacular views.
Wednesday We all went to Moab and rode some trails west of Moab and went to "Tusher Tunnel". This was probably our least favorite ride, pretty scenery, but more desert, sand and rocks.
Thursday - one hell of a day and extremely difficult We went to ride "Poison Spider", one of the more difficult trails. We continued onto "Gold Bar Rim" and the overlooks. These were as difficult of trails as any of us had ever ridden. Then we got onto "Golden Spike", my map had it as a blue, well it was a triple black diamond. It it rated as one of the most difficult JEEP trails. We got ourselves into one heck of a trail. We winched once and used our ropes many times. On these trails there are 21 JEEP obstacles, we went around about 10 of them but had to negotiate the others. Oh, did I say it was 100 degrees.
We started at 9:00am and finished at 7:00pm. There was one section that took us several hours to go just a few miles. In all we only rode 23 miles not counting the rode ride to Archview Campground
We staged at the Poison Spider TH and finished at Archview Campground and got a ride back to the TH to get the trucks.
It was the hardest day of riding we had ever encountered.
Friday Most were to tired to ride but Kevin, David, Tom, Tony, Larry and I went and rode the La Sal Mtn which had the biggest Aspens we had ever seen.
I know why they call Kansas a "fly over" state, it's hell to drive across.
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Post by Ken K on Oct 3, 2011 12:25:02 GMT -5
In case you'd like to check it out!
Golden Spike
Poison Spider Mesa
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Post by brianbrown on Oct 3, 2011 13:52:09 GMT -5
Ken, that bottom picture looks like an astronaut on the moon.. haha
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Post by Drew RZR 800 on Oct 3, 2011 16:37:48 GMT -5
Looks like another great trip ....
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2011 19:51:12 GMT -5
I'm so envious!! Looks like y'all had a fantastic time!!
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Post by David B on Oct 4, 2011 20:17:53 GMT -5
Kevin and I got back this afternoon. We stopped at the Founders Ranch in Albequerque, NM Sat and part of Sun to visit the home of the single action shooting society. We watched the mounted shooting events. We also visited some western stores on the way back. Great trip, great friends, great scenery!
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Post by Matt H (aka Tiger Rag) on Oct 5, 2011 9:09:54 GMT -5
Cool trip, looks like great fun!
What, no food pictures?
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Post by Ken K on Oct 5, 2011 12:53:08 GMT -5
Cool trip, looks like great fun! What, no food pictures? I had a few food pics, but in general, the food on this trip was nothing to write home about. Matter of fact, there was one night that we had to eat supper out of our atv/trail food stash since the one and only resturant in Ferron was closed!
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Post by Bob T on Oct 5, 2011 18:41:55 GMT -5
My MOAB appetizer!
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Post by CarverO on Oct 5, 2011 22:12:59 GMT -5
Congrats on another safe trip. Great pictures.
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Post by Ken K on Oct 19, 2011 19:23:00 GMT -5
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Post by Randy_R on Oct 19, 2011 19:25:41 GMT -5
Now those are some pics!! I'm drooling.
As Carver said last night -- I don't wanna see those pics. Makes me mad I could not go!!
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Post by Ken K on Oct 19, 2011 19:25:50 GMT -5
Action!
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Post by Randy_R on Oct 19, 2011 19:27:54 GMT -5
Good to see you waering your TTB Kids Club shirt Ken!!
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Post by Ken K on Oct 19, 2011 19:33:12 GMT -5
Good to see you waering your TTB Kids Club shirt Ken!! It was a slow, easy kids ride after all, wasn't it?
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