Spring 2010 Moab trip

On Saturday Cliff Maag and I set off for Moab UT for a bit of 4x4 fun! We met up with Steve Morey and his wife Coral as well as their friends Steve and Karen Byrne. We've been going a few times a year since we moved here.. Its an absolute rush. If you've never been there before, and you live in Utah.. You need to go.. Rent yourself a jeep if you have to when you get there.. but do it!


Day 1 - Dome Plateau


We set off for the day taking a few fun sandy trails.. The 4 runner loved it.. So did we! :)

We ate lunch here at this natural arch. It was absolutely amazing.

Steve Morey, Steve Byrne, and myself hanging out by our rides..

Overlooking the Dome Plateau fisher towers view point.. About 10 feet in front of us was a nasty drop.. probably a 500 or 600 feet drop.. Pretty crazy.

We even came across an old abandoned mine! We went inside and explored a bit.. until Steve Byrne freaked us out by banging a wire on the side of the mine entrance.. I'm not a fan of dark creepy places especially when you can't see the end of it.. I won't sugar coat it.... We ran.


Day 2 - Poison Spider

The second day, Dave Towner joined up with us. We decided to take his jeep for the day, especially since we were heading for a pretty gnarly trail which would have been tough if not impossible for the 4 runner due to the long front end (not so good for tight corners and steep climbs).

Dave's jeep did really well on the rock.. Its amazing what a jeep can do. I want one.

Steve made rock climbing in his new rubicon look easy. See that over there? Watch me climb over it.. lol. I want one.

This is the overlook from Poison Spider. From here we could see the city of Moab!


Day 3 - Hidden Spire

Our last day it rained on and off.. Which was fine because we weren't doing serious 4x4 climbing.. Just exploring. We found a cool cave, a canyon, and a few neat rock formations.. and of course we collected some mud on the trucks!

This was one of the overlooks near the cave and canyon we found.. Can you see Cliff?

This is hidden spire.. We tried, but just couldn't push the sucker over. Yes we're still just a bunch of kids.

I don't care what people say about going to Moab in anything but a jeep, even though the Jeeps did awesome on the trip (I still want one), our Toyota 4 runner still performed like a champ. I was able to go everywhere the jeeps went and had a lot of fun in the process. And Jen was grinning ear to ear when I made it back with no body damage on Zeus!

I have to say.. I'm already looking forward to our next trip to Moab! Red rocks are addictive!

For more pictures from the trip make sure to check out our Smugmug site: Moab 2010