Moab recommendations

creepycrawly · Sep 18, 2019

More.

creepycrawly · Sep 18, 2019

Moar.

creepycrawly · Sep 18, 2019

We finished up our last night at dinner with a view.

creepycrawly · Sep 18, 2019

Over all, it was an excellent trip. Absolutely the best place I've been wheeling. Moab has great views and friendly people. We ate out at several different restaurants and they were all great. Typical tourist town prices.

I'd highly recommend you make the trip if you're thinking about it. You can also rent a built JK for $259 a day which was pretty wild to me.

We asked about traffic enforcement earlier and I can comment on that first hand now. We did see a few LEO's but never saw anyone pulled over. Seeing rzrs driving down the road past highway patrol and county sheriffs was pretty wild. We had absolutely no issues. As previously stated, I think if you're not acting a fool, you'll be fine driving on the road out there. As a side note, if you have a rig that isn't street friendly, you can trailer to the trailhead and park at any of them.

ridered3 · Sep 19, 2019

Very cool write-up and thanks for all the pictures!

blacksheep10 · Sep 19, 2019

Love that place, probably going back for Spring Break next year.

creepycrawly · Sep 19, 2019

It was absolutely great and we didn't even hit all the big name trails, let alone see all there is to see. I'll be back for sure.

tkinze · Sep 20, 2019

1 week is not enough time to hit them all. I've been a total of 3 weeks and covered about 80% of the major trails leaving several of the lesser known trails undone.

Well said and spot on on in your description about the cost of a mess up. Seems almost everything out there is off camber and takes getting used to.

Did you guys get to do Moab Rim trail? Drove right by it on your way to PC.

creepycrawly · Sep 20, 2019

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tkinze said:
1 week is not enough time to hit them all. I've been a total of 3 weeks and covered about 80% of the major trails leaving several of the lesser known trails undone.

Well said and spot on on in your description about the cost of a mess up. Seems almost everything out there is off camber and takes getting used to.

Did you guys get to do Moab Rim trail? Drove right by it on your way to PC.

We didn't run Moab Rim. I definitely wanted to and we talked about it as we drove by but we took the rest of that afternoon to go to Arches National Park. It leaves me something to look forward to on the next trip.

blacksheep10 · Sep 20, 2019

To create some distinction as far as how long it takes to run most of the trails, RZR's that are well built can knock it out about 2-3x as fast, maybe more on some of the rougher ones. We did PS, Gold spike and gold bar with stopping at the crack and eating and other running around, taking pics, taking optional lines, etc in 4 hours truck to truck (we staged the tow vehicles at Gemini bridges drive and started at PS.) My buddy in a built LJ on rock jocks and 37's took 10 hours to do the same loop. We ran all the trails in the "hard" side of the book in 4 days, and were done early and at the brewery most days. Excited to go back

creepycrawly · Sep 20, 2019

blacksheep10 said:
To create some distinction as far as how long it takes to run most of the trails, RZR's that are well built can knock it out about 2-3x as fast, maybe more on some of the rougher ones. We did PS, Gold spike and gold bar with stopping at the crack and eating and other running around, taking pics, taking optional lines, etc in 4 hours truck to truck (we staged the tow vehicles at Gemini bridges drive and started at PS.) My buddy in a built LJ on rock jocks and 37's took 10 hours to do the same loop. We ran all the trails in the "hard" side of the book in 4 days, and were done early and at the brewery most days. Excited to go back

This is a great point that I failed to mention at all. The estimates in the book are very conservative. We found ourselves knocking at least 1.5 hours off of any of the boom estimates. We did all the bonus lines that we saw but we admittedly didn't stop and make one million pitter or twinstagram posts. We stopped to water the baby when necessary and other than that, we kept rolling. There were only a handful of times that we spotted for one another all week so for the most part, we just got pictures from our respective vehicles.

I can absolutely see how rzr's would get you around a lot quicker because we went fairly slow on the open flat areas that you could just blast through on a rzr.

I can also see where having a big group would really slow you down just because it takes longer to get more people through the obstacles.

Use the book as a starting point and assess how you fit into their forecasted timeline and adjust as necessary.

d_daffron · Sep 20, 2019

The problem trying to cover alot of ground quickly was definately my jeep on coil springs and cheap no name shocks. We had to keep it real slow on the open rocky dirt roads between obstacles/cool parts of the trail. Even driving slow it still beat the crap out of us. In a RZR or pretty much anything with a quality suspension system you could definately fly right through those parts and shave hours off every trail.

Trailabite · Sep 20, 2019

I have only been with a large group (about 10 to 15 rigs) and it always seems to take most of the day to do a trail. My favorite's are Pritchett's Canyon, Rusty Nail (No Left Turn) and Area BFE. The last time we went we separated from the big group and did a sight seeing trip. Some where out there in the middle of no where there's a couple of places where you can get out and follow some old dinosaur tracks.