- Location
- Grantsville, Utah
We arrived at the Halls Crossing Marina Campground Friday April 15th. We camped there the first night.
With Lake Powell at such low levels, the whole area seems abandoned. There were no pay envelopes at the campground kiosk and not a Ranger to be found. Two other campers were there and they said not to worry about it, the Rangers don't care as long as you don't make work for them. It was a remarkably clean campground. Most of the people in the RV campground across the road were there to work on the Airport runway project.
I don't think you could get anything but a kayak into the lake in that area. You definitely can't get food or fuel from the marina store, as there is no way for them to receive deliveries.
Saturday morning we were up and packed by 8:15 am, having unloaded the trailers the previous evening. It was chilly, but not terrible. We left our trucks and trailers parked in a dirt lot at the marina campground. We were aired down and cruising down Nokai Dome road at 9 am.
The first obstacle of interest on Hole In The Rock is "Twister". Tyler drove his black XJ all the way from Camp Crooke, South Dakota to see what rockcrawling on red rocks is like.
Brian and Shelia drove from Katy, TX with their 2011 JK and Quigley the trail dog. This is their 5th time on HITR.
And then my JK.
After that, there aren't many noteworthy trail obstacles for a while, just a lot of bumping down the trail until you get to the dugway "Slick rock Hill"
Slickrock Hill is always a special place to see just how comfortable you are with narrow shelf roads, which are also off-camber, bumpy, somewhat steep, and also covered with Moqui Marbles.
With Lake Powell at such low levels, the whole area seems abandoned. There were no pay envelopes at the campground kiosk and not a Ranger to be found. Two other campers were there and they said not to worry about it, the Rangers don't care as long as you don't make work for them. It was a remarkably clean campground. Most of the people in the RV campground across the road were there to work on the Airport runway project.
I don't think you could get anything but a kayak into the lake in that area. You definitely can't get food or fuel from the marina store, as there is no way for them to receive deliveries.
Saturday morning we were up and packed by 8:15 am, having unloaded the trailers the previous evening. It was chilly, but not terrible. We left our trucks and trailers parked in a dirt lot at the marina campground. We were aired down and cruising down Nokai Dome road at 9 am.
The first obstacle of interest on Hole In The Rock is "Twister". Tyler drove his black XJ all the way from Camp Crooke, South Dakota to see what rockcrawling on red rocks is like.
Brian and Shelia drove from Katy, TX with their 2011 JK and Quigley the trail dog. This is their 5th time on HITR.
And then my JK.
After that, there aren't many noteworthy trail obstacles for a while, just a lot of bumping down the trail until you get to the dugway "Slick rock Hill"
Slickrock Hill is always a special place to see just how comfortable you are with narrow shelf roads, which are also off-camber, bumpy, somewhat steep, and also covered with Moqui Marbles.
