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Hole in the Rock Oct 11-15th

Brett

Brett

Meat-Hippy
Location
Salt Lake City Utah
Cody, Steve (yakinaked) and I left from SLC around 8 pm Wednesday night with the intention of getting to Hanksville and camping there for the night. That was not to be the case though. About halfway between Price and Green River we have our first problem. Cody's ZJ shut's down for no reason and we can't get it fired back up. So, we end up pulling him to Green River and getting a room there for the night.

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Next morning, Cody replaces the coil and the Jeep fires up no problem.

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Off we go again to Hanksville. So we thought. Halfway between the two towns, the ZJ shuts down again.

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Coil again, so we thought. I pull him again to Hanksville where we all test and think of anything we can to get the Jeep going again. Nothing. Off go Steve and Cody to Price to get a new coil and CPS, just to be sure. I take off for Bullfrog, trying to beat the ferry for Halls Crossing. Make it exactly at three, which is when it's supposed to leave. Off to the other side I go.

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Ross (who was riding with Cody, but now with me) meet up with Kevin Fell (www.kevinsjeepparts.com) and just hunker down for dinner and some drinks. We're thinking we'll see Cody and Steve around 8 or 9 that night. Nope. 12:30 they roll in after fighting with getting the CPS replaced on the ZJ. No problems after that though.

So, Friday morning we set off on Hole in the Rock. Great weather, sunny, warm perfect. On the Stopped for lunch at some old ruins before dropping down into the the wash.

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Kevin stepped up his ACOS spacers since he was bottoming out on his shocks.

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Down into the wash and off again. Here's Cody coming down one of the slick rock slopes. You can behind his Jeep where the Mormon settlers had blasted the rock to get their wagons through.

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Another view as you drive through the spots where they blasted and chipped stone.

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Brett

Brett

Meat-Hippy
Location
Salt Lake City Utah
Part 2

We get to the new bypass for the trail, since the canyon is washing out and where the road use to be is a 200 foot drop to the bottom. All the rain is just tearing it up. You can see about 300 feet further down the canyon the sign for the trail and where the road use to head up into the rocks. These pics below are the new bypass, where the old trail would just go up a sandy wash, you get to go up this now.

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Good progress after that, you can see everywhere where the trail was cut though. They were pretty brave to be out there on that trek without knowing what was ahead of them. Another spot where you can kind of tell the road was cut with Steve coming down that spot.

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Motoring on we go off and pass the sign for Grey Mesa, and up up a narrow wash.

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On that last climb up to where we decided to camp. It was getting to the point where we couldn't see much at all due to the sun being in our eyes. Not fun to be climbing and not being able to tell if you are about to fall off a cliff!

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This is what we camped by! :eek:

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Brett

Brett

Meat-Hippy
Location
Salt Lake City Utah
Part 3

Next day we start out again with it just pouring rain. Little waterfalls everywhere and of course we're driving up steep slick rock. I didn't take as many pics since I didn't really feel like taking a $1000 dollar Nikon out in the rain. :p We stopped up on top of Grey Mesa at a nice overlook of the San Juan river. You can see how low Lake Powell is with the water line on the cliffs.

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We got to the "Chute" as I believe it's called and stopped to hike to the bottom to check out the river first before driving down. Wasn't too bad so down we go.

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Kevin crossing the stream.....wait till later on that day for our suprise coming back!

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Here's Steve and then Cody coming down one of the drops on the trail, started to rain harder just after this again.

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After this, I really have no more pics until we turned back and headed out. It was just a monsoon and rivers everywhere. One shot of Cody in front of me driving on the trail/river.

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Then we got back to the small stream which now had grown quite a bit bigger!

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Brett

Brett

Meat-Hippy
Location
Salt Lake City Utah
cruiseroutfit said:
Was the Rincon trailhead marked in any way?
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Not at all.....there were two spots that could have been it, one with a NPS sign right in the middle of it. The other road looked to be just as good as the main trail. I forgot to ask Kevin which one matched up with the GPS points we had for the turn off though. :rolleyes:


You missed out man, you missed out
 
cruiseroutfit

cruiseroutfit

Cruizah!
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Location
Sandy, Ut
Brett said:
Not at all.....there were two spots that could have been it, one with a NPS sign right in the middle of it. The other road looked to be just as good as the main trail. I forgot to ask Kevin which one matched up with the GPS points we had for the turn off though. :rolleyes:


You missed out man, you missed out
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Was it a "closed" NPS sign or just a marker?

I sooo wished I could have gone. I got off the plane back in SLC Thursday ! noon, spent the rest of Thurs/Friday catching up with business and all weekend working on my house... :rolleyes:
 
cruiseroutfit

cruiseroutfit

Cruizah!
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Sandy, Ut
Plus, look at it this way. When your all ready to go back down in rigs that run :p and run the Rincon Trail down to Powell, I'll be ready ;):D Lets start planning it! :cool:
 
Brett

Brett

Meat-Hippy
Location
Salt Lake City Utah
cruiseroutfit said:
Was it a "closed" NPS sign or just a marker?

I sooo wished I could have gone. I got off the plane back in SLC Thursday ! noon, spent the rest of Thurs/Friday catching up with business and all weekend working on my house... :rolleyes:
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I am pretty sure that the marker was a closed "no vehicles" type sign.

cruiseroutfit said:
Plus, look at it this way. When your all ready to go back down in rigs that run and run the Rincon Trail down to Powell, I'll be ready Lets start planning it!
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Mine ran fine the whole time, till the fan clipped the radiator and put a little hole in it.

I'm game with running it again. My only worry is if the trail at the beginning will still be there. I know Cody took some video of how bad it is, so maybe he can post some stills of it.
 
jonlowe

jonlowe

Registered User
Location
Farmington
Road

cruiseroutfit said:
Was it a "closed" NPS sign or just a marker?

I sooo wished I could have gone. I got off the plane back in SLC Thursday ! noon, spent the rest of Thurs/Friday catching up with business and all weekend working on my house... :rolleyes:
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We ran this trail back in June and there was no sign stating vehicles were prohibited to drive down to the Rincon. Both times I have run the trail we went down there.

Here is a link to my webshots album: http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/551450892VJXsQy
I have one album with pics of our trip down. This is not the exact link to it, but it will get you to where you can find it. I cannot access webshots at work, sorry! We were hit by a pretty several burst of rain that flooded the entire trail out just before Grey Mesa. It was an absolute blast.
 
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Brett

Brett

Meat-Hippy
Location
Salt Lake City Utah
jonlowe said:
We ran this trail back in June and there was no sign stating vehicles were prohibited to drive down to the Rincon. Both times I have run the trail we went down there.

Here is a link to my webshots album: http://community.webshots.com/album/177501803TikwjC
I have one album with pics of our trip down. This is not the exact link to it, but it will get you to where you can find it. I cannot access webshots at work, sorry! We were hit by a pretty several burst of rain that flooded the entire trail out just before Grey Mesa. It was an absolute blast.
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Okay, if this works, you can see the marker in your pic that I was talking about on the very very right of the picture.

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/2778902530041505988JLzKqj

Is that a no vehicle or just a trail maker? It's right in the middle of the road you know. Also, is it there you turn for the Rincon or further down the trail at the next right?
 
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