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Hole in the rock trail

40_Below

40_Below

Active Member
Location
Hurricane
Damn I'd love to go on that trail (would have to take a strap in a few spots)
October is a busy month for me, I'm doing the Mojave road the weekend of the 7th and then the U4x4C meet and greet is the 14th
 
iceaxe

iceaxe

Backroad Adventurer
Location
Sandy
My link on 1st page is still good from my 04 trip, here it is again.
http://community.webshots.com/album/291252452XgzTSA

the swamp as you call it really was a suprise to see out in the middle of the desert. Really looked different in 04 than those older photos, no bypass, all vegitation and a deep wet hole. This pick was right before I drove through it.
http://community.webshots.com/photo/291252452/1291254286043863621esRKpO
here is the next day on the way out, my friend was sitting on 33's and 6" lift IRRC in this pic
http://community.webshots.com/photo/291252452/1291284517043863621iRjCMo

It's a great trip, do the Rincon while you can is the way I look at it.

Our next Loose screws tour will be that same weekend through Oct 1st, looking to explore the Maze, but we have talked about returning to Hole in the Rock since we skipped it last year.
 
Brett

Brett

Meat-Hippy
Location
Salt Lake City Utah
iceaxe said:
My link on 1st page is still good from my 04 trip, here it is again.
http://community.webshots.com/album/291252452XgzTSA

the swamp as you call it really was a suprise to see out in the middle of the desert. Really looked different in 04 than those older photos, no bypass, all vegitation and a deep wet hole. This pick was right before I drove through it.
http://community.webshots.com/photo/291252452/1291254286043863621esRKpO
here is the next day on the way out, my friend was sitting on 33's and 6" lift IRRC in this pic
http://community.webshots.com/photo/291252452/1291284517043863621iRjCMo

It's a great trip, do the Rincon while you can is the way I look at it.

Our next Loose screws tour will be that same weekend through Oct 1st, looking to explore the Maze, but we have talked about returning to Hole in the Rock since we skipped it last year.
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:ninja edit: Just looked at your pics again. Looks like the road isn't too bad. Is it easy to find the turn off from the main trail so that we could get down to the lake?
 
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eatrocks

eatrocks

Registered User
The bypass is there well it was last summer (05) but it does get over grown each summer. The 1st summer we found the swamp I started though in my 72blazer with 37,5inch lift, and stoped when the head lamps went underwater. You could tell the the road had been graded right down to the swamp. We have driven the road 4 times since then. As I said I have moved to Layton Ut from KCMO since the last time I ran hole in the rock.
 
eatrocks

eatrocks

Registered User
With a GPS its easy to tell the right turn of to go down to the lake. The last time we went we ran from the swamp to the top of were the rincom road droped down the last part to the lake and back to the swamp in 9 hours, We had a 3 trucks there and all of us had run the trail before. If you want to run both the rincom and out to the end of the main trail. We could camp just before the swamp the 1st night leaving any tow rigs and trailers there, we left my 01 burban there for 2 trips. Then run to the end of the rincom camp there then run to the end of the main trail and back to the tow rigs. We never counted on hall crossing to be open when we ran hole in the rock before. There is a place you can get water out of a well though.
 
iceaxe

iceaxe

Backroad Adventurer
Location
Sandy
Brett said:
:ninja edit: Just looked at your pics again. Looks like the road isn't too bad. Is it easy to find the turn off from the main trail so that we could get down to the lake?
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There is no sign, but it's the only right turn out there :cool:
The first leg down to the first switchback in to the Rincon is rocky, loose, and had a narrow ledge side pass around a large boulder. We waited at the top for a group kicked off the beach by the ranger, they had a CJ that busted a leaf spring right on that switchback. They were suprised to see some mild looking XJ's waiting at the top.

Oh and BTW verizon owners will have spotty cell service, check it any time you have line of sight on Navajo Mountain, not as soon as you spot it but once out on Grey Mesa a little way.

Brett said:
And I need more people with Cherokee's to go so that I can get a line up pic on the shore too :greg:
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It was a memorable line up :D
 
tagaustatoppen

tagaustatoppen

1997 TJ
Location
Heber, Utah
I know that the dates have been back and forth, I would really like to do this trail and would really like to know what the offical date is set for. Please keep us posted.

Tyler
 
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