- Location
- Grand Junction, CO
We had a good turnout for the March RME Trip to the Swell, the weather was excellent, the sights were amazing, the history was inspiring and the campfire company was great!
@frieed was already there with his F150 and I showed up around 5 PM on Friday evening, we setup camp at the San Rafael Bridge campground. Had a great dinner and hung out around the campfire, which was very needed that night as it got COLD! @Kevin B. and his family rolled into camp pretty late sporting his wife's 4Runner, around 11 PM I think? I had already gone to bed...
The next morning was CHILLY, I had a bottle of water outside that had mostly frozen. We had a lazy morning, knowing that we were waiting on a few others and a planned departure time around 10 AM. Soon @Spork rolled into camp with his Tacoma, as well as @Homefryy in his Red XJ followed shortly by @BigDsYJ in the YJ sporting Dana 60's and Brandon following in his BUILT Tacoma with 1 Ton axles and 40" tires!
We rolled out of camp, heading South.... eventually found our way to the Lone Warrior pictograph. On the way up, the road has been pretty well washed out at one point and Jason ( @Homefryy ) had his passenger tires fall into the deep crevice. Despite a few valiant efforts, he needed a tug. Eric hooked up to Jason and yanked him out without too much drama. Now this was a proper adventure!
The Lone Warrior....
And some of the group, getting up to the parking area.
Then on to Swasey's Cabin and the descent down into Eagle Canyon. There was quite a bit of traffic coming out and we had to get pretty creative a couple times. Eagle Canyon was in prety rough & rocky shape, more than we'd all seen it before. We took a quick photo break at the Arch, then continued on. It was a proper challenge in several places, but we all slowly worked our way thru and finally made it to the bridges of I70 high above.
I had to engage the lockers and.... uh, 'test' them.... make sure they still worked!
@frieed was already there with his F150 and I showed up around 5 PM on Friday evening, we setup camp at the San Rafael Bridge campground. Had a great dinner and hung out around the campfire, which was very needed that night as it got COLD! @Kevin B. and his family rolled into camp pretty late sporting his wife's 4Runner, around 11 PM I think? I had already gone to bed...
The next morning was CHILLY, I had a bottle of water outside that had mostly frozen. We had a lazy morning, knowing that we were waiting on a few others and a planned departure time around 10 AM. Soon @Spork rolled into camp with his Tacoma, as well as @Homefryy in his Red XJ followed shortly by @BigDsYJ in the YJ sporting Dana 60's and Brandon following in his BUILT Tacoma with 1 Ton axles and 40" tires!
We rolled out of camp, heading South.... eventually found our way to the Lone Warrior pictograph. On the way up, the road has been pretty well washed out at one point and Jason ( @Homefryy ) had his passenger tires fall into the deep crevice. Despite a few valiant efforts, he needed a tug. Eric hooked up to Jason and yanked him out without too much drama. Now this was a proper adventure!
The Lone Warrior....
And some of the group, getting up to the parking area.
Then on to Swasey's Cabin and the descent down into Eagle Canyon. There was quite a bit of traffic coming out and we had to get pretty creative a couple times. Eagle Canyon was in prety rough & rocky shape, more than we'd all seen it before. We took a quick photo break at the Arch, then continued on. It was a proper challenge in several places, but we all slowly worked our way thru and finally made it to the bridges of I70 high above.
I had to engage the lockers and.... uh, 'test' them.... make sure they still worked!
