Re: Wendover to St. George on dirt

by **Kevin** Mon Feb 06, 2017 12:10 pm

Bennamin wrote:Pretty good chance of snow. Not that it's a bad thing. My buddy and I were planning on taking the Varsity scouts to the dunes this weekend. He has a tow company, and a fun activity is taking a (almost dead) car out on a hauler, and let the youngsters experience driving, getting stuck, getting unstuck, etc. Plans changed when he drove out there Saturday and found that there's a foot of snow. BLM area north of Little Sahara.

Say Ben, it's a little off topic for this thread (ok it's a lot off topic), but what sort of almost dead cars does your buddy have that he'd let go for super super cheap right now? Looking for something to drive in the Gambler 500.

by Bennamin Mon Feb 06, 2017 12:35 pm

Kevin wrote:
Say Ben, it's a little off topic for this thread (ok it's a lot off topic), but what sort of almost dead cars does your buddy have that he'd let go for super super cheap right now? Looking for something to drive in the Gambler 500.

I will check with him. Never know what he's got around his place Twisted Evil

by **dutchman** Tue Feb 07, 2017 10:31 am

TRD270 wrote:If we follow Dave's lead for camps and fuel stops

Night one would be in the area of 39.511490 -114.200897

Night two 38.340767 -113.620193 (which is a cool old mine site..... but is now leveled )

and Night three could be up for debate depending on how close to st. george we want to be

That puts us on average around 190 miles a day.

Have you guys decided if you'll be camping at these locations each night?

by TRD270 Tue Feb 07, 2017 11:44 am

I'd like to stay at the night two coordinates because I think its a cool site. I think Kevin has something else planned for night 1 I defer to him on that one

by **Kevin** Tue Feb 07, 2017 12:19 pm

I have no plans. I'm doing my best to make Josh have plans because I'm tired of being the one with the plans, but he's not cooperating.

by TRD270 Tue Feb 07, 2017 12:36 pm

by TRD270 Mon Feb 13, 2017 10:57 pm

SOOOOOOOOOOO.......... Kevin since you left me last week did you make a decision on night one yet?

Also who all is attending?

by **Kevin** Tue Feb 14, 2017 6:51 am

TRD270 wrote:SOOOOOOOOOOO.......... Kevin since you left me last week did you make a decision on night one yet?

I mean, I could let you off the hook. But I'm not.

by TRD270 Tue Feb 14, 2017 10:51 am

So I guess we are figuring it out when you decide on the road.

But seriously..... who's attending

by Bennamin Tue Feb 14, 2017 4:30 pm

TRD270 wrote:So I guess we are figuring it out when you decide on the road.

But seriously..... who's attending

I'm sittin' back and watching...
I can't get outta work that week, so I'd be looking at either driving out late Thursday night (not real appealing) or extremely early Friday morning (also not vastly appealing)... if I knew where anyone would be. And I could do it, whether it's appealing or not, but that's my only options. Or quit. But the perks are nice, so...

Oh, and it'll be before I can take a Ham test, so I couldn't use the cool new toy I have... legally Evil or Very Mad

by TRD270 Tue Feb 14, 2017 7:58 pm

Thursday night should be at 38.340767 -113.620193 unless we leave Thursday, then you'll have to consult Kevin on camp

by **Kevin** Wed Feb 15, 2017 1:41 pm

TRD270 wrote:If we follow Dave's lead for camps and fuel stops

Night one would be in the area of 39.511490 -114.200897

Night two 38.340767 -113.620193 (which is a cool old mine site..... but is now leveled )

and Night three could be up for debate depending on how close to st. george we want to be

That puts us on average around 190 miles a day.

I haven't been to the first site, I don't know anything about it but it works for me for Wednesday night. The second site is very cool and would be an awesome place to camp. There are some more mining ruins just up the road that I've been meaning to check out so that'll be a great stop Thursday night. I don't have any way to open the .gpx right now, where did Dave stay the third night?

Bennamin wrote:Oh, and it'll be before I can take a Ham test, so I couldn't use the cool new toy I have... legally

I wouldn't get on a busy repeater and start bellowing, but nobody is going to know or care if we're in the middle of desert on simplex. Bring the radio, and I won't tell if you don't.

by TRD270 Wed Feb 15, 2017 5:03 pm

Thought you wanted to get to the basin park on the first night? Thats why I was suggesting you finding something

by **Kevin** Wed Feb 15, 2017 7:42 pm

I want to spend more time in the park then we're going to have. I'll save that for another trip.

by TRD270 Wed Feb 15, 2017 9:22 pm

Not particularly attached to night one camp, its just where Dave stopped. There does appear to be a small tailings pond and some sort of ruin just to the south

by TRD270 Thu Feb 16, 2017 9:46 am

So i'm gathering this is another Kevin and Josh trip?

by **dutchman** Thu Feb 16, 2017 9:58 am

I'm out this one. Work has me scheduled to do some custom training for a client in Denver the following week, so I'll be doing homework that weekend.

by TRD270 Thu Feb 16, 2017 9:59 am

You can study at camp

by **dutchman** Thu Feb 16, 2017 10:15 am

With my laptop and internet service?! Also, wifey has something scheduled that Saturday and my presence has been requested.

by TRD270 Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:14 am

I'll bring my hotspot

by TRD270 Sun Feb 19, 2017 6:11 pm

This portion of the state is looking awful soggy, you still want to give it a go this time of year Kevin?

I'd be down for a swell, or escalante, or something trip if we want to reroute

by **Kevin** Mon Feb 20, 2017 12:37 am

I'm down for whatever. When we scheduled this I expected it to be dry, with maybe some snow or ice. I'm willing to slog the mud but I wouldn't turn down a trip to the Swell or Escalante or both if you want to do that instead. Should we start at the Wedge and just work our way down and see how far we get?

by TRD270 Mon Feb 20, 2017 7:04 pm

Wedge to Escalante sounds intriguing, especially with the weather. I can't seem to find Dempsey's simplex chart want to pick a channel incase Ben tries to come find us?

by **Kevin** Tue Feb 21, 2017 12:55 am

Yup. You and I should be on an empty simplex frequency, but Sinbad should have repeaters all the way down. I'll have a look once it slows down tonight.

edit - hrm, Ben doesn't have a call yet and probably shouldn't be getting on a repeater net. That'll make finding us problematic unless you want to try and nail down some campsites.

by TRD270 Tue Feb 21, 2017 2:11 am

I'm assuming we are spending night one in the wedge? Which really won't matter to Ben. I've never been so i'll leave that up to you. I'll try and do some route finding tomorrow, work prevented that from happening tonight. I have a ton of crap to get done, and have a meeting with our architect, sooooo we may be winging it and advising Ben if we get some service

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