Proposed Swell trip.

I got a letter in the mail asking for fees and sales tax, so titleage may be imminent. It's time to start thinking seriously about how I want to break her in, and I believe I've settled on a trip into the Swell.

Everything is rough at this point, but I'm thinking on heading down on a Friday afternoon/evening and setting up camp somewhere in Buckmaster Wash or thereabouts, then driving Black Dragon to Jackass Benches Saturday morning. Then I'd hop the freeway to catch Eagle Canyon north, camping Saturday night somewhere in Coal Wash, and then trend north Sunday on dirt until time or fuel forces me back to the highway. That will leave plenty of time for lazy mornings and breaks from driving to hike or check out rock art/archeology/cool stuff (or take rockin' photos of our trucks ). There won't be anything on that route too burly for a stock rig except maybe one section of Black Dragon, and it should be easy enough to turn around and skip that section if it's too hairy.

I have no dates on this yet - being in a new rig, I would not be averse to some company so I'm flexible on that. Post up if you're down and what dates work for you... I have every other weekend off, so I'd be looking at Nov 24th/25th, Dec 7th/8th, etc.

Dec. 7-9 works best for me. Looks like it'll be a break-in run for the Tundra too!

I might be interested. I've done Jackass Benches before. Lots of rough driving. If you end up going out there, I recommend the 2 mile hike to swasey's leap. You'll have to do some scrambling to get to the actual leap, but it's worth it.

Eagle Canyon is absolutely my favorite trail down there. i'd like to try black dragon, I've never been there before.

In terms of how fun the drive was, Eagle Canyon/Devils Racetrack is my favoritest trail ever so far. I really want to do Fixit Pass to Devils Racetrack backwards later this summer.

We have got to go to moab, you'll be blown away.

sixstringsteve wrote:We have got to go to moab, you'll be blown away.

February, right?

I don't think I could pull an over night this close to Thanksgiving in Moab and Christmas. But how far is it to drive down Saturday morning then hitting the freeway home rather than Eagle Canyon? I would like to go just can't pull off the whole trip.

Thardy wrote:I don't think I could pull an over night this close to Thanksgiving in Moab and Christmas. But how far is it to drive down Saturday morning then hitting the freeway home rather than Eagle Canyon? I would like to go just can't pull off the whole trip.

3 hours to Black Dragon from Salt Lake. Less for you. You could meet us early, follow us up Eagle Canyon and then I think you could keep going up Coal Wash and find pavement before it got too late. Lemme play with some maps.

I can go if you choose Dec 7-8th. I'm not to thrilled about doing Jackass Benches again, but I might be able to be talked into it. I'd like to hike down to swasey's leap, but it'd be pretty sketchy in the snow.

sixstringsteve wrote:I can go if you choose Dec 7-8th. I'm not to thrilled about doing Jackass Benches again, but I might be able to be talked into it. I'd like to hike down to swasey's leap, but it'd be pretty sketchy in the snow.

I think it's jackass or do BD as an in and out. I wouldn't object to that if Jackass is that lame.

Still researching, though

This is definitely not going to happen this weekend.