poplar road

Back in late May, Chris, Dagny, Richard and I went on a road trip together to Moab, where we were joined by cousin Greg in his Unimog. Since Richard’s truck wasn’t operational, we rented a Jeep in town, paying the premium for a modified one that could go on more trails – it’s the bright yellow one in the following pics. And since, even modified, it wasn’t nearly as extreme as Mechano, we were restricted in what trails we could go on. That meant most of our rock-crawling was more like sight-seeing, but with the whole desert in bloom and lots of variety in terrain, vegetation, and climate, there was a lot to see! I’m just starting to catch up on our summer events – seems like we were away every single weekend – so I’m going to do brief descriptions and no captions. I can elaborate in the Comments if anyone has questions.

We drove up to Gemini Bridges and the Canyonlands viewpoint on day one, spent a long hot day on the familiar rock slopes of Poison Spider Mesa on day two, had a fantastic time enjoying the scenery and the occasional challenging obstacle on Steel Bender on our third day, and drove way, way up to the Top of the World (at left) on our final outing on the last morning, before Richard, Greg and I headed east to La Junta, Colorado.

The return leg through Wyoming, Montana, northern Idaho, and Washington might have passed in a drowsy blur, had we not broken the tongue off our trailer (fully loaded with Unimog attachments) just as we reached the last exit for Livingston, Montana. We were rescued by some really hospitable townsfolk, steered in the direction of a fantastic prime rib dinner and a good night’s sleep, and we were back on the road home just in time. Another eventful road trip!