Moab: Day 1

Dave says: We left for Moab on Friday afternoon and drove halfway to Holbrook.  On Saturday morning, we did the second leg of the trip and made it to the south side of town by the early afternoon with plenty of daylight left for a big adventure. On this trip, we loaded mountain bikes inside the Mazda5 with our hiking gear and pulled the atv behind us. The plan was to do multiple adventures of different types every day of the trip.

 

 

Our first adventure was out of the Hook and Ladder OHV area. There was incredible scenery and some great slickrock. On the slickrock, they paint the  The trail ultimately led out to an overlook of Wilso arch but one of the best parts was El Diablo, a major slickrock climb that was crazy-steep. I have never gone up anything this steep on an atv before but the traction on sandstone is incredible. Alisha hopped off and pulled out her phone to snap some photos here:

On the way back, we took a really amazing trail that followed some 100+ foot tall sandstone cliffs and was like a roller coaster of sand and rock. We finished just after 5 pm right as it was getting dark. When we got to our deluxe accomodations (Motel 6), we made an equally deluxe dinner in the room (canned soup) and planned out our adventures for the next day.