Moab: Day 2

Dave says: Hike, atv, bike, sleep. Here are the highlights from an amazing day 2 in Moab. We started the day with a hike out to Corona Arch. The weather was amazing and so was the scenery.

 

 

 

 

From the hike, we went directly to the trailhead of the famous Poison Spider Trail. This trail climbs up into the slickrock mesas with some tough obstacles and some incredible views. 

 

This trail ended at an overlook with a great view of Moab. We stopped here for some PB & J for lunch.

 

 

The Poison Spider trail often joins the Golden Spike trail and we headed off on this trail for a bit of a detour. Here's an amazing rock that we climbed up. It wasn't overly steep and so I turned around at the top, came back down to pick Alisha up, and then drove back to the top with her. The other side had a descent that was much steeper. On the way back, I hit it going up rather than down.

 

 

On the way back, we went down a few tough obstacles. They were actually all easier on going down than going up though. I had one on the "Waterfall" that I had to take two shots at going up and it took a bit of speed and spinning all four wheels to make it up. No close calls though. There are some obstacles that we just don't have a long enough wheelbase for and I leave those to the modified Jeeps.

 

 

Finally, we made it back in time to go on a sunset bike ride. Right across the street from our hotel is a paved trail that leads out towards Arches and Canyon Lands. Our easy ride took us up just past the turnoff to Arches and we made it back right as it was getting dark.