2005

 

 

 

Moab, Utah

 

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Moab, Ahhhhhhhhhhh, Ahhhhh, Moab! Moab, Moab, Moab!  MOAB, It's a place like no other!  Slickrock jeepin' is quite different from any Colorado jeepin'.  With 'sandpaper' like traction, only gravity is your enemy. The beautiful reds, whites, and peach colors of the rocks add to the scenery of every trail you challenge.  We are so fortunate to be only 7 hours away here in Denver.  If you go after Memorial Day and before Labor Day, it's a hot one, so prepare for it and bring lot's of water!  Rafters, Hikers, Mountain Bikers, and Jeepers know the area for it's wonderful red rock scenery, and 'Moab Slickrock'.  Many of you already know, as you have 'been there', it's a playground for grown-ups.  No other place in the country comes close; Moab is 'Jeepin Heaven'!

 

Click above for a 'cool' air photo of Moab!!

   The HoboJeepers met up as early as Thursday May 26th, and ventured west on I-70 towards the 'Slickrock Gods' for the long anticipated 2005 Memorial Day Weekend.  With drive days on Thursday and Monday, it leaves 3 days (and one night) of trails in Moab!!

   The 2005 MEMORIAL MOAB group consisted of Hobos: Paul 'Weiszguy' Weisz & son Brett (CJ-arriving Thursday night), myself (Bill "Willy" Hallinan-CJ7) and my jeepin' sidekick Molly, arriving Thursday afternoon with Mark Jensen  (TJ), Scott 'Mad Max' Maxwell with son Tom (TJ-arrived Friday).  Pete Ramirez (TJ-arriving on Friday), and Jeff Simmons (TJ-arriving Friday).

   For the past few months we have anticipated this trip to MOAB!  Mark and I arrived Thursday afternoon and set up camp about 2:30pm (6.5 hour trip) just north of Moab.  We relaxed in the afternoon shade and readied for a few fun filled days of slick rock and scenery, bring on Moab!

   One warning for tent campers: for some reason, thousands of very small white larve (gnats maybe) were able to infiltrate my tent netting and invade my tent in 2003, what a feeling waking up to that!  I was camped under a Tamarisk tree, I hear the larva come up from the moist saline soil once a year, well thousands did that year!

   There were very few 'camp fixes' for the weekend.  On the 1st day-Friday, Paul busted a transmission mount bolt, but was able to fix it.   Ahhh, Moab!

    The weather was hot (low to mid-90's), but it's almost summer in Moab.  For 3 fun days, we followed 6 different trails up and over numerous obstacles, ledges, and fields of slickrock!  From the difficult 4+ Hell's Revenge Trail to the 3.5-Sevenmile Rim Trail 'Night Run', on to Steel Bender 4, and finally building to the tour on Sunday- Dalton Mesa, Fins and Things, and Porcupine Rim Trails, we certainly got our fill!!  Aaahhhh-Moab!!

Click on a link below to a daily trip report from the

Memorial Moab Run 2005...

Friday, May 27th-Day 1

HELL'S REVENGE TRAIL

Friday 'Night' May 27th-Day 1

SEVENMILE RIM TRAIL-'Night Run'

Saturday, May 28th-Day 2

STEEL BENDER TRAIL

Sunday, May 29th-Day3

DALTON MESA/ FINS & THINGS/

PORCUPINE RIM TRAILS

"Moab, A jeepers paradise"

Storylines, captions, and website construction by:

BILL HALLINAN  HoboJeepers

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Click on a link below to a trip report from the

Memorial Moab Run 2003...

Friday, Day 1

HELL'S REVENGE

Saturday, Day 2

SEVENMILE RIM 'NITE RUN'

Sunday, Day3

PRITCHETT CANYON

Sunday, Day3

POISON SPIDER/ GOLDEN SPIKE/ GOLD BAR RIM

OR--Click on a link below to a trip report from the

Memorial Moab Run 2002...

Friday, Day 1

HELL'S REVENGE

Saturday, Day 2

FLAT IRON MESA/

E. BEHIND THE ROCKS TRAIL

Sunday, Day3

POISON SPIDER/ GOLDEN SPIKE/ GOLD BAR RIM

OR- click on link below to a trip report from the

Memorial Moab Run 2001...

Friday, Day 1

STEEL BENDER

Saturday, Day 2

HELL'S REVENGE

Sunday, Day3

POISON SPIDER LOOP/ GOLDEN SPIKE/ GOLD BAR RIM

click on link below  to a trip report from the

Memorial Moab Run 2000...

Friday, Day 1

FINS AND THINGS/HELL'S REVENGE

Saturday, Day 2

HELL'S REVENGE 110%

Sunday, Day3

POISON SPIDER LOOP/ GOLDEN SPIKE/ GOLD BAR RIM

click on link below  to a trip report from the

Sept 99 Moab Run...

HELL'S REVENGE

METAL MASHER/ ARTH'S RIM

POISON SPIDER/ GOLDEN SPIKE/ GOLD BAR RIM

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