This morning we went for a little ride in a Jeep. Not just any Jeep…
This Jeep Wrangler Rubicon has about $200,000 worth of aftermarket parts and other enhancements. While a standard Jeep can handle inclines of 35 degrees, this one can handle 70 degrees! (This is another one of our caravaners who took the Jeep ride…)
We headed up the adjacent hills to the east…
It was a beautiful day…
We were on “slickrocks”, which are really slippery when wet, but actually slightly sticky when dry. We did what they called “crawling” – engage the extreme low four wheel drive gear and let the Jeep “crawl” over these rocks. With the extreme independent suspension and shocks with the anti-tipping mechanism we crawled up the mountainside over rocks that would tip over an ordinary Jeep…
Up the steep rocks and down the other side…
Pictures don’t do it justice… But it really steep. We went up and down over 4′ rock ledges…
(This is another of our caravaners who took the Jeep ride…)
None of this was really dangerous because, while the rocks were steep, they weren’t really tall… The extreme Jeep maneuvers go up rocks 200 and 300 feet high… We didn’t do any of that. We did go fast, after the boulders were past… It was riding on a roller coaster going around the curves in the path…
So we survived and returned to the RV Park. The rest of the day we spent in Arches National Park…
I know… More rocks… These are really fun rocks. The arches are a short walk from the road. Lynda climbed up into one and appears to be having an enjoyable time…
These narrow rocks are called fins – fins are what will eventually form arches if the conditions are right… We walked among the fins on the softest, finest, powdery sand I had ever seen…
We spent all day in Arches NP, but we did have to return to Moab to go to dinner. The Sunset Grill is in the former house of a uranium miner who got fabulously rich in the rush to find and extract uranium in the 1950s. The house has a commanding view of the Moab valley, including our RV Park…
And an enjoyable time was had by all…
Adventures in the Villa 