I use the udot cameras @ ghost rock & temple exit when I head that way

3TV wrote on 03/23/23 at 12:51:49:


Moab is clear on SOME trails. I was just there and Behind the Rocks was not passable due to snow. Some portions of the 3DJeep trail also had quite a bit of snow and Moab has gotten more snow since. Just take good care and have fun!

3TV wrote on 03/23/23 at 19:35:35:


You're back to a 2 door Wrangler, correct? What are you doing to the Jeep now? Driving home from Marysvale, we heard a loud bang and what sounded like a Spring go flying. Pulled to the side, looked around and saw nothing. The remainder of the drive home, the Gladiator was swaying hard side to side on the front-end. Turns out, the quick release and cotter pin on my drivers side sway bar came free and what we heard was the bolt going flying. Sway bar was just bouncing around..  

The Jeep is pretty much finished.  Stock axles with stock 4.56 gears and Rubicon lockers.  A 2.5" MetalCloak Game Changer lift, 37s, winch and on-board air, and RSE stepsliders.  Still waiting on a set of Fox 2.5 DSC adjustable shocks, and a set of MetalCloak Undercloak skid plates.

I took a bad line coming down this ledge today.  See that bright new scrape about 4 feet to the left of the main line?  Yeah, that's mine.  The skid plates aren't so pretty anymore, and absolutely everything on the back of the Jeep got drug down the ledge when the rear tires dropped off.  It was super slow, but the receiver hitch, the tow hook, all four exhaust tips, and the spare tire got drug on that one.  Should have built for 39s, ... or learn how to drive.

The Fox shocks are coming from Accu Tune, and are custom valved, not off the shelf from Fox.

We need to do Cliffhanger trail in late April after the Safari, or early May.  I always liked that trail before but haven't done it for decades.

I've done both trails, but it was decades ago for both of them.  I would be up for either one.  

I here they are no longer doing the "Dump Bump" obstacle at the start of Hells Revenge.  It was a near vertical 10 foot high slickrock wall that you had to climb at the very start of the trail (there was a bypass that 90% of people took).  I stood a TJ right up on the spare tire once on that one.  The Escalator wasn't part of the trail when I did it either.  We did an obstacle called Tip Over Challenge instead.

Do you need a permit to do Elephant Hill?

Several of us are just returning from Green River and the San Rafael Swell area. I'm happy to report its DUSTY, no moisture on the ground and the San Rafael and Green Rivers are wide and raging!

Some especially fun sections on the western side of the Orange Trail..