The M~U~D Trip Report: 1000 Miles of Utah Dirt

getting harder and harder each and every year.

 

yeah..sadly. Montana and ID are the next spots people and rushing too. Wyo as a way to go but we kinda have our own summer rush problems with Yellowstone haha

 

gotta admit between this and the latest UT report...you got that itch craving under my skin 1000x now. i need my desert fix ASAP!

 

The desert is CALLING!!!

Good thing RT isn't too far away for ya! Gonna be a great time of year for it.

 

last Oct was beautiful over there...foliage in full effect and very comfortable daytime temp and perfect campfire night temps...

hoping to get some non-RT exploring done in UT before the year is done tho...

 

well it is your neighbor and close for you. Id do it too if i could.

Love it out there.

Jealous of my brother. Goes to school at Western. So can ski if he wants or goes climbing in Utah if the powder sucks lol

 

Thanks for the report. As always a great read and amazing pictures. MUST GET WEST!

 

Thanks for reading! Yes! Come west. Tis the best

 

Question for you. If you had one or two days in the Hanksville area, what trails or trail would you run? I'm trying to find a good way to burn a day or two between Escalante and Moab. Thanks again for all of your awesome trip reports!

 

Ooo tricky...

I think poison creek was really cool. If the dirty devil river is low enough and you can make it all the way through into the maze. Then you get to the 4 way intersection you can go south out to Hite. Be a nice loop.

Any other direction and you'll need 2 days minimum. Or just quite in and out. Plus can't camp in the maze without a permit. You can if you are on the blm land around it though

 

Thanks man. I'll look into poison creek for sure. I knew you'd have a suggestion for me!

 

Looks like your living the dream brother.

 

If only forever...haha

 

You did poison spring canyon too right? It takes you to a crossing of the dirty devil and then turns in to Hatch Canyon? I think maybe this is what you were talking about. Sorry, those posts of yours are so damn long (yet awesome) it takes forever to go back through and find the information I'm looking for. Poison Creek OHV trail is located northwest of Escalante which is kind of in the wrong direction of where I want to go.

 

Sorry. Yes it's poison spring canyon!

I have a gpx file of it I can get you tonight when I'm back at my own computer

 

That would be awesome! PM me if you need an email address or something. Thanks again!

 

we started right at Loma off the interstate.

Trail is fairly well marked. But there are spots it is not well marked at all. Cisco area particularly has a lot of side roads you could get turned around in.

I have a nice gpx track. Only thing worth noting to not follow as you are aware is to take onion creek road unless you want to do TOTW and Cottonwood canyon. Otherwise, I wouldn't bother doing that part as you'd have to go down Rose garden. Wouldn't be wise in your rig. I can send it later today when i get home, don't have it here at work.

 

I don't know what site we stayed in, Mike did the reservation.

Im not entirely sure what you mean by the home..the trails there are marked but not overly great. One is and one isn't.

 

What caves? the hike out there is spanish bottom and if you read the report the other is the Granary. You'll want to do one but not the other.

Again...read the report

 

the first part we took was not well marked. But there is a well marked trail further down which is the way we came out.