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A group of us is going to ride the Swell in January. We're meeting at Miller's Convenience store on Friday Jan. 10 at 1400 and I'm thinking we'll head back Sunday evening. Right now we're thinking Castle Dale to Little Grand Canyon overlook then through Buckhorn Draw, beneath 80 to Temple...

Sunday trip out to Newfoundland Mountains. I'd like to go back. Has anyone had trouble w/ the Union Pacific railroad dicks on the causeway? I believe it must be a public throughway. Otherwise, they'd have a locked gate to keep the riff raff out. The causeway Go Beers Miner's Basin /...

Hello all. Just a quick post about a four-wheel journey to the top of Stansbury Island. I wanted to test my new carb regulator on a steep slope so I drove up the road through Tabby's Canyon just beyond the shooting area on the south end. The road kept going and going and soon I was on top of the...

Finally finished my new guidebook on the San Rafael Swell. Available on Amazon. If you buy, please review it! Unless you hate it! But you shouldn't because it is chock-full of great trails that I want to see left open forever. Thanks! Backroads of Utah's San Rafael Swell

I ran down to the San Rafael Swell a couple weeks ago. Just a quick three-day weekend trip. Drove to Box Flat and Big Hole in Pack Saddle Gulch. Then I drove over to Fix-It-Pass and the North Fork of Coal Wash. I was going to skip the Devil's Racetrack but met up with a couple from Denver with a...

North Fork Coal Wash Oct. 14-16, 2017 I'd like to drive North Fork Coal Wash over to Oil Well Flat in the San Rafael Swell, and maybe try the Devil's Racetrack this fall. Don't know how doable the racetrack is in a Jeep w/out fuel injection or lockers. It would be great to go with someone who...

I'm going to put together a book on the best backroads on the Colorado Plateau. I'm considering the title "Sublime Backroads of the Colorado Plateau." The maps will be in the style of those created by Erwin Raisz (http://raiszmaps.com/index.html). I'm putting together a list of contenders...

This is a quick note to the forum members @ RME, some of whom may have met me a few years ago when I helped put an expedition together to the Swell. I wrote a book a few years back called "Highway 12" about Utah State Highway 12 that runs from Panguitch to Torrey. I'm thinking about writing...

I just moved my family up to Salt Lake from Mt. Pleasant in central Utah. I'm driving a truck but looking for a local job so I can get back to exploring southern Utah with my '81 Cj-5. I wrote a book about State Route 12 in central Utah called "Highway 12." My website is www.cprobasco.com.

Made a two-day trip down to Robbers Roost east of the San Rafael Swell last week. Above is a shot of the Kokapelli petroglyph at the Moore cutoff to I-70 on the way. Here's what I believe is an offshoot of Roost Canyon: Got into some rough country. Got lost. Camped out in the cold and built a...

Stressed office worker needs escape from civilization, pronto. Anyone interested in a mid-August weekend four-wheel trip to/through Robbers Roost (and possible hike to Horseshoe Canyon) or Little Egypt, Needles or Comb Ridge? Maybe I could take a day off and make it a three-day weekend.

Dear all; I hope I'm not breaking forum rules. If so, I apologize. Delete this thread. I blog on land use issues. My latest article just came out at New West. Please leave comments! This has been a fairly one-sided issue until recently. Eric

Dear friends; I need to install 3.31 gears in my Dana 44 in my CJ-5 Heep. That's r and p, case, bearings, the whole shebang. AAMPCO in Provo wants $270. Anybody know someone who'll do it for less $$? I'm in Mt. Pleasant. That's near the center of Utah. I'll drive as far as N. Salt Lake...

I bought a Dana 44, center-diff., narrow track w/ 4.27s for my CJ-5. I want to change to 3.31 gears but can't find any outside ID on the tube, the diff, anywhere. No year stamp, no serial number. Nothing. I've been all over it. Now I come to find out there were 3 or 4 different versions of...

I'm gonna try to knock a few more things off my "places I haven't visited" list this spring and summer, such as: Hiking into Canyonlands’ Horeshoe Canyon Hiking/four-wheeling in and around the Needles district Four-wheeling up to Behind the Rocks (if the Heep will make it)...

We met at Gilly’s convenience store early on Fri. and assessed our three vehicle’s conditions. Kevin’s red Jeep was doing fine at the time. Andrew’s Toyota was emanating vibrations from the overheating, grease-slewing rear axle but he had driven it all night from his home near Logan, so how bad...

Four-wheelers: I’m the author of “Highway 12” about Utah’s only All-American highway, which stretches from Hatch to Torrey. I’m thinking about writing a series of articles about “last places.” These are the areas on the Utah (and N. Arizona) map I haven’t gotten around to exploring yet...

Thinking about exploring the San Rafael this winter (2009). Maybe a 3 day excursion. Anybody else interested?