Moab – Monday – EJS Week!

The group had to get up early, so we can get to the staging area and get checked in.

The trail that the Dirt Devils paid for was Pritchett Canyon. The trail is the only trail that is rate 5 on any list. When Easter Jeep Safari (EJS) does a trail they will stop any other people to go onto the trail, so the EJS has exclusive rights to the trial. For this trail, they limit the number of participates on the trail to 15 to 20.

The group left the staging area to head for the trail head.

Once at the trail head, we picked up one more vehicle to the group, so we had 15 vehicles totals for this group and the Dirt Devils made up 6. We had a BLM guy ride with the leader a little ways into the trail. He did give a very positive talk about how the clubs/ESJ groups usually very good about the usage of the environment.

Once we started. The going was going really good. The trail leader did point out in two different locations that we should not play in because it is in the wilderness study area.

The first problem was a guy had ground and carburetors problems. Those were resolved.

The obstacles are getting harder and harder. Some of the obstacles were nothing to think of when I ran the trail 3 years ago, but now you have to pay attention else you can get in trouble.

I did a lot of spotting for our club on several of the step climbs. When we made it to the ‘rocker knocker’, I spotted the whole club through the bypass route.

The straps and winch lines came out several times on the trail. The last two to get a winch line was Jeff and Dan so as of Monday – they have the cow bell for at least a day, maybe more.

I did go out with a small group from the club to enjoy a nice dinner at an Italian restaurant in beautiful down town Moab, UT.