Moab,
Utah Moab,
Utah Note: All information on this page was written June 1995.
In early 1995, Steve, John, and I decided to drive to Moab, Utah to go 4 wheeling at all the famous trails we had been reading about in the national magazines. We left on June 17 and took three days to drive from Atlanta, Georgia to Moab, Utah (about 2000 miles).We drove through St. Louis, Missouri where John's son wanted to look at the Bigfoot monster trucks. The shop that owns and builds them is located in St. Louis.
Interstate 70 between Kansas City and Denver is the worst interstate highway I have ever driven. The road surface was incredibly bad, keeping our speed down to about 60 miles per hour with the trailers. The big problem was that it was 700 miles of bad highway.
John was the only one with a winch, which actually proved fairly useless because
there aren't any solid places to attach a winch cable (i.e., no trees).
We did use a big rock as a winch anchor at one point, but the rock moved
and it was me that it moved towards.
In Moab, it soon became obvious that the most important vehicle modifications are the lockers and very low gearing either in the differential, the transfer case, the transmission or a combination of all three. Personally, I am a big proponent of manual transmissions, so I loved my granny low first gear in Moab. Some people prefer to use automatics in Moab (and elsewhere), but I like the engine braking action as a backup to my regular brakes. Big tires or a tall lift are not only a disadvantage, but probably a danger because you'll be so tall that you are more likely to roll over.
I have images of photos for the following sites and trails. Each of these pages consists of a set of thumbnail images that you can select to get a larger image:
We spent about six days in Moab, riding trails and viewing the sights. After that, it was three days drive back to Atlanta. If we go again, we will have to try to drive it in two days. We had kids along and they can't sit still for 16 or 18 hours in the truck each day.
