San Rafael quickie

[Hayes]

Quick overnight solo run down to the Swell on T-day weekend. Beautiful weather, ample solitude, and some fun wheeling.

Me, my brother-in-law, and a co-worker left SLC at 10:30 am. We made our way from UT10 to the Wedge, forded the San Rafael, then made our way up Coal Wash to the Devil's Racetrack.

Whipped-up a quick campfire, drank many cheap beers, and told many stories. Believe it or not, my friend and co-worker who recently moved out here from Alabama truly saw the Milky Way for the first time in his life.
Temperatures dropped down into the 20's F, but that didn't stop us from sleeping out under the stars.

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[Hayes]

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The next morning we dismantled our fire, brewed some coffee, and headed up the Devil's Racetrack for some entertaining 4x4. Neither of my passengers had been on anything like it before (3.5 rated?), and both were impressed.
Pinched the end of my tailpipe shut coming off one of the ledges.

Massively cool flexi shot:

We hit I-70 before 10 am, and decided to cruise down to Black Dragon Wash. Very very cool, deep canyon. Great pictographs. No great photos.

From there we continued up the canyon and then on to Buckhorn Wash. After a quick stop at the rock art, we zipped up the canyon to complete our loop, hit UT10, and were home in time for dinner.

 

[cruiseroutfit]

Looks like you had a great time. DMC and I ended up in the Swell that weekend too, just dropping off a secret project though Would have been fun to bump into you AGAIN in the Swell, one of these days we'll have to get down there together!

 

[SOAZ]

Amazing pics!!

 

[mountainpete]

Great trip and wonderful pics!

 

[daverami]

Great pictures. I really want to go there, that whole area really. Maybe next year.

 

[Hayes]

Looks like you had a great time. DMC and I ended up in the Swell that weekend too, just dropping off a secret project though Would have been fun to bump into you AGAIN in the Swell, one of these days we'll have to get down there together!

Very mysterious.
Yeah, we need to rendezvous some time.

I had intended to drive Fix-It Pass, but we took a right turn at the bottom of the Racetrack to chase the setting sun. The next day we just continued on down the trail.

Next time.