Some White Rim Trail pics

[BigSwede]

MORE PICS ADDED 6/18/12

Went on White Rim trail in Canyonlands National Park, thought I'd share a few pics. I really enjoyed the trail, I have been to Moab many times but it was really cool to get out there where you are pretty much by yourself...we only met a few vehicles in two days on the trail. And the trail itself, while not technical driving for the most part, is actually quite fun to drive, with lots of interesting climbs, switchbacks, ledge roads that will have you leaning away from the precipice, etc.

This is our group of vehicles, my 95 Trooper, a VehiCross, and a 2012 Wrangler Rubicon

The view from Island in the Sky. You can see the trail far below, and in the distance the whitish ledge rock that gives the trail its name.

So how do you get down to the trail, you ask? Via the Shafer Switchbacks...a test for those with a fear of heights.

Not far into the trail there is a short hike to an overlook

Musselman Arch, which you can walk across if you are brave

The view from Gooseberry camp

Thus endeth day one.

 

[HenryJ]

Great photos. Thanks for sharing.

 

[BigSwede]

White Rim, Day 2

Green River

 

[roverrocks]

Very nice! Great pics. My family with another ran it 6 years ago in February. Snowed overnight on us the last night of camping in Potato Bottoms. Anybody who hasn't run the White Rim Trail is missing out on a load of fun and fantastic scenery. One of those "must do before I die" trails. Thanks for posting.

 

[chicken corners]

Thank you.

 

[Larry]

Great pics BigSwede. The White Rim trail is definitely one of my favorite’s places to venture around. I’d love to return now that Mineral Bottom is open where the trail can be done in one loop rather than just ¾ of the way.

 

[BigSwede]

Thanks everybody.

The switchbacks on Mineral Bottom road are interesting in and of themselves...perhaps not quite as exciting as Shafer, but close.

 

[Larry]

My avatar picture was actually taken on the Shafer Switchbacks while we were waiting on a road grader to let us squeeze by in July 2011 just before the sky opened up and started raining like crazy. Neat place!

 

[Hill Bill E.]

Great Pics Big Swede! I definitely need to run that my next trip out west.

 

[Mc Taco]

Thanks for the motivation. Usually don't get done with classes until mid June so the heat and crowds keep me away from Southern Utah and Northern Arizona Parks. Probably going to be furloughed next year so I can go in May. Any body want to join a trip in May 2013?

 

[Explorer 1]

One feels so small.....

Thanks for sharing, one feels so small on that trail, it's difficult to get perspective of the size of the cliffs in a picture!

Thanks
Fred
Explorer 1

 

[Willman]

This is a great trail!

Thanks for sharing

 

[conifers4]

Very dramatic pictures for those of us on the East Coast..thank you

 

[Funrover]

I really need to get out there. Thanks for the pictures!

 

[BigSwede]

Very dramatic pictures for those of us on the East Coast..thank you

One of the great things about Moab and the area is that everything about it in terms of terrain and climate are so very different from where I am from (Minnesota), you really feel like you are "getting away from it all".