White Rim Trail Trip Report

[adventureduo]

Thanks everyone for the kind remarks. Here's a few more photos that didn't manage to make it in the report...

 

[adventureduo]

Some more....

 

[adventureduo]

Last ones...

 

[FJRanger]

Thanks for the additional photos Dave.

 

[ujoint]

Just read this report (finally!)

Excellent as usual!!!

 

[JCMatthews]

Great report! I have had the great opportunity to run the White Rim on two different occasions. Once with my group of Varsity Scouts, and then in the fall 2010 following the floods that washed out the Mineral Bottom switch backs. That trip was all the way in and out in two days. We were trying to rescue a friends truck that was stranded there because of the flood. Due to road conditions it spent the winter at the river take out point. Anyway the White Rim is amazing, and you documented it well. I attached one picture that made me feel small

 

[BigSwede]

Ran WRT in May, very cool to see it in the snow, thanks!

 

[DRYVEM]

Great report! Were you glad you didn't have the teardrop? We are contemplating doing the WRT, but don't know about taking our teardrop.

Barbara

 

[JCMatthews]

Great report! Were you glad you didn't have the teardrop? We are contemplating doing the WRT, but don't know about taking our teardrop.

Barbara

All three times I traveled the WR I was pulling an M 416. It was not difficult at all. Here are a couple pics and a video. The one picture of just the trailer is to show just how full it was at times. When we were not on the bikes it could get pretty overloaded.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8_7HoWfrmE

 

[LexusAllTerrain]

All three times I traveled the WR I was pulling an M 416. It was not difficult at all. Here are a couple pics and a video. The one picture of just the trailer is to show just how full it was at times. When we were not on the bikes it could get pretty overloaded.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8_7HoWfrmE

Did you have any difficulty between Potato Bottom and Hardscrabble?

I will be there next year with trailer!

 

[FJRanger]

I was wondering the same thing, switch backs tell us about the switch back

Did you have any difficulty between Potato Bottom and Hardscrabble?

I will be there next year with trailer!

 

[JCMatthews]

None what so ever. I just took it slow and easy. My Jeep had a great turning radius and that made the tight turn on Hard Scrabble easier. On one trip a friend towed it up Hard Scrabble behind his four dour F250 and had no trouble negotiating the turn.

 

[DRYVEM]

Thanks for the input. Off to research which campsites are best and check availability!:camping::exclaim:

Barbara

 

[owlxxx]

Awesome!!! I hope to this in 2013.

 

[adventureduo]

Glad to hear you're just as excited as we were when we first heard about the area.

I would take a trailer, however... i wouldn't make it my first trip towing. I'd make sure you had experience first. It wasn't that it was that hard, but you'd need to know how how to make corrective measures when running into problems, like hairpin corners, 3 point turns and tight rock outcroppings. Like i said, the only reason i didn't take our trailer is because we wanted to have another vehicle experience the journey. We've been on much more technical sections of trails before.