White Rim Trail coming up! (happy face)
We're getting ready to do the White Rim Trail in Canyonlands NP in the next few weeks. :) I am really appreciating all the trip reports of the people who have traveled this path before me. The pic...
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Bert,
It is a special place. You are going at a great time of year. Not too wet. Not too cold. Not too hot. Not too many people on bicycles.
My first trip around the White Rim was in a topless 1966 Land Cruiser in June of 1970. Oh, what a hot one it was. There is one hill after the mesa that had a very steep grade on the N. side; so steep it had a winch loop anchor point at the top drilled into a rock. We camped in the middle somewhere and it was so hot we just lay on the ground, not unlike our Piute ancestors.
Last time we were there in September 2010 (40 yrs. later?) the grade was leveled out some and the winch loop was gone. Such is progress. Let's hope the last little bottom land part of the trail is not under water. That scuttled out attempt to complete the Rim in 2010, but going back out the way we came had the effect of two different trails.
jefe
It is a special place. You are going at a great time of year. Not too wet. Not too cold. Not too hot. Not too many people on bicycles.
My first trip around the White Rim was in a topless 1966 Land Cruiser in June of 1970. Oh, what a hot one it was. There is one hill after the mesa that had a very steep grade on the N. side; so steep it had a winch loop anchor point at the top drilled into a rock. We camped in the middle somewhere and it was so hot we just lay on the ground, not unlike our Piute ancestors.
Last time we were there in September 2010 (40 yrs. later?) the grade was leveled out some and the winch loop was gone. Such is progress. Let's hope the last little bottom land part of the trail is not under water. That scuttled out attempt to complete the Rim in 2010, but going back out the way we came had the effect of two different trails.
jefe
