Moab pics part II

These are our new friends Darren and Lauri from California we met on our Friday trail. We had dinner together Saturday. They were going to head back Sunday but had trouble getting out of town so they headed over that night for beers and s'mores by the campfire. We are going to try and keep in touch and maybe get out to their way to do the Rubicon with them. Thankfully technology (facebook,e-mail, etc) makes that easier so it should be possible! The rest of the pictures are from our Sunday trail - Pritchett. It's the hardest "official" trail down here and I only know of two harder. They won't run those two with the groups. The official group that headed out for this one earlier in the week started with 22 jeeps and only 11 were able to drive back to town. We got lucky (experience doesn't even guarantee you making it out, you need luck as well). Our group had eight jeeps and none of us even sustained body damage. This is the view up Pritchett Canyon.

This guy actually wasn't in our group - he and another guy ended up in the middle of us but this shows a really nice view of the difficulty. This obstacle is rocker knocker. You need to be headed up on the left like he is, but you can't get there unless you start from the right and do a bouncy slidy thing to get over to the left, if you try to start out there you tip over and roll down hill. This isn't a long trail, but it literally one obstacle after another.

This is our group waiting for our turn on rocker knocker. Most of Moab, and especially this trail is a lot of hurry up and wait. But I can't wait to go back.