good-times-rollin: Rock Chunker

Saturday, June 6, 2015

A Little Work and A Lot of Fun

Portal RV Resort
Moab, UT
May 30, 2015

Last Saturday (Dang, time flies!), it was clean-up day on the section of Highway 191 North adopted by Moab's Friends 4-Wheelin'. Dee, Joe, Dave, Richie, & I were responsible for the east side between mile markers 132 & 133.

After the trash was collected, bagged, tied and stacked, it was fun time. I was really excited because the trail for the day was Metal Masher. The name sounds threatening, but we were assured that all the extreme obstacles like Rock Chucker and Widow Maker had go-arounds. We had 3 buggies in our group built for obstacles like these and drivers ready and able to drive them. What a show !

This vertical wall is so tame it didn't even have a name...Pearl took the go-around!

Dee and Nancy eased the approach by restacking logs, limbs, & rocks scrambled by the previous buggy's climb.

That is Jeff climbing Rock Chucker. He built his own buggy.

And Glen made it up on the first try. What a fine looking buggy and he stretched it himself in his home garage.

Metal Masher, without the extreme obstacles, is a difficult and fun trail to do. It is on the north side of town, measures 12 miles and takes 4 to 5 hours.