Date:         Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:07:53 -0700
Reply-To:     Richard A Jones <jones@COLORADO.EDU>
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From:         Richard A Jones <jones@COLORADO.EDU>
Subject:      trip report & pix--Beef Basin, Utah
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Last week, the Syncro Bros met in Moab and headed to Beef Basin--
a remote area S of the Needles District of Canyonlands Nat'l Park.
Big parks, buttes, mesas, Anasazi ruins everywhere, nobody else.

I tried last November with Leon Korkin to get there, but there was
snow covering mud on the roads in the high country of the Abajos.
This year we had dry roads, except for some shady places up high
which were frozen.  Five days of perfect weather:  ~60 degree
daytime highs, 35-40 degree night lows, cloudless, sunny; crystal
clear air.  Plenty of pinyon pine for campfires.  We hit THE week!

From pavement to pavement, we probably drove 150 miles.  Burgers
at Milt's in Moab and the Patio Drive-in in Blanding to bookend
the trip.  What more could anyone ask???

http://tinyurl.com/2crj674

or the top link at http://jones.colorado.edu
This is a combination of photos by Bob and me.  If my van is in the
pix, Bob took it; if it's his van, I took it.  ;-)

This is perfect Syncro country.  2wd could do lots of it, but
there are places of sand, and also SAND, that would grab a 2wd.
With a Syncro, you just keep going....  Oh, no, Bob--we forgot to
air down!

Richard