White Rim Trail

Part 3

Impression Series

Gooseberry to White Crack

Day 2 

Gooseberry campsite

Nov. 29, 2022

After awhile it was time to go, we still had to make Murphy's Hogback before the days end.

White Rim Trail snakes around finger like deep basins such as the one our troop would be skirting near the Monument Basin. While the trail skirts near the cliffs edge, unseen to many travelers is that the underside cut back maybe beyond the very trail they're on.

There would be several challenging areas for our group to conquer before we get to our lunch

at the White Crack turn off.

In the photo above, the Lavenders are navigating around one such obstacle as we all did.

Further down the WRT we came head on with another off roader and was getting more bad 

news about Hardscrabble area.

The off roader that Kevin had talked to informed us that rigs our size most likely wouldn't get pasted a 

section near Fort Nelson ruins, the trail was that torn up! We were only a few more miles from the 

White Crack campsite turn off. 

The iconic White Rim Trail is known for being one of the top bicycling trails in the United States if 

not the world. We've seen several bicyclist during our WRT journey, this can be a chalice of a life

for those who tackle this trail this way.

The White Crack campsite was only a few more miles ahead as we passed by a hardie bicyclist,

stopping monmentary, to ask him if he had enough water. Our group camp upon the White Crack 

quick enough.

WE would have lunch here

At this stop, Kevin brought up about his fuel consumption on his rig, it was using more fuel than 

expected. We as a group would have to make a decision about going beyond Murphy's hogback. 

That answer to that question will be answered once at Murphy's Hogback. Meanwhile from 

here there are several more climbs and switchbacks to tackle to reach the base of the Murphy's

Hogback climb.