White Rim Trail
Part 3
Impression Series
Gooseberry to White Crack
Day 2
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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.
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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, I stopped monmentary, to ask him if he had enough water. Our group camp upon the White Crack turn off 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.
My personal thanks to Bryan & Susan Lavender and Kevin & Linda MacAfee, John & Vickie for the permission to use some of their photos and their thoughts during our time on the WRT.
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