Old Wards Canyon 6/5/10

Last Saturday the 5th of June I meet up with a few member of the Wasatch Cruisers and a member from the Utah-TTORA Chapter to Old Wards Canyon Road. The plan was to leave the meeting spot around 830 am to head up to the parking area at the 'B' with the hope that we'd miss the crowd. Since this is a popular ATV and Dirt Bike trail as well. Unfortunately, for this trip my 4runner was out of service (well kind of)with a bump steering rack. So I ended up hitching a ride with one of the people that came along.

The route would take us up Old Wards Canyon Road and then up to the top of Skyline Drive to the snow line and then back OWCR. The driver of the newer Landcruiser was more or less his first run out with his cruiser and did an excellent job navigating though the trail.

Overall, the trip was great. The weather couldn't have been better even when we reached the snow line at the top of the road. Well, that is until the wind blew.

This was definitly, a great way to spend a Saturday morning.

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Nearing the top/snowline:

Transcontinental Railroad Exploration 5-15-10

So on the 15th of May I meet up with a small group of cruisers from the Wasatch Cruisers to run a portion of the old Central Pacific Railroad, stopping at the [URL="http://ludb.clui.org/ex/i/UT3126/"]Sun Tunnels[/URL], the township sites of Terrace and Kelton and then making our way to the [URL="http://www.diaart.org/sites/main/spiraljetty"]Spiral Jetty[/URL].

The trip took us from Wendover, Nevada to just north of Brigham City, Utah covering approximately 170 miles of dirt roads.

Well, enough of the rambling on to the photo's:

Headin on out to the Sun Tunnels:







Sun Tunnels







Headin out to Terrace along the Old Central Pacific Railroad




It's surprising that after all these years the route is still straight.






Terrace or what's left of it










Terrace Cemetary




Headin out to Kelton






Kelton Cemetary


Some of the old graves






Headin on out to the Spiral Jetty









The Spiral Jetty












The trip overall was mostly uneventually up until the time we were leaving the Jetty. The yellow/green FJ posted a few photo's back up decided to throw a fit and sending the fan into the radiator. Needless to say it had to be towed about 30 (about half dirt road, half paved) miles to the nearest town until the owner could come back and get it with a trailer.

The part of that trip that scared us the most was descending a hill with the vehicle in tow. Kind of a little pucker factor to it. :Wow1::Wow1:

Besides that the trip was great and everyone had a good time.

Farmington Canyon 5-9-10

Decided to run up Farmington Canyon today to see what the road conditions were. The main road up is in great shape and you don't hit snow line until your about 3/4 of the way up to the junction of Francis Peak and Skyline Drive.

However, both roads are still closed. Skyline still has about a good 2-3' of snow on it. Francis Peak is clear as far as the eye can see but probable still snow packed towards the top.

Despite the roads being closed it wasn't a total waste of time (kind of fiqured as much)the melting snow made for some great water shots. That and I ended up filling up a Walmart bag full of nails and spent casings.

















The condition of Skyline Drive. My guess is there is probable still a good 2-3' of some in this area, probable more up top.






Meet a this little fella along the way.