Its Utah Jim, but not as we know it. Day 3

Utah Day 3 Route — Day 3 – 28May20
Lake Powell, UT to Rimrocker Trail, CO
Trip Time: 10:28 (0911-1958)
Miles: 169
Average Speed: 14mph
Max Elevation: 8602 ft

While not quite as colorful as the previous days, we were still greeted by a wonderful sunrise.

Like the drive in, the drive out was both fun and beautiful.

After airing back up we hit the pavement with only a rough destination in mind and not 100% sure where we would get gas, as we were now off script.

It turns out we had plenty of gas to make it to town of Monticello were we further supported the local economy by grabbing some pizza from a local pizza joint. Monticello also has a nice little park that Maximus loved playing in. Adjacent to the park was the Monticello library, which happened to be open at this point in the Covid-19 stay at home period. This afforded me the opportunity to go online and download the Rimrocker trail route I had planned on Gaia many months ago for a future trip.

Now with a full tank of gas and a planned route for at least the trail were were planning to take, we hit the road for the second time that day. But this time it was nearly 4 pm and we had a long ways to go to get to the campsite I had in mind.

During this stretch of highway is when we had our first small issue of the trip. The clip on our Trasharoo broke and it started to slide down the front box of the trailer. One strap was still holding it and the triangle shaped trailer tongue was supporting, but I decided to just take it off the trailer and throw it in the back of the Gladiator.

The west half of the Rimrocker trail is the more technical and rocky portion of the trial. There were a couple of narrow shelf road sections and one very tight switchback that requited a multi point turn with the trailer. This really made for slow going and we started to neglect taking photos. Jessica did manage to take some “Jeep Hood Shots” as we made our way along.

What’s a few trail pin stripes on the new truck and trailer anyways?

Mooo-ver cow! — Why is it when you are racing the sun to get to your campsite, there is always a cow in the way?

With the light failing us and still a good ways away from where I wanted to camp, we decide it was better to just pull over in a decent spot we found along the trial. With the new truck and trailer, I did not want to push into the night not knowing what the trail ahead was really like.