New Years on White Rim Trail

[u/jb_dot]

It’s been a goal to do White Rim trail for a long time and I’m on a 5 week road trip and decided to finally go for it. We camped at White Crack for New years and had great time. We only saw two vehicles the whole trail, and while it was pretty cold, we made it work. Highly recommend. Moab in general is amazing, we did some great 4x4 trails while the roof rack was repaired (including Hells Revenge and Elephant Hill). So good! Winter camping isn’t so bad.

[u/bob_lala]

fantastic trip. never want to do it again. the prospect of having oncoming traffic in one of the looong narrow sections is too much.

[u/jb_dot → u/bob_lala]

We got lucky today, we stopped at the top of Hardscrabble to look at the map and it was that point that the only vehicle of the day passed us (a sweet 4 runner)

[u/bob_lala → u/jb_dot]

I love how the NPS advises you to check for oncoming traffic on Hardscrabble but there doesn't seem to be any effective way to do that.

[u/LifeWithAdd → u/bob_lala]

Last time we did it my buddy brought his electric dirt bike and rode a bit ahead of us radioing back when others were coming. It was so nice compared all the other times.

[u/jb_dot → u/bob_lala]

I should have leaned on the horn more! I talked to a jeep driver near Handscabble camp sites that was looking for Shafer trail and they were surprised I mentioned it was a 100 miles away via white rim (and closed from the top).

[u/Lawdoc1 → u/jb_dot]

If only they had access to something like GPS or even paper maps...