YELLAHEEP
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Sounds like there's quite a bit of interest in putting together a Chapter Moab run so let's do the discussion in this thread. :thumbup:
Discussions to this point have targeted late April to sometime in May. I'm leaning toward the 2nd/3rd week of May as things get a bit drier, and the weather isn't too hot.
I've put out some feelers to our Utard friends soliciting their input as to when is the best time to come out.
Jeff (XJEEPER) PM'd me the following:
"May weather is great, mid 80's low 90's maybe and you get the bonus of wildflowers in bloom too.
Last weekend of April is always the Rod Benders Run car show in Moab, so that's been fun to attend on Sat morning."
So, you know that if the street rod guys are doing shows in late April, the weather must be good right?
Ryan (Dr. Moab) PM'd me his input as well:
"I agree with everything Jeff said with a couple more points. The first is just my opinion. Take it for what it cost you. I would stay far far away from the car show weekend. It was fun the first couple of years we did it but it's turned into a joke. Last year they had more people show up that weekend than they had over EJS. It's busy, the cops are all in bad moods and it's hard to find lodging.
Second point. May is good also because most of the cotton has blown away off the cottonwoods. Late April can be horrible for anyone staying at slickrock."
I don't imagine we'd need to try to do an entire week unless most of you would like to, but I figured a Thurs-Sun or a Fri-Mon long weekend thing would be a good place to start.
I've put up a poll to see where you all think your time off would work best.
Discussions to this point have targeted late April to sometime in May. I'm leaning toward the 2nd/3rd week of May as things get a bit drier, and the weather isn't too hot.
I've put out some feelers to our Utard friends soliciting their input as to when is the best time to come out.
Jeff (XJEEPER) PM'd me the following:
"May weather is great, mid 80's low 90's maybe and you get the bonus of wildflowers in bloom too.
Last weekend of April is always the Rod Benders Run car show in Moab, so that's been fun to attend on Sat morning."
So, you know that if the street rod guys are doing shows in late April, the weather must be good right?
Ryan (Dr. Moab) PM'd me his input as well:
"I agree with everything Jeff said with a couple more points. The first is just my opinion. Take it for what it cost you. I would stay far far away from the car show weekend. It was fun the first couple of years we did it but it's turned into a joke. Last year they had more people show up that weekend than they had over EJS. It's busy, the cops are all in bad moods and it's hard to find lodging.
Second point. May is good also because most of the cotton has blown away off the cottonwoods. Late April can be horrible for anyone staying at slickrock."
I don't imagine we'd need to try to do an entire week unless most of you would like to, but I figured a Thurs-Sun or a Fri-Mon long weekend thing would be a good place to start.
I've put up a poll to see where you all think your time off would work best.
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usually has a get together the car show weekend as the trails are usually emptied from EJS by then. We are definitely looking forward to Moab again, We think we might even make a quick trip Halloween!
