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Longest/Farthest Off Road Adventure?

I've done a couple. The Mojave Road is 130 miles across the Mojave National Preserve. I've done that as a 3 day/2 night trip. The other long distance trip was out and around Death Valley NP. That was 290 miles of dirt and 120 miles of pavement. One day was close to 200 miles of dirt. We would have done more dirt but that was the year (January '04)that people were kayaking and canoeing in Badwater.
 
The two that come to mind...

The Pony express trail across the Western desert of Utah. Read about it here...
http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=60074
That one was around 230 miles of dirt.

The other one was out to the Newfoundland Mtns in Western Utah. I think this trip consisted of close to 200 miles of dirt road.
http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=954412&highlight=newfoundland

I have had a dream for several years of mapping out and running from Canada to Mexico on all dirt roads, with the exception of gas stops and such. This is still very much on my "to do" list but I think it would require a good team of several well built jeeps and hardy souls. Anyone interested???
 
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Here's several weekend+ trips in the SE Utah area. It is pretty easy to put together long off road trip in canyon country. :)

http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=948604

http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=947420

http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=947821

http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=949232

http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=949231

http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=947681

Get to planning!

DrMoab said:
I have had a dream for several years of mapping out and running from Canada to Mexico on all dirt roads, with the exception of gas stops and such. This is still very much on my "to do" list but I think it would require a good team of several well built jeeps and hardy souls. Anyone interested???
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How about starting with doing Utah from border to border? :rtm:
 
All of these are great!! I am planning on taking our club. What I was thinking was going to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, then going up to Escalante and running Hole in the Rock. From there we want to head up to Moab for some wheeling there. I am wanting to keep it to a week. Not everyone will go with us to the Grand Canyon and Escalante, so we will meet up with the rest in Moab for a few days. I have two weeks off though so I might make it a longer trip. Planning on Sept. 09
 
Many years ago I travelled alone across the west Utah desert from the Drum Mts (Delta area) to Gold Hill in a Ford pickup. Probably a foolish thing to do. I have never felt more isolated in my life. I remember thinking that if I broke down the next person to come along would see nothing of me but my bleached bones.
 
Rod Knee said:
Many years ago I travelled alone across the west Utah desert from the Drum Mts (Delta area) to Gold Hill in a Ford pickup. Probably a foolish thing to do. I have never felt more isolated in my life. I remember thinking that if I broke down the next person to come along would see nothing of me but my bleached bones.
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Yeah but what neat country...as long as you like sage brush, desolation and fast desert roads.
 
Handlebars said:
Early summer or late summer, 2009. The inspiration is here:

http://www.expeditionexchange.com/forums/showthread.php?p=22606
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We should set a point in the middle of the state...say the San Rafel swell. I will work on mapping out a route north of there and you can work on the South.

Next payday I am putting my first "traverse Utah" coins in the jar.

Sept or Oct would probably be a good time to attempt something like this. It would be cooler in the desert yet you wouldn't have to worry about snow drifts higher up.
 
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DrMoab said:
We should set a point in the middle of the state...say the San Rafel swell. I will work on mapping out a route north of there and you can work on the South.

Next payday I am putting my first "traverse Utah" coins in the jar.

Sept or Oct would probably be a good time to attempt something like this. It would be cooler in the desert yet you wouldn't have to worry about snow drifts higher up.
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Lucky. I could the "traverse Tennesse" route, but it'd take about 3 hours, and it's all interstate. :roll:

Love the link, btw.
 
Fall in Utah... sounds awesome. I'll have to see if i can swing this..

So you guys are thinking the Wasatch Range, San Rafael, and some SE stuff? That'd be alot of ground to cover in 9 days... or did i read it wrong?

Ryan, Alex, have either of you two been to Zion?
 
Man, as a former Utahn, I would love to do something like this trip. Difficult to do as a single parent of a school age boy though, even though he is in high school. I've been on some really cool trails in the NW corner of the state too...Goose Creek and Grouse Creek ranges (job related wheeling).
 
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