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Sand Hollow, May 2015

XJ_ranger

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Port Orchard, WA
Located in the St. George / Hurricane / Washington area in the state of Utah, this is hands down the coolest hard core rock crawling I've ever done.
A bunch of Canadian rock crawler guys I've competed with have an annual Moab trip in May, and decided for their 10th year, to try a new location.
I invited myself, and it worked out super well.
Now, onto the pics...
Day 1 we went and did some wheeling on some private land.

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Cacti were in full bloom -
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Days 2 through 4 were spent in Sand Hollow, a Utah state park. The best $10/day I've ever spent. Clean public bathrooms, gravel staging area, lake/reservoir access, friendly staff, and no one stole any of the $$$ tools and spare parts I had in the bed of my truck. The land is specifically designated for recreation. Within the park, if you can drive your ______________ there, its legal to drive your ____________ there. They rented pontoon boats, jet skis, ski boats, quads, sand rails, side by sides, and even had a snack shack.
We saw folks riding horses, folks out taking pictures of the plants / sand dunes, and everyone was respectful to everyone else.
Oh, and it has some of the most bitchin terrain I've ever driven.
Day 2 -
Trail called 'Nasty Half'
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Day 2 -
Trail called 'Joint Effort'
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Poseur Shot!
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Day 3,
Trail called 'Arrowhead'
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Trail called 'Chain Reaction' followed by a trail called 'Smurfette'. I didn't take very many photos on those trails apparently.
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Day 4 -
Went looking for some trails, and kinda drove on stuff that it looked like no one had ever driven. But that is part of what made this trip so cool.
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We ran part of a trail called 'Milt's Mile' later on that day, but then got off that.
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Once getting off that trail, we found this cool deal, and drove it, then picked our own path back to the trucks.
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That cool deal is called the chute. It's technically after upper chain reaction. We usually do that then afterwords run down smurfette trail. There's a bunch of awesome trails there. I love that place, I try to spend as Mich time as I can there. Now you've motivated me to get the crawler up and going again.....thanks!
 
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