Exploring the back roads around Moab, UT: Hurrah Pass and Poison Spider Mesa in mid-May, 2016

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You can see the La Sal Mountains to the east of Moab from almost everywhere. I'll be riding through the passes up there in a couple of days.
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Day 2 in Moab is a planned ride on the Poison Spider Mesa trail. It was all sand and rock. Here's a sandy section.
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It was too rocky for me to ride, so I left my bike (a bit to the left and below the center of the photo) and hiked a bit.
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You can tell the trail by the black marks left by the jeep tires on the rocks.
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There are those La Sal Moutains again, with a ridge of fins between me and them.
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The 'road' continues...
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...Scrapes left on the rocks by jeeps with insufficient clearance.
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There are lots of scrapes here!
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This is worse than a scrape - a continuous line of drips of some liquid. The only fluid I can think of that a jeep wouldn't seriously miss after a little while is windshield washer fluid!
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A zoomed-in look at the La Sal Mtns and fins.
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This is the hill where I decided to park the bike and walk
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Despite the condition of the road on Poison Spider Mesa, the views were spectacular!
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A sign at the parking area for Poison Spider Mesa
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The view shown on the sign about dinosaur tracks
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The rock slab with dinosaur tracks. Dinosaurs died off 65 million years ago, so that rock has been there a long time!
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As I was about to leave, a couple of jeeps headed up the Poison Spider Mesa road. They told me they've been there lots of times.
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On the way back to Moab, the road passes this cliff with pictographs. They're a bit hard to see here, but if you look closely, you can see some a little below dead center.
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Close-up view of the pictographs
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Close-up view of the pictographs
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Close-up view of the pictographs
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Close-up view of the pictographs
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I haven't quite got the hang of aiming my camera at signs :-(


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