Trip to Utah

[Turbocity Tom]

Hi,

Just finish a 2000 mile, 6 day ride with my son and one of his friends. We are all on DR650’s This was their first long distance/ multi day motorcycle trip. We were all equipped to camp everyday.



Day 1
Left from Corona, CA at 7:00am headed to St George. Straight up the 15. 325 miles
The DR’s are set up well and had no problem at a true 70 MPH. Very windy most of the day.

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o199/turbocity_tom/utah2010a6.jpg

Day 2
Left St George, went to Toweep and back to Kodacrome basin. This was the best day of riding. Both Ray and myself ended up in the dirt at different times.
Lot’s of dirt time and the weather was good, not quite as windy. Camped at Kodacrome basin. Great camp ground.

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o199/turbocity_tom/utah2010a4.jpg

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Day3
Woke up to light snow flurries, windy. Packed up and headed out Cottonwood canyon rd.

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o199/turbocity_tom/utah2010a8.jpg

Met up with these guy’s about 28 miles outside Page, AZ- they are REALLY screwed. Not much we could do for them.

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o199/turbocity_tom/utah2010a9.jpg

Got to Page, AZ, let the rangers know about the stranded guys and headed on. The weather was really bad by then and we decided to loop around to Monument Valley.
Ended up at Monticello, UT for the night.

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o199/turbocity_tom/utah2010a3.jpg

Day 4
Went over to Canyonland NP (paid $5.00 a gallon and a store outside the park entrance- it’s about 65miles in to the park from the nearest gas). Continued up to Moab and stayed the night.

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Day5
Left from Moab, out thru Arches NP, and on to hwy 24 Thru Capitol Reef NP to Hwy 12 and Torrey
The weather was turning very bad so sent the night there.

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o199/turbocity_tom/utah2010a1.jpg

Day 6
Left Torrey and over the pass. About 1.5 of new snow on to Boulder and the Burr Trail. When about 25 miles down the Burr Trail and turned around headed back to Bryce Canyon. While in Bryce it began to snow really hard.

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o199/turbocity_tom/utah2010a10.jpg

Left there and continued to Zion NP. Rode thru the park and continued to Mesquite for the night. Long day of riding and the weather was the worst. As we went thru Zion, the temperature began to climb. It was actually very warm by the time we got to Mesquite.


Day 7
Headed home. Very pleasant ride. Left 6:00 am to beat the heat.

We did not camp as much as I wanted to. The weather didn’t cooperate much and I caught a bad cold the 3rd day. The boys did an exceptional job on this ride. It was an adventure for sure.

Looking forward to doing some additional adventure touring soon.


Thanks Tom

[Black and Blue]

Thanks for sharing.P^ Sorry about your cold, but cool pics.

[motomac]

Nice write up Tom. Was 191 in Monticello still tore up?

[Trailace]

Looked cool to me thanks for sharing. :D

[Turbocity Tom]

Nice write up Tom. Was 191 in Monticello still tore up?


They were working on it, but not much delay. Traffic was very light for most of the trip. (except in Moab) That was just crazy......


Thanks Tom

[Ironheadziggy76]

Looks like a great trip, great pics too! P^

[VFR]

Great trip route & nice pictures, Tom. Lots of good areas for riding in out there & looks like you hit most of them. The weather was a bit edgy but will be the opposite when I go through there. I always wanted to camp at that campground in Torrey at the 12 & 24.