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This was the main reason for my Moab trip. I've been wanting to drive this trail for years. Unfortunately, I couldn't drive the entire trail due to a huge washout that happened a few weeks before my trip. The NPS web site shows photos of house-sized boulders that crashed down upon the switchbacks at Mineral Bottom. I left Moab before sunrise and that gave me some nice long shadows by the time I reached some scenic parts. Below is the Colorado River. This is an easy shelf section. It'd be scary if the road was wet and slippery. The trail alternates between mild dirt road with embedded rocks and very rugged road almost entirely of embedded rocks. The later sections were rough enough that I had to drive very slowly (slower than walking speed). I'm sure a lifted Jeep could drive faster on those sections. My Land Rover's suspension isn't as pleasant over very rugged terrain, so I have to go slow. Specifically: the suspension is soft, so therefore it bounces a lot when driving over boulders, and so I hit and scrape more boulders that way. On the flip-side, highway driving is very smooth. 2 in Massey's book (rated 4). I actually got bored on this trail. While knowing that each mile offered great views, they were all almost the same view. So I wasn't sad to turn around and head back.
According to the website author (Ann Jones), this was a lengthy process of recording the website on a floppy disk and posting it to the USA. It would then be copied onto the site - a few updates got lost, misdated but the concept of live internet updates was on the edge of the internet. I was intrigued by the sites ability to keep relatively updated and so began the process of documenting my first overland trip in a 1968 Series II Land Rover. See 鈥楾o Africa and beyond鈥?for the website. Over the next few years, I started collecting and receiving links from other overlanders. In September 2000 I launched The Africa Overland Network - a site dedicated to independent overland trips. Primarily privately funded these websites offers diary updates, photos, GPS coordinates and embassy visa information and as internet access has increased video clips. Information on the websites range from single line entries to paragraphs of useful, and sometimes useless information.
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