5th November 2007
The Maze
After my late start the other morning to this area I got on the road a bit earlier today, especially as the clocks had changed so
it would be dark an hour earlier. Rather than unloading outside the park this time I drove in and found a parking place at Frenchman's cabin, that eliminated
some of the less interesting sand road but it did mean driving the truck over some rough rocky road with the CRF in the back. In case
you are wondering the CRF is street legal so is allowed to be ridden in the park.
It was still 11:30 before I mounted the bike, it is about 130 miles from my house to Frenchman's Cabin.
No messing about with viewpoints today, straight off to find the Flint Trail.
There are 3 pages in this story - links at the bottom
- page 1 - Flint Trail
- page 2 - The Maze
- page 3 - North Horse Canyon
- page 3 - Route map and link to Google Earth file
The Flint Trail, this is the view from the overlook, the steep part of the trail is on the right side in the shadows and continues out into the valley.
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Halfway down the trail, it has come from the left of the picture, zig-zagged around the central buttress and then back to the left. The trail's surface comes in many varieties from solid rock steps to loose rocks to quite deep sand which I really didn't expect to find on a trail this steep. Compared to the zig-zags on the Burr Trail it is twice as steep, half as wide and ten times as rough!
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At the bottom, the viewpoint is just to the right of the central buttress on the cliff top, the trail comes from behind the large bump on the left, across the central buttress and back again then across the tallus in front of it and back again.
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Out on flat land there was quite a lot of petrified wood.
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Of course the flat land tended to end rather abruptly...
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There were several minor descents on the way out to the Maze.
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This panorama is over 10,000 pixels wide, if I made it any smaller it wouldn't be tall enough to see so it doesn't fit well on the page.
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Good thing the brakes work, and it's not a KLR.
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And this panorama was made from 12 full shots in 3 rows, this was my first view of the north arm of Horse Canyon which runs down to the Green River.
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This is another small arm of Horse Canyon.
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This article continues here >> Page 2 (of 3)
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