The view from the campground is awesome to say the least. Behind you there is the butte which is on the property and
great for climbing and driving R/C trucks on. The rest of the view is taken up by the massive expanse of Canyonlands.
Sunsets on
the property are really something special. The rocks of the Outpost's butte turn an orange/red/brown color that sets
off beautifully against the deep blue sky that you can only get in the wide expanse of the wild west.
We left about 2:00AM to drive the 7.5 hours to the campground in order to have a full day ahead of us. Almost like
clockwork we got to the campground at 9:30AM. Rather than fart around in the park for a couple of hours until
check-in time we wandered in to talk to Tracey and Gary to see if our reserved site was open (same one we had the last
two years). She thought it was but when we got there it turned out that a guy and his two children were still there
(they were doing a day-to-day thing). Since it was taken, Tracey told us to take the small group site all to ourselves
for the time we were going to be there. Man was that awesome!!!!
The small group site consisted of about half a dozen sites situated around a central area that was ideal for R/C geeks
like us. We had a 320 foot long "driveway" that consisted of some loose gravelly parts and some really sandy parts.
The drive led up to a wide open area with lots of sand and soft spots. This is where we setup the ramp (we decided to
bring it along on this trip since we had the trailer on which to carry it). Regardless of what kind of motor you are
running you have plenty of room to get up to top speed. Behind the campsites lies the butte.
Special Ed had the
opposite experience. Nothing broke and all trucks ran great. We spent the whole first day putzing around the campsite
and climbing around on the butte. For the sand and rock we found that the Pro-Line Gladiator II tires worked quite
well. We would have run Sand Paws or Paddles but there was so much of a mix of terrain that those kinds of tires would
have been useless a lot of the time. For the butte Special Ed ran with Losi Taper Pins (Red) on the rear and 8-rib (Red)
on the front. These grabbed onto the slickrock like crazy and really offered great traction. The pink compound would
probably have been better but we didn't have any with us.
On day #2 we took a backcountry trail into Davis and Lavender Canyons. This trail offered a killer perspective on the
Six-shooter Peaks you can't get from the highway going by. Most of the time was spent 4-wheeling in the "blue thing"
but we did manage to spend a short bit of time R/Cing on part of the trail where there was a wide expanse of sandy
ground. What a hoot that was. It's awesome to be in the midst of all of that beauty and have not a single soul in
sight to impact your fun. On the first half of the trip into the canyon we ran into a herd of cattle grazing freely
right next to, and on, the trail (see picture below). We had to stop in order to allow this huge bull to get out of our
way. We opted not to take a picture of him in case it made him mad and caused him to charge the "blue thing" we were
driving. He was impressive though...nards the size of basketballs!!! We headed back to the campground later in the afternoon and settled in for an entertaining
evening of beer and bashing.
Day #4 was Moab day. We wanted to go check out Lion's Back (you know the place from video on TV showing a woman
driving her SUV off the side of the thing on the way down). We were hoping to catch people running up and down it but
for some reason it was closed the day we were there. No worries, we just headed into Sand Flats Recreation Area which
was right around the corner (literally). We drove through the Rec. Area scouting spots to bash on. On our way back
through we drove through several camping areas but none seemed right. We headed on and eventually ended up at one of
the entrances to Fins & Things, a serious 4x4 trail. We didn't go down the trail, we pulled in and stopped at the
trailhead.
This was a nice wide open area that was pretty much nothing but a flattish mound of slickrock. We spent
about an hour bashing around this place before heading on. The slickrock looked calm enough but it wasn't exactly
that way. The rock was littered with little potholes and bumps. It made for diffulty in controlling the trucks but it
was definitely fun. At times you would hit a bump and most of your wheels would come up causing you to have to drive
on one or two wheels (Dageek did an awesome rear wheelie - front tires on the ground - for about four seconds but it
seems to have disappeared from the vidz we took. We headed back to the campground for our last evening of bashing.
| Additional Pictures | |||
 Jumping Devo in camp |
 The '07 Family Photo |
 Dageek's Boys at Sand Flats |
 View from campsite |
 Ripper after a zesty session |
 The trail cows |
 Special Ed's boys at the end of day #3 |
 Evil Ed |
| HOMEPAGE | TRIP REPORTS |