3-D Trail

Dieter Thoeny, Leader Big Saturday, 4/16

The 3-D Trail tours the vicinity of colorful Hidden Canyon and Bink Spring, northwest of Moab. It visits the canyon bottom and canyon rim, and fi nally, a high overlook of the area (hence the name 3-D). A few of the hills have been known to challenge stock vehicles, but most of the tour is pleasant, scenic, family 4-wheeling. Approximate mileages: 59 total, 28 off highway.

Scenery: This canyon country is unlike the Moab valley with its sheer Windgate Sandstone rimmed cliff s; instead 3-D visits canyons that are a few hundred feet deep in the smooth, red and white layers of the Entrada Sandstone. The slickrock areas are made up of the white layer that caps the Entrada. Vistas are to the north toward the Book Cliff s.

Road Surface: There are some two track dirt sections, a little slickrock, a sandy and maybe wet wash bottom, and some rock/dirt mixtures with a few ledges.

Highlights: Not far from the beginning is “Airport View Hill” where a few stock vehicles with highway tire pressure may have to try more than once. Hidden Canyon bottom is very sandy but is usually not diffi cult. The climb out of the upper canyon fi rst encounters “The Wall”, which looks like a rock wall to the uninitiated, but is usually climbed easily by stock vehicles. Just past this is “Mean Hill”, which climbs about 200 feet in two steep sections. The fi rst section begins with a shelf followed by a loose red dirt hill. The fi nal climb looks worse than it is because it is on a “hogback” with a drop off on both sides.

Ber Knight Memorial Trail

This Trail is part of Junior’s Package Day 1

Thomas & Susie Powell Sunday 4/10 Devon Parson Monday 4/11 Jake & Joyce Jacobson Tuesday 4/12

Bill Wehrli Thursday 4/14

To be used:

Sunday 4/10 Monday 4/11 Tuesday 4/12 Thursday 4/14 and Big Saturday 4/16

Associate Leaders:

Matt Bray, Jesse Jacobson, Jim Kochenderfer, Frenchie Lachance, Dan Lindblad, Jerry McCann, Dan Merriman, Rick Moore, Carl Nesbitt, Allen Olsen, Thomas Powell, George & Sandy Thornock, Donn Voss, Casey Walter, Jeff Wish, James Young.