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Kane Road to Hurrah Pass and Chicken CornersOct 31, 2008
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Colorado River near Kane Road
Interesting property along Kane Road
Kane Road heading toward Hurrah Pass
More spectacular Moab scenery! A reader recently suggested to me that I check out Kane Road to Hurrah Pass, and today I did just that. He suggested that it might be a little more of a challenge to my Ranger, and he was right about that, but it handled it just fine with room to spare. I guess I'll have to find something even more difficult to find out what it can really do.
It's about a 50 mile trip in and back. At first it's paved road, and then very well maintained dirt road, and finally rocky, steep and twisty road. In other words high clearance, low range 4 wheel drive territory. The new tires really seem to make a difference, and they do give me more confidence to explore rougher roads way back in by myself, like I did today.
At Hurrah Pass I met two guys riding off road motorcycles. They are cousins and both of them are 4th generation Moab residents. They've been here all of their lives, and they intend to die here. Makes me want to get me one of those off road motorcycles.
After Hurrah Pass there is a long descent to the Colorado River and Chicken Corners. I turned around there and came back the way I went in. That's fine because you see things from a totally different perspective on the way back.
The rougher the road got today the more fun I was having. I'm getting quite comfortable now with the Ranger's ability to handle these kind of situations, and worse, which makes me more relaxed, and less anxious in the difficult stretches. It got to where I would take the more difficult path if I had a choice.
I went thru the same process on the motorcycle. At first I was anxious and nervous, and then somewhere along the way that went away, and I got into it. It then became a real rush to push it out a little bit. Same thing seems to be happening with the Ranger. I'm not a real serious risk taker, but I do like to stretch things out just a tad.
