Places off the beaten path.

[PB]

I'd buy a ticket for that ride.

[mcski]

Is that chick swimming w her magic wand?

[Buster Highmen]

A little green glide close and far away.

[The AD]

Is that chick swimming w her magic wand?

I think it's a Mr. Microphone

[ill-advised strategy]

Near my childhood cabin:



Location: Where the roads get smaller and smaller. Highway becomes road. Road becomes dirt road. Dirt road narrows to wooden 2 track bridge dwindling to sandy swampy 2 track leading to footpath through cranberry bog to the saltless sea.

[riser4]

FKNA.

[muted reborn]

When I lived in Durango, I would often explore the whole Cedar Mesa area and nearby, everything west of Bluff and Blanding, all the way to Lake Powell. It's all amazeballs. A 4wd high clearance vehicle is like the ticket to fantasyland.

That is awesome. I wish I started exploring this area a decade ago. Then again, I didn't have a 4wd high clearance vehicle back but I could still have seen some great stuff without one.

Curious if you recognize the location of my pics then? I'd guess probably so.

[Danno]

That is awesome. I wish I started exploring this area a decade ago. Then again, I didn't have a 4wd high clearance vehicle back but I could still have seen some great stuff without one.

Curious if you recognize the location of my pics then? I'd guess probably so.

Not specifically, but I've explored Fish and Owl and Grand Gulch and Comb Ridge and it all starts to blend together. So many small ruins scattered all over. Then a little further west, near Powell, are some amazing slot canyons that I've stumbled upon that don't require ropes. Probably not as amazing as the "known" places, but to camp next to them, hike around, discover them, explore, with nobody else around, is still pretty special.

I think I could probably piece together a location for that, PM me if that interests you, but probably not for a couple of weeks as I'm going on vacation.

[adrenalated]

Fantastic singletrack in southwestern CO that hadn't seen a tire in weeks before mine.

[Core Shot]

I think it's a Mr. Microphone

Hey good lookin

Be back to pick you up later

[muted reborn]

Not specifically, but I've explored Fish and Owl and Grand Gulch and Comb Ridge and it all starts to blend together. So many small ruins scattered all over. Then a little further west, near Powell, are some amazing slot canyons that I've stumbled upon that don't require ropes. Probably not as amazing as the "known" places, but to camp next to them, hike around, discover them, explore, with nobody else around, is still pretty special.

I think I could probably piece together a location for that, PM me if that interests you, but probably not for a couple of weeks as I'm going on vacation.

I totally agree with the 'nobody around exploring' being special. Almost too remote - a small mistake is a really big deal out there.

[m2711c]

the secrets road.




the secrets views.

[old goat]

First time I visited Delicate Arch it was off the beaten path, as was Arches. Not so much now.

[Name Redacted]

the secrets road.




the secrets views.

You got pounders of Utica Club? Damn! We just started getting 12oz cans of it here and it is officially my summer beer.

[rideit]

First time I visited Delicate Arch it was off the beaten path, as was Arches. Not so much now.

I blame Edward Abbey.
And Rob Story, of course.

[east or bust]

somewhere in NW MT

[Norseman]

quiet side of a big pnw cone

[Lone Star]

in the middle of everything, it can be a party, or you can sit there in silence (except for the birbs) all day. ymmv

[ghosthop]

Montana



California

[Meadow Skipper]

[m2711c]

take a left past the dead skunk and the confluence will be right there…

[muted reborn]

California

But that pic looks like it was taken right on the beaten path.

[LongShortLong]

Don't know how to post pictures any more...
San Antonio Rd north from Mountain View. Start walking when it ends. 5 miles of levee trail through wetlands and bay breeze and bay mud. Views of the great SF Bay, home to 10 million. 12 lanes of 101 commute crawl left behind in minutes.

General comment that in many parks, a few steps leaves the beaten path. I've backpack camped in Arches - middle of nowhere a few hundred yards from the park road. Pretty nice after a day of airports, long drive, crush of humanity at the park entrance. Stars, wildflowers, and sandstone. Don't tell Abbey.

[muted reborn]

General comment that in many parks, a few steps leaves the beaten path. I've backpack camped in Arches - middle of nowhere a few hundred yards from the park road. Pretty nice after a day of airports, long drive, crush of humanity at the park entrance. Stars, wildflowers, and sandstone. Don't tell Abbey.

I think abbey would approve though, no way he'd tolerate the crowds either. And it's not illegal to walk off the trail in Arches anyways.

[BmillsSkier]

in the middle of everything, it can be a party, or you can sit there in silence (except for the birbs) all day. ymmv

There's some outstanding pictures in this thread, but this one is really special. The golf club really ties it all together.




Loving all the swimming hole pics too. Every kid growing up should have one. I did, and it was hidden down a sandstone ravine with multiple pools and falls and no shortage of increasingly risky places to jump from. I'm told it no longer exists thanks to a landslide, which kinda bummed me out.