Kim & Dan's Excellent Adventures: Thanksgiving 2007

The past 2 years we've been fortunate enough to spend Thanksgiving in Moab wheelin' with our friends. This year we left on Thursday, got into town about 6pm, checked into the Super 8, ordered carryout from Denny's and crashed. We got up early on Friday to let the dog out and found a couple inches of wet, sticky snow on the ground and it was still coming down. A little stunned we stood in the parking lot waiting for our friends to wake up trying to decide what we should do. After about an hour or so, we decided to hit up Poison Spider after checking out Potato Salad Hill.

Saturday we decided to hit Fins & Things, luckily the sun was shining and the snow was gone!

After lunch, it was my time to drive.

After that we played on Baby Lions Back and called it a day.

After a good soak in the hot tub we decided to hit the Moab Brewery for some good beers and food. Like always, we had a nice long wait ahead of us but all is good when you have such good beers to drink while waiting!

Sunday we only had 2 Jeeps in our group so we decided to check out Hell's Revenge and go home. This was my first time on Hell's Revenge and I must admit I was a little nervous at first. The beginning of the trail you have to climb a narrow ridge and I get freaked out on those, mostly because we're fully enclosed in the Cherokee and can't see the sides all that well.

It was cool because the trail crosses the Slickrock trail several times....we were driving on the Slickrock trail for 4 wheelers! We checked out the Hot Tub, Dan did the smaller Hot Tub. I can't believe how deep and steep the Hot Tub actually is and without a front locker on the Cherokee we knew we'd never make it.

We then watched a couple guys do the Escalator, we saw 2 get winched up and the 3rd guy winched himself up on his first try but made it his 2nd time up. Can't wait to be able to do that when the project Jeep is complete.

After that, we talked Dan into trying the Tip Over Challenge but he ended up getting winched out. The guy spotting him put him in a really bad position on the rocks and without a front locker it was nearly impossible for him to get up.