What an awesome day to be riding, hiking and geocaching!

[BruteForce]

Took today off and did a ~70 mile trip from 12 Mile Pass, to US6, East toward Eureka, around the Tintic mountains, and attempted to climb Black Canyon.

Got stuck in 2' of snow, had to chop a few trees down, shovel out 1.5' of snow from under my machine, wedge the afore mentioned trees under all my tires and finally extract myself from the mountain. I was stuck up there over 2 hours. I thought I was going to have to hit the "HELP" button on my SPOT.

What an awesome day!

A few photos:

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[CrazyFinn]

You got up there a ways. Sure hope that snow melts by next month when I get there. Of course I'll be in Moab and there will most likely be no snow. :nod:

I may stop in Marysvale though on the way back for one day.

[BruteForce]

You shouldn't have an issue with snow down in Moab. Up here, the higher mountains are still in Winter.

Here's my route for today:

http://utahbruteforce.com/images/forums/tintic/Apr142009.JPG

[Mooseman70]

:lol8: Ah, Jim..... When I saw you log a find on one of my geocaches out there, I just KNEW you were playing hookey on such a beautiful day! :2thumbs: Good for you, man! I wanted to bail on work sooooo badly and go play, but I didn't. Now the crappy weather is back upon us. Oh well. Maybe this coming weekend it'll be nice and 60+ degrees once more.

Great pics! :popcorn:

[BruteForce]

:lol8: Ah, Jim..... When I saw you log a find on one of my geocaches out there, I just KNEW you were playing hookey on such a beautiful day! :2thumbs: Good for you, man! I wanted to bail on work sooooo badly and go play, but I didn't. Now the crappy weather is back upon us. Oh well. Maybe this coming weekend it'll be nice and 60+ degrees once more.

Great pics! :popcorn:

I just had to take a day off. The weather was perfect, the environment was awesome, there was hardly a soul around (except the deer).

Great geocache hide. I don't remember you sneaking off into the trees to place that. Nice camo' job on the ammo-can.

[DiscGo]

Great pics!


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[Mooseman70]

:lol8: Ah, Jim..... When I saw you log a find on one of my geocaches out there, I just KNEW you were playing hookey on such a beautiful day! :2thumbs: Good for you, man! I wanted to bail on work sooooo badly and go play, but I didn't. Now the crappy weather is back upon us. Oh well. Maybe this coming weekend it'll be nice and 60+ degrees once more.

Great pics! :popcorn:

I just had to take a day off. The weather was perfect, the environment was awesome, there was hardly a soul around (except the deer).

Great geocache hide. I don't remember you sneaking off into the trees to place that. Nice camo' job on the ammo-can.

Oh, no doubt! As for me... coulda, shoulda, woulda. Next time, right? :nod:

Yeah, that cache was hidden almost a year ago when we were on the Geocaching/ATV ride you hosted. Glad you didn't see me sneak away to hide it! :lol8:

Thanks for the compliment on the ammo can camo, too. I do all my own work! Gotta love Wal-Mart rattle can paint, and my wifes leftover floral supply. Works out quite nicely!

[accadacca]

You picked a great day! It is awesome having this area right in our backyard. I have been all over these roads. :five: