Grand Junction: 21 Road

[IntrepidXJ]

April 29, 2006

Back in 2006 I took a trip to Moab for a week to hit some trails in my Jeep. Back then I was more into rock crawling and had the Jeep to match. On our way to Moab, I stopped for a weekend at a friend's house in Grand Junction (before I moved here) to run a couple of the extreme trails nearby. On Saturday we drove up a trail locally known as 21 Road which travels up Hunter Canyon into the Book Cliffs. It turned out to be a pretty fun trail. I added a bit of body damage to the Jeep, and almost rolled it, but nothing too serious...

The trail starts out easy...

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This is my friend Wally in his old Jeep

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Inside a large alcove

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Almost made it...

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...until I took a bad bounce and almost went off the edge

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Posing :)

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Coming down was another story.....I really thought that I was going over.....I really don't know why it didn't

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On our way back...

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