Its at this point that I feel I should let you into a bit of a secret… We keep praising Charlie Camel for making it along these AWWWWESOME trails, but in actual fact there is a lot of driver skill too! No, seriously, I know you all think I’m a throttle happy V8 lover, but in actual fact, I can drive a diseasel too ya know ;-)
Anyway, we made it over the last mile of the trail which turned out to be more on par with a difficult trail and finally reached “The Top of the World”. It was well worth it! We were at about 6500ft, with an 800ft drop right in front of us. Jen, being a little shy of anything exceeding 10ft, decided that she was going to enjoy the view from a safe distance while I did the Can-Can right on the edge. Oh, and then we parked Charlie on an overhanging ledge :-) Again Jen squeaked!
But the view was amazing. The ledge that we ended up on was right behind Fisher Towers where we camped the previous night.
On the way back down, despite being battered and bruised from yesterday’s rock-eating hilarity, Jen decided to bike the trail back down to the bottom. Gotta give her credit, she didn’t smash all her teeth out this time and was actually a lot quicker than the lardy camel back down to the bottom.
We finished the day off by checking into the Canyonlands Campground again, on Main St so that we could abuse the showers again, and so that I could finally shave off the forest that has appeared around my chops. Several blunt razors later we went for a bite to eat and a few glasses of wine at Eddie McStiffs (great name…. restaurant is for sale if anyone wants to move out here!!)
Having spent the last few days having so much fun, we have decided that we need to visit a National Park again so that we can be told we can’t ride our bikes and that any walking we may want to do will involve several months back country hiking with a very high chance of premature death! So we are going to head out to Arches National Park and if we make it out without dehydration or hyperthermia, we intend to visit Canyonlands too. Don’t worry folks, we’ll be taking a few “High Energy” nutty bars with us and at least 2 litres of water each :-)
2 comments:
Dont go leaping off the cliff tops. If its 800' down, you dont have to find out if it actually is, you know. Like the explanation of how to go flying over the handlebars. It's hard enough for me to get on the saddle these days.
Have more fun. Oh did you find out what the big green circles are?
Just checked out Hell's Revenge on Google Earth. OOOOH. see what you mean. What spectacular scenery.
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