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Thread: Moab vanlife advice?
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10-25-2020, 12:00 AM #51
So, we beat everyone down by miles (but we were the first people to Burro Pass). Glorious day, just us.
Advice?
Get up at the butt crack to do anything. Or do speed and stay up all night, your choice.
Thanks for the birthday wishes, B-Bear!
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10-25-2020, 05:58 AM #52Registered User
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10-25-2020, 09:13 AM #53
i think i heard it was estimated that 1000 people rode porc yesterday. The cars parked at the bottom were INSANE.
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10-25-2020, 09:21 AM #54
Work getting in the way and 8-14 day outlook showing above average temps. Warm and dry first week of Nov, so maybe let the weather there now blow out most of the crowds and head down after Halloween.
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10-25-2020, 09:25 AM #55
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10-25-2020, 09:31 AM #56Registered User
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10-25-2020, 11:56 AM #57yelgatgab
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10-25-2020, 02:48 PM #58
I'm aware of what crowded means. Moab is crowded right now. It's been "crowded" every time I've been there in the past 10yrs. I typically don't spend much time in town and camp 30-45m away. On this trip I stayed in the same free, uncrowded camping spots I have been staying at for 5+ yrs (and one new one) and rode the same trails I always ride (Mag 7, Ahab/Jackson) and some new ones (Navajo Rocks, Pipe Dream) without issue (except WE - hate self shuttling that one and didn't want to ride in a COVID shuttle). My experience was largely the same as it has been in past years, aside from the traffic which I was warned about and consequently spent 0 minutes sitting in. I have a more flexible setup than most so YMMV.
Don't ride it on a Friday or a Saturday, and especially not on a Friday or Saturday during a global pandemic in which all outdoor recreation has seen unprecedented levels of participants, and I think you can still have the experience you're after.
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10-26-2020, 08:20 AM #59Registered User
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I saw a bunch of camping vans parked in front of rental condos last night, so maybe everyone isn't leaving like I thought, ha. Moonflower Canyon waterfalls yesterday were jaw dropping, I hope more run in a couple days with warmer weather.
I haven't gone to Arches in decades, with all this snow I'm gonna go right now and hope for the best crowd-wise.
This exactly what thousands of others are thinking and planning to do.
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10-26-2020, 08:42 AM #60
Be at the trail head at dawn or dusk, and you are set. Be at the trail at 10:00, and you'll have lots of other friendly people having fun.
Kind of like Arches or Zion.
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10-26-2020, 08:44 AM #61Registered User
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I went in early March this year and it was perfect. Perfect weather, not many people. Stopped through in late aug/early Sept this year and it was still great. Hot, but not that bad.
anyone here done the seasonal worker vanlife thing in Moab? Was thinking about doing the bike shop thing for a spring or fall, but it seems like housing is impossible and the vanlife in the desert for months would get old.
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10-26-2020, 08:57 AM #62www.dpsskis.com
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Fukt: a very small amount of snow.
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10-26-2020, 09:36 AM #63
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10-26-2020, 09:39 AM #64pura vida
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10-26-2020, 10:07 AM #65
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10-26-2020, 10:19 AM #66
Jet boats will be popular
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10-26-2020, 11:23 AM #67
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10-26-2020, 11:55 AM #68
I did it about 18 years ago. Free camping was still a thing in a lot of spots close to town.
If I was you, I’d look to do this in a different town that isn’t a complete and utter shitshow. Maybe a summer in a Mtn town somewhere? Plenty of seasonal shop jobs and fewer sidebysides.
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10-26-2020, 02:24 PM #69
Guess I'm just gonna have to go find out what super fucking busy in Moab is. Remember, I grew up 1 hour from Philly and 1:20 from NYC. I know what actual "busy" and "traffic" is.
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10-26-2020, 03:47 PM #70www.dpsskis.com
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Fukt: a very small amount of snow.
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10-26-2020, 04:50 PM #71
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10-26-2020, 04:54 PM #72Registered User
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it was closed due to ice and snow, d'oh!
Apparently you don't know what we are talking about at all, what has NYC got to do with camping in Moab? Moab busy is like Yellowstone summer busy. But if you are stuck in traffic for a half hour in Moab, loving every minute of it as you are thinking how worse it would be in NYC, good on you. If you ride the trails where you have to ask every 2-3 minutes to overtake people, and realize, hey, it's not as bad as Philly traffic, great! Personally I go camping to get the fuck away from people, not to share the desert with a thousand like doppelgangers as if I'm in a dispersed Burning Man city. Shit is gross. I also like to sleep in until the sun wakes me, cook breakfast slowly, and hang with friends before riding as the sun warms everything up, not wake up at 6 or 7am and go ride at 8am like it's my job every day, just to strategically avoid shit-shows.
I'll still visit Moab every year and deal with it all, but I'm pretty tired of chippy people here man-splaining on how to do Moab right, it's not a big secret how-to guys.
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10-26-2020, 04:59 PM #73
PREACH!!
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