Re: Utah Cruisers Run: Great Salt Lake Ghost Towns, May 18th 2008
I got the FJ fixed, and back yesterday!
Are we planning on meeting at the Sinclair, Exit 4, beginning of Salt Flats at 9am then? Since we are coming from the South, we will take the belt route and I'm not going to worry about convoying out to Salt Flats (unless we are the only ones on the road )
I have CB and 5 gallon of gas I will bring. Woohoo!!
Re: Utah Cruisers Run: Great Salt Lake Ghost Towns, May 18th 2008
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I use the National Geographic Topo software for Utah to plan most trips. Anyone want me to post up our track, routes, and waypoints. I guess they'd come out in .gpx format which you could import into other gps software as well.
Re: Utah Cruisers Run: Great Salt Lake Ghost Towns, May 18th 2008
those of us leaving SLC where would we like to meet up? Im guessing a meet at 7 am, just need a place I have someone else who may be interested in comming along and ill need to let him know where to meet us. otherwise ill just tell him the sinclair at 9am in wendover
Steve
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Re: Utah Cruisers Run: Great Salt Lake Ghost Towns, May 18th 2008
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ActionJackson previously said:
those of us leaving SLC where would we like to meet up? Im guessing a meet at 7 am, just need a place I have someone else who may be interested in comming along and ill need to let him know where to meet us. otherwise ill just tell him the sinclair at 9am in wendover
Steve
I'm not sure where everyone is in the Valley. Maybe the Sinclair is the right place for all of us. Can you think of one that would be good for everyone?
Re: Utah Cruisers Run: Great Salt Lake Ghost Towns, May 18th 2008
I'm located on the east side (canyon rim) near parleys canyon. It is probably easier to just meet at that sinclair by the speedway exit. I can typically get right on the I80 at 2300 east and head west. No driving through town. I may pack a 5 gal spare just in case, but I find that with these slower 35 -50 mph off road runs through the desert, the FJ actually gets the best mileage (21-22 with the MT6), kinda like it was designed for this...hummmmmm. Besides, we should not have too much trouble getting from the sinclair to corinne/brigham city on one tank.
Re: Utah Cruisers Run: Great Salt Lake Ghost Towns, May 18th 2008
I live in sandy, and will be getting on I-15 on the 7200 exit. I suppose tis not a big deal to all caravan out there on Hwy 80....its already going to be asking alot to have to look at all your ugly mugs during every stop on the trail anyways right?
AJ, give me a call if you want to meet up and caravan with your buddy. There is a Harmons right on 7th East near my house and would make for a good meeting spot as I plan to load up on the goodies for the ice chest there.
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Re: Utah Cruisers Run: Great Salt Lake Ghost Towns, May 18th 2008
Well, I'm pretty sure that if we are all planing on meeting in bendover at the same place in time we will pretty much meet up somewhere on I-80 anyways. Be on the look out for us, we'll be the ones doing 85+ mph and getting around 6 miles to the gallon.
And just a side note, we will not be spending the night at bendover. All the rooms are booked up!
Re: Utah Cruisers Run: Great Salt Lake Ghost Towns, May 18th 2008
OK, This is the route taken from our trip last year, so it's dead on. I included one with just the route and one with way-points included. The first bit was pretty difficult to navigate. Some of it was in the salt marshes and some was overgrown meadowland without a trace of a road. We followed verbal directions from a guidebook that went, go 600 feet to the end of the cattle trough and find a metal grate. Bear left from there to the old culvert and follow to the sheep pen, rounding it and going to the old well. LOL, it was interesting to say the least. With this route now it will be just following the way-points, beep, beep. So much less stress out in the middle of NOWHERE with limited gas. We CAN'T WAIT! This is going to be a real blast with a fun gang. I'm glad Casey is coming again. He's another veteran of last years interesting route finding. Once you hit Lucin the way is easy, mostly .
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