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Yes, the XV run just wrapped up, but a meeting of the minds last night had an epiphany.  Do the run at the end of the summer in 2016.   Destination:  NORTH RIM!

 

I've got ideas.  Tenetively looking at the week before Labor day to give most of us that one additional day off.   

 

Destinations:

 

Mile 0 of AZ leg of Great Western Trail

Toroweap

Point Sublime

East Rim Trail

FR250

Parasawampitts, Locust, Shoshone Points

Additional points on the east side of the national park

 

This will be mild wheeling, but oh so scenic.  Positioning this at the end of the summer means the possiblilities of monsoons and rain/mud, along with spectacular sunsets.

 

So my question to our regular AZ Run participants - is this something you'd attend?  It's a pretty good drive up there....having the labor day holiday at the end should give most of us a full 10 days off.  Head up Saturday, have a night minus one camp, rendezvous with everyone near Kanab, UT on Sunday, and then camp on the AZ/UT line that night and start mile zero of the AZ trail to kick off the run.   Toroweap on day 2, then head down to the overlooks on Weds-Sat, and come out the east rim road at the end of it all.

 

There is gas available at 3 different places up there so while we'll probably have to carry some fuel, we should be able to space fuel stops so it's not excessive.

 

Looking for feedback.

 

 

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Our dates for Blazer Bash are currently set to September 5-14.  We could potentially just go straight from one event to the other, but we'd have to have somewhere to leave the Silverado and trailer.  Trailering up there could be an option for everyone with tow vehicles (Like andy and Jesse) if we have somewhere to leave our crap.

 

And then I realized I'm dumb... need the camping trailer too.  Please ignore me.

 

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Originally Posted by Desert Rat:
Originally Posted by reddog:

That would be the same week as Blazer Bash so we'd be out most likely.

 

 

Crap.  How far out (+/-) would you need in order for that to work?

 

Ignore what Amber said, dates for 2016 have not been set yet but usually they are the same week as Labor Day.  Unfortunately we won't know for sure when Blazer Bash 2016 is for 10-12 months.

 

I have no idea what I'll be doing in 18 months, but if everything goes as planned I won't have an issue with doing 2 consecutive weeks.  If Amber is still at the job she's at she won't have an issue with that either.

We won't have the detailed trail guide we've had over the past few years because it's not practical for me to get up there and prerun everything.  That said, on the couple weeks I've spent up there in the past, I think between maps and google earth, I can put together some pretty awesome routes.  Most of it will be 2wd fire roads, but then again, we'll be up there during monsoon, so we may see muck, and there are a couple 4wd trails we've done that will also be included.

 

Pretty excited for this.  For those of you who haven't been to the Arizona strip, this will be a real treat.  It's amazing up there.

 

I spent an hour on google earth yesterday starting to lay out routes.   This will be a cool run. 

 

Kanab Sunday,  We'll actually start wheeling on day zero, and for those wanting to go up on day minus one, I have a surprise - Saturday night on Alstrom Point overlooking Lake Powell.

 

Toroweap on Monday, camp monday night

Back down the west side of the plateau on Tuesday, Camp possibly on Locust Point

Weds- FR250 and all the west end points, and go down to Point Sublime.  Camsite TBD.

Thursday head over to the east side of the park and hit a couple of the points over there.

Friday - come back out the east plateau road, do some exploring in that area, camp somewhere near US89A

Saturday - back to Phoenix.

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