Moab, Utah

Gooney Bird

Bighorn sheep

Lunch with a view

Dinner at Zax's

Going through the Wedgie

Watchout for that big hole

Mike, Jim and Dave on top of Little Arch

Going down the Wedgie

A bigger drop off than we expected

What a view

Monitor and Merrimac Buttes

Uranium Arch

Crossing the Silver Crack

Dave making his way back into the Jeep

Checking out Rock Chucker

Looking at Widow Maker

Happy Hour

Crossing the Golden Crack

Look like anyone you know?

Jax Trax

Hole N" The Rock is a roadside attraction centered around a home carved out of a sandstone cliff. The Christensen family created a homestead on 80 acres Albert and his brother Leo Christensen hollowed out a cave in a sandstone cliff to provide shade and rough lodgings for cowboys pushing cattle through the area. In 1940 Albert began hand drilling and blasting to create a home for his family, working on the site for twelve years. The Christensen family moved into the home in 1952 and the site was opened to public tours after Albert's death in 1957. The adjacent Hole N" The Rock diner was opened in 1945 and operated until 1955.  The home, 5,000 square feet, contains fourteen rooms supported by large pillars. The home includes shelving carved out of the walls and a fireplace with a 65-foot chimney drilled into the sandstone. A large concrete bathtub is also built into the rock.

In 2009, a local man discovered the Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite while driving his Jeep, leading to the site becoming one of the world's largest known collections of Early Cretaceous dinosaur tracks. The discovery revealed over 200 fossilized footprints from at least seven different creatures, including sauropods, ankylosaurs, and ornithopods. Following the discovery, researchers carefully cleaned and documented the tracks, which are now protected by the Bureau of Land Management and accessible to the public via a boardwalk.

Grenadier road jam

Home of Truth

This abandoned utopian colony was once a home of Marie Ogden, a wealthy widow from New Jersey who gathered followers on this property with her prophecies of the coming apocalypse.  The Home of Truth started in 1933 with an initial population of 22 people and grew to around 100 at its peak.

After neighboring communities caught wind of the strange rituals happening at the Home of Truth, the colony began to decline and Ogden's followers departed in disgrace.  Today, the site is private property.

Heading out Davis Canyon

A windy day

Hiking from here

Five Faces

Sharpening stone

Dave went up to check it out