The only thing that could be more lame than ExPo would be SEMA.
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The only thing that could be more lame than ExPo would be SEMA.
UnfrozenCaveman
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A birdie told me that the Sept rally will be renting the entire Arena facility with room to camp there. I did that a couple of nights recently...the highway noise wasn't the best part, but it was handy 
I don’t know why anyone would want to stay in Moab. We use it as a jump off point and try to get as far away as possible, as quickly as possible. I’ve been going to Moab for 25 years and it’s become a complete zoo with tourists from every part of the globe.
Utah with Kevin Day and his kid brother. View attachment 9945View attachment 9945
Yeah, don't stay in Moab. Use it for supplies, look around a bit, then get out.
If you want to camp near to town, drive to the north end of town, then take the Colorado River to the east. There are several camp grounds and good lodgings along the river. I think there are places to stay the other direction to. I just cant remember what the regulations are out on various trails. You'll see what I mean. But really, you can find places out of town very easily. When we have been in the area, we have done AirBnB for any number of types of places from condos to lodges along the river, to cabins up at 10k feet. But never have stayed in Moab. By the way, get to Arches before sunrise, it's like a mall after 10:00am, but before that, it is a life goal. The other way to do it is to go in after they close. They don't advertise it, but when it closes, it's free because there's no one to take your money. They just leave the gates open all night. Just drive in, go look at the place in the starlight, you won't regret it.
By the way, I get what Uncle Doug is saying, but I also assume Chris didn't mean all ExPo people. More the ExPo mindset. I get what he means. I've avoided the ExPo crowd myself, precisely because it is a crowd, and because I don't like the kitted out thing that everyone is doing these days. Cool rigs, but if you focus on the kit too much... you know? That, and I'm so much of a poser myself that I try to avoid paying money to look like one even more than I already do.
I'm still mourning the loss of some of my favorite spots. Places I managed to get to that were legendary at the time, and I'm glad I got to them before the Indie, professional Instagramer crowd found them. One place in particular was not hard to get to, but it was remote, very unknown, and epic. But the last time I went, I simply turned around and left because there was a tour bus there when I drove up. The place constantly has people at it now, lights, music, ...ugh... The ExPo mindset of EVERYONE needs to have a roof top tent is sucking dry what used to be. I sold my RTT and off road camp trailer years before 90% of these people even knew stuff like that existed.
I've really enjoyed looking at the pics on this thread. Hope I can make stuff like this happen again some day. Not sure what it is that is making it not work, been trying to figure it out. But I used to get out. Just doesn't happen anymore.
If you want to camp near to town, drive to the north end of town, then take the Colorado River to the east. There are several camp grounds and good lodgings along the river. I think there are places to stay the other direction to. I just cant remember what the regulations are out on various trails. You'll see what I mean. But really, you can find places out of town very easily. When we have been in the area, we have done AirBnB for any number of types of places from condos to lodges along the river, to cabins up at 10k feet. But never have stayed in Moab. By the way, get to Arches before sunrise, it's like a mall after 10:00am, but before that, it is a life goal. The other way to do it is to go in after they close. They don't advertise it, but when it closes, it's free because there's no one to take your money. They just leave the gates open all night. Just drive in, go look at the place in the starlight, you won't regret it.
By the way, I get what Uncle Doug is saying, but I also assume Chris didn't mean all ExPo people. More the ExPo mindset. I get what he means. I've avoided the ExPo crowd myself, precisely because it is a crowd, and because I don't like the kitted out thing that everyone is doing these days. Cool rigs, but if you focus on the kit too much... you know? That, and I'm so much of a poser myself that I try to avoid paying money to look like one even more than I already do.
I'm still mourning the loss of some of my favorite spots. Places I managed to get to that were legendary at the time, and I'm glad I got to them before the Indie, professional Instagramer crowd found them. One place in particular was not hard to get to, but it was remote, very unknown, and epic. But the last time I went, I simply turned around and left because there was a tour bus there when I drove up. The place constantly has people at it now, lights, music, ...ugh... The ExPo mindset of EVERYONE needs to have a roof top tent is sucking dry what used to be. I sold my RTT and off road camp trailer years before 90% of these people even knew stuff like that existed.
I've really enjoyed looking at the pics on this thread. Hope I can make stuff like this happen again some day. Not sure what it is that is making it not work, been trying to figure it out. But I used to get out. Just doesn't happen anymore.
Driving up an ephemeral creek bed, en route to a special campsite. If you want to go here, you have to travel lightly. You'll never make it up this canyon with a trailer or RTT. 2012 - with @Jrose609 and @BenLittle
Warming up by the fire in Cedar Mesa. Supermoon 2011. The first-ever "Utah Rovers" trip with @BenLittle
For those wondering, we named this spot "Golf Green Camp" because the grass is so short and soft at this spot that it feels like a golf green. It's a high altitude flat mesa--one of the truly awesome geographical oddities of the Colorado Plateau region--and the dirt is soft and perfect. I believe that this spot was once used by sheepherders or cattlemen but now mostly sees fall use by elk hunters and, of course, us. There's a huge stone fire ring and firewood is easily scavenged. It's definitely one of my top-5 campsites anywhere.
That's a clean-looking truck.
Canyons of Lake Powell, Utah, 2016
Clear a tree blocking the road. Early Spring transit of the Abajo Mountains, heading towards Beef Basin. 2012 with @pmatusov, @BenLittle, @Jrose609, Kevin Day, and some other rock-chuckers.
Waaaaay out in the Basin & Range country of Central Nevada. This is about as far from a major city as you can get in the Lower 48. May 2016 with @Dan kemper @BenLittle @pmatusov
