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Originally posted by Xtoolbox:
Yeah, two days makes more sense to me also. Kind of far to make the journey, run the trail, and then head all the way back to Moab in the same day/night in time for the 7pm raffle/beer bash. Would be rushed with little/no time to explore some of the cool stuff mentioned near-by.

My suggestion is to move the Elephant Hill/Canyonlands run to Sunday 5/21 - Monday 5/22 this way we can still make it back in time for the repair clinic, not rush so much, and see/do more. Also this will break up the back to back Fins and Hells slick rock terrain which are similar anyway if on a different scale.

For the Thursday slot I suggest we run Gold Bar Rim as a group with a option to continue on to parts of Golden Spike for the more modified rigs before heading back down the same way we came. This option should get us back into town at a reasonable daylight hour.

Brian
Brian,

I think we are going to leave the schedule as is. If folks want to stay over night in the Elephant Hill area than fine, but it will not be in the offical event program.
I know you really want to do Gold Spike/Gold Bar Rim. If you and a group of folks want to do this trail than fine, do it instead of Fins. I'll even include the maps from last year, but again it will not be on the offical schedule. I think we can visit this trail for next year, but I have already started putting together the guide book for this year and we should stay with what we have.
I am still waiting to hear if you want to put together an advanced run for the SAS folks. Let me know if you are going to lead this and what trail.

Thanks,

Doug