You may have
seen a few years ago on TV a woman crashing a Jeep (or Bronco or
something) off a five hundred foot rock formation. That happened on
the Lion's Back in Moab. It's a five hundred foot tall
slickrock formation you can drive up, do a thirty point turn and
drive back down. Something went terribly wrong when that woman did
it. She basically fell off the side and survived. A
little ways up the road from the Lion's Back is the Baby Lion's
Back. It's about seventy-five feet tall. Unlike it's larger
predecessor, you can drive across the top and down the other
side.
Sunday morning before we left we had some time to kill.
We had a luxury 4x4 truck and some guilt for not riding some of the
tougher sections of Bartlett Wash the day before, so we drove up to
the Baby Lion's Back. There were a handful of Jeeps driving over it.
We stopped to watch and finally asked the last guy what it was like.
He said if you had any kind of 4x4 experience and if the truck had
the clearance, it was pretty easy. When they were done and left, we
walked up and over the entire thing. It looked ok, but the back side
was super steep. We'd have to check our clearance before trying it,
so we drove around to the back to check it out. Jeff and Craig
jumped out and spotted me as I drove the truck up the backside. I
didn't go far. I just wanted to make sure the length of the truck
would clear the ground and face of the trail. It did, so we went
back to the begining. The pictures just don't give it
justice.
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At the front Jeff and Craig
jumped out to spot again. I started up the
slope.
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And kept
going.
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And going. You can see I'm holding onto
the door post - partly keep close to the wheel as I go up and
partly because I was freaking
out.
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I
was talking to the truck and myself the whole way
up.
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With the height
and length of the hood and the steepness of the slope, I couldn't
really see where I was going. At the top I jumped out to
catch my breath. My arms and legs were shaking from the
adrenaline.
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Here we are on the
top.
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Again because of
the size of the hood I coudn't really see where I was going. Craig
got out and waked down the center of the path, so I knew
where
to
go.
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