Later we explored the Fisher Towers, just a bit north of our resort.



Moab is an interesting town – probably ¾ of the cars are carrying mountain bikes, hauling ATVs, rafts, and other outdoors paraphernalia. There are lots of jeeps and jacked up trucks and other off-road ready vehicles. Its always interesting visiting Utah and learning a little more about their quirky laws. Interestingly the “ranch” recently expanded the main building, adding a bar, although in Utah you can't actually serve a drink over a bar... you must order a little food if you want a drink at the bar, then it is OK to drink in the bar, but the drink cannot be passed across the bar. There are also many "rules" involved in bartending in Utah - no more than 1 oz. of liquor in a mixed drink, no more than 5 oz. of wine at a time; 3.2 beer seems to be OK most places. Some drinks must be totally ruled out, i.e. long island ice tea?

Saturday morning we took a 4 hour hummer tour with Highpoint Hummer. The first two hours it was just Brad & me - our crack driver headed west to the Poison Spider Mesa trail which climbs over sand, cobbles, and rock ledges and features fabulous views all around.






After that we stopped back in town to pick up 7 more people and headed east to the Slickrock Trail, which is one of the most famous mountain bike and off road trails, a crazy 12 mile loop over domes and waves of slickrock sandstone, with some inclines as much as 45 degrees over narrow ledges. Our young hummer driver could handle it though! I can’t imagine driving or biking it myself, but it was quite the adventure.







We even pulled a jeep out that was stuck in "Lake Michigan".





We’ll have to save a visit to the Needles part of the park for next time – the entrance road is probably 45 minutes of Moab and then another 20 minutes or so to reach the information center and hiking areas. The Maze appears to be a backpackers destination – way out there!