shepp Posted November 3, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2022 Torrey and Capital Reef national park So the pandemic showed the masses how great camping is. A lots of rented camper vans and RV’s navigated by idiots with no business driving a Prius let along a camper lol. Hit up a few places then decided to get away from the masses and found a gravel roads and a couple trails on the back side of the park. Ended up getting back in an area I passed thru in 18’ and was able to enjoy that area a little more, then ended the day in a place called sun set point Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sisco Posted November 3, 2022 Report Share Posted November 3, 2022 Awesome, just flat out awesome pictures Shepp. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted November 3, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2022 On 11/3/2022 at 4:13 PM, Sisco said: Awesome, just flat out awesome pictures Shepp. Thank you. Thank you Sisco, I learned shooting pictures of the moon is alot different than the stars but I got a couple good shots of the Big Dipper, I’ll post more about that in the next sequence of photos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted November 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2022 Torrey UT to Alstrom Point on Lake Powell NW of page Az. Took the hwy scenic byway which took my thru a lot of what I saw in 18’ but this time I went east to west. Passed thru the north end of Bryce Canyon national park and Dixie national forest. Then cut south east to lake Powell. I pulled into big water Ut which caters to tourism in lake Powell and was completely boarded up for the winter ended up having to pay 5.15/gal to top off before heading into the desert because the gas station only had premium left. I also was introduced to goat heads when I pulled over to piss cuz of course that was closed too. They were stuck in my shoes and tires?!?! Fuck those things! i headed into the desert and passed 3 passanger vans of people that really had no business being on the road. It was alot like getting to the Super Secret Shotting Spot in AZ but had many V shaped washes and you could see were 2wd vehicles had done burnouts trying to get thru them. Welp my bitching and thinking I was better bit me in the ass and the cosmos took me down a few notches and I cut a tire. FUCK! Ok settle down! You got all day suns not going down, you’re 3/4 the way there you can sleep here if you need to. slow is smooth, smooth is fast! gather up my tools (THANK GOD! I bought a rug for camping) put down my rug dropped the tire chalked my tires, truck comes pulling up. I shit you not it’s two Asian girls and a black cat in a Tacoma they ask me if I’m ok, the cat is looking at me like hey you’re my people! You good bro?!? I tell them I’m good I think. End up having to use both my new jack and the factory jack to get it high enough (after market was to tall with the flat). About this time a van full of guys speaking broken English flying the Arminian flag pull up. They too ask “you ok” I give them 👍🏼 they move on. I wonder about those guys I hope they didn’t get stuck cuz I have no freaking clue how they made it thru those washes. Get the tire changed and get out to Alstrom point and it’s worth every freaking bit of it. I watched one of the top three sunsets and sun rises ever. The stars were amazing, there was a meteor shower and I could see mars Jupiter and Uranus. It was so quiet up there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted November 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2022 Watched the sun rise while I packed up and started the two day journey home. I got to Breckinridge C0 about 8pm it was 34° I got on I 70 the first 4 lane in 6.5-7 days. 40-45 min later I got into Denver it was 64°. I stayed the night again in that little city RV park in brush and headed home @Cunuckgaucho theres a road runner in this photo, dead center! I had the wrong lens on my camera for that range he stopped in the road meep meeped and kept on going. My first roadrunner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubbas4570 Posted November 4, 2022 Report Share Posted November 4, 2022 Good times, and great memories when you do this kind of trip!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cunuckgaucho Posted November 4, 2022 Report Share Posted November 4, 2022 1 hour ago, shepp said: @Cunuckgaucho theres a road runner in this photo, dead center! I had the wrong lens on my camera for that range he stopped in the road meep meeped and kept on going. My first roadrunner I've yet to see my first road runner with any luck I'll see one at the fall shoot this year. If you're up this way BC has over 300k miles of forest service roads, some in use(logging,mining) but a lot of it decommisioned but avalible to 4x4s( they dig a ditch across the road, if vehicle clears you're good). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted November 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2022 On 11/3/2022 at 10:31 PM, Cunuckgaucho said: I’d like to get to BC some day, I was as far west as banff when I was a teen. I need to talk to Canada about if they’ll let me In tho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted November 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2022 Rim Rocker Trail at Paradox Valley CO I really wanted to use different music but everywhere I uploaded to dinged me on copy rights…. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DNP Posted November 4, 2022 Report Share Posted November 4, 2022 Did you stabilize that in post, or are you running on a gimbal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted November 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2022 On 11/4/2022 at 10:20 AM, DNP said: Did you stabilize that in post, or are you running on a gimbal? That’s an iPhone 12pro and a 15$ Walmart dash mount phone holder, it blew me away how stabile it came out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DNP Posted November 4, 2022 Report Share Posted November 4, 2022 Pretty damn good. I’m impressed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubbas4570 Posted November 4, 2022 Report Share Posted November 4, 2022 After seeing your photos and video, it's Time to put some offroad tires on the Ultra and go easy riding!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted November 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2022 On 11/4/2022 at 12:16 PM, bubbas4570 said: After seeing your photos and video, it's Time to put some offroad tires on the Ultra and go easy riding!!!!!! On the trail to Alstrom there were a group of guys on adventure bikes. I heard them ripping up the mountain as I changed my tire, I was alittle jealous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DNP Posted November 4, 2022 Report Share Posted November 4, 2022 47 minutes ago, shepp said: …. I was alittle jealous. Until it started raining/snowing…then I felt pretty good in the cab of my truck with a place to sleep in the back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted November 5, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2022 On 11/4/2022 at 1:20 PM, DNP said: Until it started raining/snowing…then I felt pretty good in the cab of my truck with a place to sleep in the back. The ac was pretty nice too. But I still miss the days riding and every time I get out there on those curvy roads part of me wish’s I was on two wheels Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagebrush Posted November 5, 2022 Report Share Posted November 5, 2022 great pictures shepp, thanks for show Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted November 6, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2022 One last video I found away to Get real music on a video and get it uploaded to share https://nshep79.smugmug.com/Video/i-2hGPncL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98Z5V Posted November 6, 2022 Report Share Posted November 6, 2022 Amazing documentation, and story - your roadies are always epic! Very well done, all the way around. Just beautiful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagebrush Posted November 6, 2022 Report Share Posted November 6, 2022 another good video. thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted November 7, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2022 Thank you everyone for the kind words Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98Z5V Posted November 7, 2022 Report Share Posted November 7, 2022 7 minutes ago, shepp said: Thank you everyone for the kind words Well, before you get into that... Anyone else notice this pic before, from Page 1?! He is SLINGIN' IT!!! AM i THE ONLY ONE THAT NOTICED THIS MASSIVE SHADOW, IN THE DICK-VICINITY?!!? You, Sir, have my jealousy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted November 7, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2022 On 11/6/2022 at 7:45 PM, 98Z5V said: Well, before you get into that... Anyone else notice this pic before, from Page 1?! He is SLINGIN' IT!!! AM i THE ONLY ONE THAT NOTICED THIS MASSIVE SHADOW, IN THE DICK-VICINITY?!!? You, Sir, have my jealousy... That’s actually the shadow of some broad I picked up in Moab….. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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