Well folks, this was my best Moab trip yet. This XK is really starting to rock--literally!
I went up with three other rigs from Albuquerque this time. We repeated the 'Trifecta' again (Poison Spider, Golden Spike, and Gold Bar Rim) but since it was my 4th time on it I wanted to do a little variation, so my buddies in the Sami and I headed off on Where Eagles Dare, a newly-created two mile detour off Golden Spike. After rejoining the group and crossing Golden Crack, I got talked into "going to look at" Rusty Nail, an extreme trail that leaves Golden Spike and rejoins the end of Gold Bar Rim. Besides being on the edge of a canyon, looking pretty off-camber, and having some ugly-looking ledges, I thought it looked 'doable,' so off we went. The following video is the hardest obstacle when running the trail the normal direction (we ran it backwards).



More to come...