Moab Wine Camp

In the process of catching up on the blog – this one is sort of out of order as it happened in March!

One of the annual events that the Women’s Wine Hiking Society hosts is the Moab Wine Camp. It is a 3-day event outside of Moab in the Big Bend Campground, Group site. This was probably the first “car camping” I had done in 40 years. Every trip that I have gone since childhood was self supported and the goal was to camp as far away from the car as possible! It was fun seeing all the different interpretations of car camping – from those that brought their trailers, camper vans, conversion units where they slept basically in the back of their cars, all the way down to the few of us that just brought tents. It was also interesting to see all the iterations of car camping supplies – a far cry from the old, big clunky green Coleman stoves we used to have!

The group camp site had room for about 10 tents spread throughout the site as well as parking for about 50 cars!
I took a short hike from our campsite up a hill and took this photo – the Colorado River is the water you can see.
I carpooled down with Michele and Kym who both have homes in the valley on the other side of the North Ogden Divide.
Although the sun was out, it did get a bit chilly in the mornings and evenings so the campfire was going every night.

The first day we hiked the Dinosaur Stomping Ground Trail.

All total we had 17 hikers and 3 dogs.
This trail was relatively short (3.1 miles RT, 433 ft gain.)
Lots of dinosaur tracks all over the rock faces.
Chloe and Titan. Chloe wore this jacket the entire day and Titan flopped into every puddle we came across.
Eggo, Titan and Chloe – don’t ask me to remember all 16 of the other ladies – it was hard enough to remember these three names!

The second hike we took, after a quick trailside lunch, was to the Hunter Canyon Trail (3.7 miles RT, 387ft gain.)

The second day we headed into Moab and found a trail that is not too far from the main part of town – The Cowboy Jacuzzis via the Mill Creek Rim Trail (3.8 mile RT, 456 ft gain.)

As Dad always said, “Unless you are the lead dog, the view never changes.” HAHA
Not typically seen in the daylight, it was a surprise to see this guy but I have the feeling that the dogs must have disturbed him.
These pools are what make up part of the Cowboy Jacuzzi. It was very peaceful here and we did not see too many other hikers on the trail.
Apparently there is a nice waterfall up this way but not everyone got the memo to stop at the sign!
Here’s the sign we were supposed to stop at. OOPS!

I took a hike the last evening up above our campsite and there was a great view, as well as a few flowers just starting to bloom.

Interesting rock!

All and all a fun weekend. The leaders did a great job finding hikes in the area that none of us had been on. They weren’t super challenging but all were unique and beautiful. Nice gals and even a few that would seem to be good hiking partners as Joel has hung up his hiking poles! Too bad most of them live pretty far away – we might need to plan some hikes this summer in between Salt Lake City and North Ogden!

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