Pray to god. Actually that's a great question with an actual answer. When 2 vehicles can't pass, the uphill vehicle has the right of way. So the guy coming down would have had to back up to a point where we could pass. Although I've been in situations where I had just passed a good pull out point so I backed down a hill a little bit then waved the other guy down.
@@exploresouthwest I have a friend who was on a narrow road in the Wind River Range of NW Wyoming, he was over as far as he could get on the outside and the vehicle passing him, made his vehicle go over the edge and flipped landing upside down 20 feet down in a creek bed. Said he was trapped as his car doors would not open nor the windows, he hung upside down for 3 hours before someone else found him and helped him out.
You hope nobody is crazy enough to be driving down from the top. If you do meet someone, it's rock, paper, scissors and the loser has to back all the way out.
@@danpalmer2881 Why would someone be crazy if they was driving down from the top. I mean if you come up , you have to come down right? Most trails where I live you have to come out the same way you came.
Years of exploring the West has taught me that if you see a lot of large diameter culverts, like the ones in this video, then the road you are traveling on used to be a main thoroughfare. And its always amazing how fast nature can reclaim something that doesn't get proper maintenance. From one that drives a 4x4 for a living I can definitely say that was some great off road driving!! Well done.
Our 19-year-old daughter drove us on this road in our 1992 Range Rover last week. It was a lot of fun and the scenery was amazing, and she got some good 4 wheeling experience.
Excellent video. Love your choice of trail and location. Went through that area in '97 and loved it. Then I took a flight from CA to TX and flew right over Comb Ridge; it was so cool to have flown over it and see it clear as day from 30,000 feet! Love the video series. Actually your channel name says it all! Thank you.
I did this a couple years before this clip and can vouch for everything you just watched - and more! I was in my GMC pickup and agree it should be ATV only now. It is one of the best adventures you can go on if you can make it. Thanks again, and btw, it used to be well maintained before the new highway, we used it in the early 60’s to get to Halls Marina on the “new” Lake Powell!! All I can say is the dirt they hauled in to make it a road and then maintain it has been washed away making it the adventure it is today. 🏜
Sweet video. Thanks. The rock art is cool , much like Australian Aboriginal paintings. At 15:55 you go through a fence. Probably drove bullock and horse driven wagons . My wife's family were early Australian settlers, one 10 year old boy relative got trapped and dragged under a bullock wagon and took a couple days to die..
I've seen pictures of the Australian Aboriginal paintings and it's very similar. I love the very ghostly and spirit like style they have. I think it would be so cool to see the ones over there too.
It’s called the Comb Ridge Dugway. Been up it on the 950cc motorcycle a couple of times and it was fairly tame compared to some other trails in the area. Elephant Hill or Bobby’s Hole for example.
You are braver then I would ever be. I would not even gotten 1/2 mile up. Scared me just watching. Beautiful scenery but very scary drive. You are a brave man
Thanks for the video. I've driven the length, between the highways, of Comb Ridge on both the east and west side and also across Cedar Mesa from west to east on the road that intersects the west Comb Ridge road. The road you took doesn't show on AAA maps but looks doable in my 2-door Wrangler Sport, i.e. short wheelbase, with 12 inches of ground clearance. An area I've wanted to explore more is the east Comb Ridge road. There are side trails that go up to the sloped east side of the ridge, which has some interesting geological features that can be seen from the main road and which I've also seen from the air in a Cessna overflight.
Yes! WTG. Helluva fun drive and you nailed it. The part that always steams my goat, is all these folk wrapped in all kinds of technology assuring them, or should assure them they got nothing to sweat including their own recklessness... that back in the day folks were tooling around all these hills and deserts in Model T's and A's had high clearance, thick tread, skinny tires, 4 cyl. engines, and worst of all rear wheel drive. Vehicles nowadays... beyond the power plant and drive train have air bags and shoulder straps... whatever.
Omgosh 😅,,, that was one CRAZY road,,, whew! Utah definitely is Beautiful. Stay super safe on the roads you choose. You sure have nerves of steel lol. I'm new to your channel and my nerves are shot 🤣🤣 but I'll be back for more. Living vicariously through you 🤪
Congratulations! A very exciting, sometimes terrifying video with narrow off-cambers and differential crunching rocks. "We're not even up to the part I was worried about yet". And then it gets ugly. Your real concern is obvious. Great job!
Incredible scenery! Thanks for driving this as it's the only way I would have ever seen it. I suspect this is one of those "drive once" roads. Looks like it would make an interesting hike now.
Ok, I know have made an earlier comment, but gotta tell ya every time watch this video it is Ball's to the Wall Fun. For perspective there's a pass between Telluride and Ouray, called Bear Paws, Bear Claws, whatever it's there and the thousands of folk who Jeep that speak of it as though its as much of a challenge as Posey's Trail. In my vast history of car mountaineering will tell you, by comparison their stamina facing this trail! They would have all, given they made it that far, gotten out of their Jeeps and slashed their wrists at the culvert pipe and forced their passenger's to do the same. This video is the greatest vicarious fun have ever had. Seen another vid. where a four-wheeler goes down Posey's Trail and can tell right off he'd have reservations about going back up it. You Duh Man!
Loved your video !! Reminded me of going to Moab earlier this year. The video doesn't do it justice as far as the drop offs go and the narrowness of the trails !!! Men were definitely men back in the day. My stomach was in my throat just watching your video !! Haha... Good times !!!
Tried this road last month, March 2019, in our lifted Jeep. Only made it to about 6 minutes into your video. Larger rock in middle of road, too big to crawl the Jeep over. Looked like no maintenance yet from the winter road was nothing like your video lots of larger rocks and barely enough room to squeeze Jeep around it and edge. Would have loved to continue but had to make a 8 point turn around and go back down. Was getting late in day was going to go to hotel rock, but too late in afternoon. Great video.
Oh my god I was terrified of having the exact same thing happen. I kept making mental bookmarks of the potential turnaround places I passed in case I had to back down to them. I really wonder what the road maintenance schedule for this is. If it gets anything official or if it's only cleared by the people who occasionally use it.
Yeah Utah State Highway 95 is one of the more scenic roads in the state. Paved the whole way and you just choose what scenic stops you want to make on the way.
We asked the ladies at the Blanding visitors center about the wrecked car? They said a local teenager years ago pushed his car over to collect insurance. No one was in it.
Somewhere around the ten minute mark me and a buddy ran into a spot where some large rocks did fall onto the road. we were able to get thru and it is a great drive.Then at 19 minutes, that's the parking area for another beautiful rock art panel a short walk south along the cliffs.
Very cool, you obviously love the area and treat the land with respect , one thing if I might the elders may be referred to as Puebloan People or The Ancient Ones.. Thanks for the vid.
Great video. Every time I've been up this road, it's been very windy. I see it was windy when you were there as well. Must be a natural wind funnel up there through the cliff.
This was our route to Hall's Crossing Marina on Lake Powell in the mid '60s. We had a 1955 Chevy station wagon. Gave way to a water truck coming up one time. My sister was driving. That's how we learned.
I have some friends going on an adventure in the spring. I may go with them. Hopefully not on this 'road' as it is more than I am capable of doing. Thanks for going where I might not.
You would be hard pressed now to get up that trail with a full sized vehicle. We had a couple really good gully washers back during our monsoon season. I went down it in my side x side recently it was way way rough. The county quit maintaining it years ago. The classic vehicle off over the side of the rim, the people actually survived and mostly walked back to Blanding.
I've noticed all trails seem to be getting rougher. If it's rocky they get more technical, if it's flat sand and dirt they're turning into bumpy rock roads.
Yeah... I wouldn't do this in my truck. I would definitely do it on my ATV though. This looks like a spectacular ATV trail! Kind of reminds me of the "Behind the Reef" trail over in San Rafael Swell.
Really!? I mean I'm not surprised, I guess. There's not much margin for error if you go a little off the road. And I have seen crumpled chunks of metal remains at the bottom of other similar trails in the southwest. It's bound to happen; it's always so terrifying to think that it did happen. I just hope it didn't have a sad ending and it can just be a reminder for the rest of us to be that much more careful.
Awesome. Very adventurous of you to attempt this road. I would have chickened out at some point. And as someone who drives factory stock vehicle because they're my daily drivers, I appreciate a youtuber who who uses a stock vehicle. The lifted 4 Runners all over youtube are cool but not practical for me. Obviously there are limitations, but you show people that you don't NEED a big lift and tires to get out there and explore.
Wow. ANOTHER GREAT TRIP! Thanks for taking us along. I’m adding this one to my bucket list too!🤠 That last comment is SO GOOD AND TRUE! It IS our land. PUBLIC land. We lost far too much around Bears Ears under a different administration. Maybe that foolishness will stop.
@@Wade-lk4yo according to what I read in two reliable sources, public land was SOLD FEE SIMPLE under the previous criminal administration. It is gone forever as public land, now in the hands of in some cases, foreign extractive industries. Some land as little as $16 per acre, most "deals" cut in complete violation of federal surplus property disposition law. Are you saying these sources are inaccurate? It's been several years since I was feet-on-the-ground at bears ears, so I can only comment based on reliable sources.
@@nunayafb I'll bet even a moron like you could find your own sources. I'm already pretty well grown, but seems like you are the one who needs a little maturing. Obama very appropriately expanded bears ears, agent orange spitefully retracted the expansion. You speak with such authority, have you ever had "feet on the ground" at bears ears? I'm gonna bet no. I really don't care if you understand the truth or not. Your ignorance is not my concern.
@@nunayafb ah…you might want to try using correct words…in this case “your”, not “you’re” if you are going to suggest that folks “grow up”. It helps hide the fact that you are a moron.
Misnomer on the title of this video. This was never called Posey's Trail. It was old Highway 95. Posey's trail actually was a foot trail up and over Comb Ridge in the same area, but was never meant for vehicle traffic.
That's True, I should have put that this is Posey's Trail ROAD, as the original poesys trail was just a foot path, but the road got the nickname because it crosses the same area.
janetwilcox is correct. This was the old highway and it crossed Comb Wash and continued up the other side. The real Posey trail is south of this old road, and the trail is still walkable. It's just north of where highway 95 curves and just east of where the campground is now. There's also a Posey Canyon which is north of this dugway and it's possible the Wetherills used Posey C back when they were doing exploration trips over here. They would go up on Milk Ranch Point (probably) then ride over and go down Lyman Canyon and onto Grand Gulch. Every expedition they made the renumbered "caves" they explored so when you read "Cowboys & Cave Dweller's" (Blackburn) for instance, you learn some of this. If you continue north and then east you'll find old pavement as it curves over to the Cottonwood Canyon county road and then back to UT-95. From the top of this dugway you can also see a section of prehistoric road down below, but you have to walk northwest to a good overlook to see it.That old roadway continues south to several other places of importance, including another pedestrian crossing back over Comb Ridge made prehistorically and called Jackson Crossing. Read Hurst and Till's chapter 4 in Cathy Cameron's book about the excavation of the Great House in Bluff for details on old roads.@@exploresouthwest
You should go through an area like that with at least one other vehicle. That way if something happens you can work it out together or get out with the other vehicle.
They still clear that road. Ive seen rocks on there after winter before. Ridden it Jeeps, dirt bikes, atv's and now Sxs's since late 80's. Its a good one. That area has a lot of great trails including the famous Hole in the Rock trail by Halls Crossing.
kong3 we road this by accident when google took us this way as a shortcut to the butler wash ruins. Luckily we made it ... but I’ve been trying to find the story behind that rusty wrecked car on it’s side down the cliff.
The Monkey Wrench Gang knew this area well !! Love this whole area. The vid is great too, I've watched it several times. On my map ( Delorme Atlas Gazetteer) it shows this as the Lower Butler Wash Road. Poseys trail doesn't show until North of 95. The two don't show as connecting up either ?
This is the road. There is also a trail that is the actual route Posey would take on horseback to outwit the local law enforcement and to do it on foot it seems impossible to do on horseback. The man is a legend.
What do you do when you meet the vehicle opposite direction?
Pray to god.
Actually that's a great question with an actual answer. When 2 vehicles can't pass, the uphill vehicle has the right of way. So the guy coming down would have had to back up to a point where we could pass.
Although I've been in situations where I had just passed a good pull out point so I backed down a hill a little bit then waved the other guy down.
@@exploresouthwest I have a friend who was on a narrow road in the Wind River Range of NW Wyoming, he was over as far as he could get on the outside and the vehicle passing him, made his vehicle go over the edge and flipped landing upside down 20 feet down in a creek bed. Said he was trapped as his car doors would not open nor the windows, he hung upside down for 3 hours before someone else found him and helped him out.
You hope nobody is crazy enough to be driving down from the top. If you do meet someone, it's rock, paper, scissors and the loser has to back all the way out.
@@garypalmer692 Thats crazy! Why didnt the vehicle passing him help or report it?
@@danpalmer2881 Why would someone be crazy if they was driving down from the top. I mean if you come up , you have to come down right? Most trails where I live you have to come out the same way you came.
Years of exploring the West has taught me that if you see a lot of large diameter culverts, like the ones in this video, then the road you are traveling on used to be a main thoroughfare. And its always amazing how fast nature can reclaim something that doesn't get proper maintenance. From one that drives a 4x4 for a living I can definitely say that was some great off road driving!! Well done.
Back in Vietnam in 1970, it was less stressful than watching this video. My hat is off to you.
Impressive. Neat how the Internet allows some of us to go where we normally couldn't or wouldn't! Thanks.
Our 19-year-old daughter drove us on this road in our 1992 Range Rover last week. It was a lot of fun and the scenery was amazing, and she got some good 4 wheeling experience.
That sure was a gnarly road and I got to see it without even having to leave the house - Love TH-cam! Thanks for uploading
Thanks for the ride. It was fun. Reminds me of an area near Superior, AZ called walnut canyon. Drove it with a Jeep Cherokee XJ. Fun times.
Excellent video. Love your choice of trail and location. Went through that area in '97 and loved it. Then I took a flight from CA to TX and flew right over Comb Ridge; it was so cool to have flown over it and see it clear as day from 30,000 feet!
Love the video series. Actually your channel name says it all! Thank you.
This looks like a great road for gravel biking & bikepacking. Thanks for recording!
I did this a couple years before this clip and can vouch for everything you just watched - and more! I was in my GMC pickup and agree it should be ATV only now. It is one of the best adventures you can go on if you can make it. Thanks again, and btw, it used to be well maintained before the new highway, we used it in the early 60’s to get to Halls Marina on the “new” Lake Powell!! All I can say is the dirt they hauled in to make it a road and then maintain it has been washed away making it the adventure it is today. 🏜
Sweet video. Thanks. The rock art is cool , much like Australian Aboriginal paintings. At 15:55 you go through a fence. Probably drove bullock and horse driven wagons . My wife's family were early Australian settlers, one 10 year old boy relative got trapped and dragged under a bullock wagon and took a couple days to die..
I've seen pictures of the Australian Aboriginal paintings and it's very similar. I love the very ghostly and spirit like style they have. I think it would be so cool to see the ones over there too.
It’s called the Comb Ridge Dugway.
Been up it on the 950cc motorcycle a couple of times and it was fairly tame compared to some other trails in the area. Elephant Hill or Bobby’s Hole for example.
Thanks for taking me along for the ride I enjoyed the trip
Cripes, just watching that I needed a stiff drink afterwards! Well done.
Holy hellfire!! Even in my younger, more daring years, this drive would’ve had my rear end grabbing leather. A drink indeed! Lol.
I was sweating that. Then I thought you wouldn’t have posted anything if something had happened. Keep posting.
Thank you for sharing. Great video. A new place to put on the list to go see.
Whew that was puckering ! Well done, and thanks for sharing
Thanks for the video. Reminds me of my time living in Moab in the 1990's and off roading in my Toyota 4x4.
Comb Ridge is a very impressive feature when viewed from the air. One of the most distinctive features in Southern Utah.
Nice video, we enjoyed watching; looks like a cool area to drive and explore. Thank you for sharing
You are braver then I would ever be. I would not even gotten 1/2 mile up. Scared me just watching. Beautiful scenery but very scary drive. You are a brave man
Thanks for the video. I've driven the length, between the highways, of Comb Ridge on both the east and west side and also across Cedar Mesa from west to east on the road that intersects the west Comb Ridge road. The road you took doesn't show on AAA maps but looks doable in my 2-door Wrangler Sport, i.e. short wheelbase, with 12 inches of ground clearance. An area I've wanted to explore more is the east Comb Ridge road. There are side trails that go up to the sloped east side of the ridge, which has some interesting geological features that can be seen from the main road and which I've also seen from the air in a Cessna overflight.
Yes! WTG. Helluva fun drive and you nailed it. The part that always steams my goat, is all these folk wrapped in all kinds of technology assuring them, or should assure them they got nothing to sweat including their own recklessness... that back in the day folks were tooling around all these hills and deserts in Model T's and A's had high clearance, thick tread, skinny tires, 4 cyl. engines, and worst of all rear wheel drive. Vehicles nowadays... beyond the power plant and drive train have air bags and shoulder straps... whatever.
Omgosh 😅,,, that was one CRAZY road,,, whew!
Utah definitely is Beautiful.
Stay super safe on the roads you choose.
You sure have nerves of steel lol.
I'm new to your channel and my nerves are shot 🤣🤣
but I'll be back for more. Living vicariously through you 🤪
Congratulations! A very exciting, sometimes terrifying video with narrow off-cambers and differential crunching rocks. "We're not even up to the part I was worried about yet". And then it gets ugly. Your real concern is obvious. Great job!
I have to tell you, I held my breath through the second half of this video. You’re a real dare devil.
What an exciting drive and beautiful scenery! In my dreams to do this kind of stuff in these areas.
Incredible scenery! Thanks for driving this as it's the only way I would have ever seen it. I suspect this is one of those "drive once" roads. Looks like it would make an interesting hike now.
Great video! Enjoyed watching. Thank you.
Amazing drive. Nothing I could ever do in my Forester, so great to ride along as your video passenger.
Thanks for taking us along!
FYI- Garmin would route you on that "road" in a heartbeat
You did a great job on this video. Very fun to watch.
Ok, I know have made an earlier comment, but gotta tell ya every time watch this video it is Ball's to the Wall Fun. For perspective there's a pass between Telluride and Ouray, called Bear Paws, Bear Claws, whatever it's there and the thousands of folk who Jeep that speak of it as though its as much of a challenge as Posey's Trail. In my vast history of car mountaineering will tell you, by comparison their stamina facing this trail! They would have all, given they made it that far, gotten out of their Jeeps and slashed their wrists at the culvert pipe and forced their passenger's to do the same. This video is the greatest vicarious fun have ever had. Seen another vid. where a four-wheeler goes down Posey's Trail and can tell right off he'd have reservations about going back up it. You Duh Man!
Awesome felt like I was behind thewheeel of my Jeep C7 way back when--thank you!
We just took that route in reverse direction coming from Cottonwood. It is a lot harder and rougher now than in your video. 10/08/22.
Thanks for the ride. I'm glad you were driving and not me.
Loved your video !! Reminded me of going to Moab earlier this year. The video doesn't do it justice as far as the drop offs go and the narrowness of the trails !!! Men were definitely men back in the day. My stomach was in my throat just watching your video !! Haha... Good times !!!
Wow, you did a fabulous job, I used to drive roads like that
Tried this road last month, March 2019, in our lifted Jeep. Only made it to about 6 minutes into your video. Larger rock in middle of road, too big to crawl the Jeep over. Looked like no maintenance yet from the winter road was nothing like your video lots of larger rocks and barely enough room to squeeze Jeep around it and edge. Would have loved to continue but had to make a 8 point turn around and go back down. Was getting late in day was going to go to hotel rock, but too late in afternoon. Great video.
Oh my god I was terrified of having the exact same thing happen. I kept making mental bookmarks of the potential turnaround places I passed in case I had to back down to them.
I really wonder what the road maintenance schedule for this is. If it gets anything official or if it's only cleared by the people who occasionally use it.
Did it in a Wrangler before 2019
Nice pictographs. Nerve wracking adventure. Yes, the area is rich in cliff dwellings, have to check it out one of these days...
Fantastic video!. Thanks for taking time to make it.
Always walk ahead like you do! Good job.
I was curious about how to get from Hanksville to Monticello going S/0 Bears Ears. Great Tour ! Thank You !
Yeah Utah State Highway 95 is one of the more scenic roads in the state. Paved the whole way and you just choose what scenic stops you want to make on the way.
I just love this part of the world! Thanks for the ride. Wish I was in the passenger's seat with you....
Great scenery, great road....have been on roads as bad, some even worse
Enjoyed this. An area I've been wanting to explore for years
Wow, great video. Thanks. Oh, I would expel random noises as well, more like screams!
Dude...... that is so awesome!!! If your Tundra can make it.... my Sequoia can, too
Ha ha, I think I got an ulcer watching that. I can't imagine driving it. Well done. Gorgeous area.
Great video! I must say that you are very brave and nucking futs!!
Glad I'm just watching this. I'd hike it. Mt bike it. Small ATV it. But I'd have a nervous breakdown with a full size vehicle.
When we hiked this in 2016, there were boulders in the road. They must have pushed them out. There is an old wrecked car off the edge near the top.
We asked the ladies at the Blanding visitors center about the wrecked car? They said a local teenager years ago pushed his car over to collect insurance. No one was in it.
We were just there a couple weeks ago and contemplated doing it in our Jeep but now I’m glad we didn’t!
Great scenery thx for posting.
Somewhere around the ten minute mark me and a buddy ran into a spot where some large rocks did fall onto the road. we were able to get thru and it is a great drive.Then at 19 minutes, that's the parking area for another beautiful rock art panel a short walk south along the cliffs.
I love when people do these videos and we get to see the country side thanks
Very cool, you obviously love the area and treat the land with respect , one thing if I might the elders may be referred to as Puebloan People or The Ancient Ones.. Thanks for the vid.
Great video.
Every time I've been up this road, it's been very windy. I see it was windy when you were there as well. Must be a natural wind funnel up there through the cliff.
Altitude, the higher the altitude, the more wind.
That was scary, I know I couldn’t or wouldn’t do this one, that last 20 minutes was a killer!
This was our route to Hall's Crossing Marina on Lake Powell in the mid '60s. We had a 1955 Chevy station wagon. Gave way to a water truck coming up one time. My sister was driving. That's how we learned.
I was cheering you on the whole way! You've peaked my interest...I'm going to look for this road...looks fun! Subscribed!
You are so authentic, I appreciate it!
wow, gorgeous trail, some quite gnarly bits there towards the top, but worth it!
That was scary but what a view up top!
I have some friends going on an adventure in the spring. I may go with them. Hopefully not on this 'road' as it is more than I am capable of doing. Thanks for going where I might not.
I love to try this. I've dove a crazy mountain roads like that in Mexico and saw a bus do it. It was unreal.
Thanks for this trip- you're a good driver
You would be hard pressed now to get up that trail with a full sized vehicle. We had a couple really good gully washers back during our monsoon season. I went down it in my side x side recently it was way way rough. The county quit maintaining it years ago. The classic vehicle off over the side of the rim, the people actually survived and mostly walked back to Blanding.
I've noticed all trails seem to be getting rougher. If it's rocky they get more technical, if it's flat sand and dirt they're turning into bumpy rock roads.
@@exploresouthwest I bet I could show you things you might have missed.
Nice job documenting the trip.
Awesome video, thank you.
Wow, not sure I'm willing to tackle this one in my GMC Sierra! That looks "jeep rough" to me. But those views from the top are just incredible!
My son and I have been on many intense off road like this.Great video.We have encounter drivers coming from the other direction.
Great video thanks for posting
Your in a Toyota Tundra, no worries mate. Nice video thanks for sharing!! I will have to give it a go one of these days.
Yeah... I wouldn't do this in my truck.
I would definitely do it on my ATV though. This looks like a spectacular ATV trail!
Kind of reminds me of the "Behind the Reef" trail over in San Rafael Swell.
We from Holland where already impressed traveling in the Vally of the Gods but this GREAT👍👍🇳🇱
Somewhere after the pictographs and before the 16:00 mark, if you look over the side, there are a couple of old cars.
Really!? I mean I'm not surprised, I guess. There's not much margin for error if you go a little off the road. And I have seen crumpled chunks of metal remains at the bottom of other similar trails in the southwest. It's bound to happen; it's always so terrifying to think that it did happen.
I just hope it didn't have a sad ending and it can just be a reminder for the rest of us to be that much more careful.
I checked in Blanding visitors center. They said the car was pushed off by a local teen to collect insurance.
Awesome. Very adventurous of you to attempt this road. I would have chickened out at some point. And as someone who drives factory stock vehicle because they're my daily drivers, I appreciate a youtuber who who uses a stock vehicle. The lifted 4 Runners all over youtube are cool but not practical for me. Obviously there are limitations, but you show people that you don't NEED a big lift and tires to get out there and explore.
Okay, I am glad I saw that through your view!
Wow. ANOTHER GREAT TRIP! Thanks for taking us along. I’m adding this one to my bucket list too!🤠
That last comment is SO GOOD AND TRUE! It IS our land. PUBLIC land. We lost far too much around Bears Ears under a different administration. Maybe that foolishness will stop.
We didn't lose any public land with the shrinking of bears ears.
@@Wade-lk4yo according to what I read in two reliable sources, public land was SOLD FEE SIMPLE under the previous criminal administration. It is gone forever as public land, now in the hands of in some cases, foreign extractive industries. Some land as little as $16 per acre, most "deals" cut in complete violation of federal surplus property disposition law. Are you saying these sources are inaccurate? It's been several years since I was feet-on-the-ground at bears ears, so I can only comment based on reliable sources.
@@nunayafb I'll bet even a moron like you could find your own sources. I'm already pretty well grown, but seems like you are the one who needs a little maturing. Obama very appropriately expanded bears ears, agent orange spitefully retracted the expansion. You speak with such authority, have you ever had "feet on the ground" at bears ears? I'm gonna bet no. I really don't care if you understand the truth or not. Your ignorance is not my concern.
@@nunayafb ah…you might want to try using correct words…in this case “your”, not “you’re” if you are going to suggest that folks “grow up”. It helps hide the fact that you are a moron.
Misnomer on the title of this video. This was never called Posey's Trail. It was old Highway 95. Posey's trail actually was a foot trail up and over Comb Ridge in the same area, but was never meant for vehicle traffic.
That's True, I should have put that this is Posey's Trail ROAD, as the original poesys trail was just a foot path, but the road got the nickname because it crosses the same area.
janetwilcox is correct. This was the old highway and it crossed Comb Wash and continued up the other side. The real Posey trail is south of this old road, and the trail is still walkable. It's just north of where highway 95 curves and just east of where the campground is now. There's also a Posey Canyon which is north of this dugway and it's possible the Wetherills used Posey C back when they were doing exploration trips over here. They would go up on Milk Ranch Point (probably) then ride over and go down Lyman Canyon and onto Grand Gulch. Every expedition they made the renumbered "caves" they explored so when you read "Cowboys & Cave Dweller's" (Blackburn) for instance, you learn some of this. If you continue north and then east you'll find old pavement as it curves over to the Cottonwood Canyon county road and then back to UT-95. From the top of this dugway you can also see a section of prehistoric road down below, but you have to walk northwest to a good overlook to see it.That old roadway continues south to several other places of importance, including another pedestrian crossing back over Comb Ridge made prehistorically and called Jackson Crossing. Read Hurst and Till's chapter 4 in Cathy Cameron's book about the excavation of the Great House in Bluff for details on old roads.@@exploresouthwest
Not so bad , such drama, good job you did it.
You should go through an area like that with at least one other vehicle. That way if something happens you can work it out together or get out with the other vehicle.
Love the area. Great video. Guess I won’t take a rental sedan up there though......
Just a awesome video. Doing it by yourself, good on ya.
Nicely done!
They still clear that road. Ive seen rocks on there after winter before. Ridden it Jeeps, dirt bikes, atv's and now Sxs's since late 80's. Its a good one. That area has a lot of great trails including the famous Hole in the Rock trail by Halls Crossing.
kong3 we road this by accident when google took us this way as a shortcut to the butler wash ruins. Luckily we made it ... but I’ve been trying to find the story behind that rusty wrecked car on it’s side down the cliff.
The Monkey Wrench Gang knew this area well !! Love this whole area. The vid is great too, I've watched it several times. On my map ( Delorme Atlas Gazetteer) it shows this as the Lower Butler Wash Road. Poseys trail doesn't show until North of 95. The two don't show as connecting up either ?
Wow! Dude you are courageous!!!
Thanks for taking this nice road so we don’t have to....😉👍🇪🇺🇳🇱
Great video! Looks like an awesome trail with super views!
Awesome ride, I want to drive it!! My Subaru Outback has never let me down.
stressful to watch, but amazing. enjoyed 100%.
This is the road. There is also a trail that is the actual route Posey would take on horseback to outwit the local law enforcement and to do it on foot it seems impossible to do on horseback. The man is a legend.
That was awesome! Thanks for sharing. I think I'll do that drive soon.
I've got to go there! But I'll be driving my atv... You deserve an "A" for adventure.
Very interesting, thanks for posting this 👍
Thanks - glad you drove it, now I don't have to LOL
Nice going. That's a pretty hairball little road. The pucker route, eh?
You are nuts, but this video is amazing. Cool camera setup.