trip this September
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Topic: trip this September
Posted By: ilthyn
Subject: trip this September
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2013 at 10:37am
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Went for a super podding trip through Yellowstone, and all the canyonlands for the month of September.(drove 8315 km/5000+ miles) Lots of interest in "Arnie the Podinator," who performed very well. I have a couple of questions when I get time to pose them. Saw some pods going the other way and we each waved. I think we need a podding salute something like motorcyclists do.
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Posted By: P&M
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2013 at 11:29am
Pics! We want Pics!  ------------- P & M ... and Comet too! 2012 171 -- The Monkey Pod 2018 Ram 2500 |
Posted By: techntrek
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2013 at 9:32pm
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+1
------------- Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1723 - Pod instruction manual 
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Posted By: danthoman
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2013 at 2:57pm
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OK...where are the pictures? ------------- Linda and Dan Calley the golden retriever R-pod 177 and a Tundra 8 cyl |
Posted By: ilthyn
Date Posted: 27 Oct 2013 at 3:09pm
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How many of the 1600 would you like?????? Actually, I unsuccessfully tried to shrink the pictures I was willing to submit because the file size is too large but I am a computer idiot and gave up.  |
Posted By: techntrek
Date Posted: 27 Oct 2013 at 9:30pm
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Do you already have them on a pic sharing site, so you could post a link?
------------- Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1723 - Pod instruction manual
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Posted By: ilthyn
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2013 at 5:16pm
Posted By: ilthyn
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2013 at 6:23pm
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uploads/1914/010.jpg - uploads/1914/010.jpg - J ust some of the magnificent mayhem of Bryce Canyon. cheers. ilthyn
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Posted By: techntrek
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2013 at 7:56pm
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Oh wow, nice pics. I forgot how cool that area looks.
------------- Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1723 - Pod instruction manual
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Posted By: P&M
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2013 at 8:56am
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Gorgeous pics! That first one looks like it was taken from overhead? ------------- P & M ... and Comet too! 2012 171 -- The Monkey Pod 2018 Ram 2500 |
Posted By: ilthyn
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2013 at 10:28am
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Yeah, you visit the canyon from above. It is more like the side of a high plateau,in other words, it is not like the Grand Canyon. You have to hike down to get in amongst the towering rock formations which are totally bizarre. Bryce was one of our primary reasons for the trip. We also went to Arches, Navajo Monument, Cedar Breaks, Zion, Yellowstone and other great places. The scenery is fabulous and definitely recommended although if you go, make lots of time for there is so much to see. We did some great hikes, some of them quite challenging, but it was worth it. This was September, to avoid the summer crowds but it was still very busy in places. I dumped my wife, dog and cat in Vegas for a couple of days while I went to LA to market a movie script, so it was a partial business trip. We wisely bought an annual National pass entering Yellowstone which saved us a lot on fees along the way. Highway 263 in SE Utah is the craziest road I have ever driven. Do not try to tow even an R-Pod up or down it. It is possible but not for the faint-hearted.
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Posted By: ilthyn
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2013 at 10:31am
Posted By: ilthyn
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2013 at 10:33am
| Oh, one other little fact: At Cedar Breaks, we were 10,460 feet ASL towing "Arnie". |
Posted By: danthoman
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2013 at 10:47am
Beautiful photos. Its been over 40 years since I've been to Bryce. I'm ready to go back and have a pod just begging to go.  Not so sure about the wife.------------- Linda and Dan Calley the golden retriever R-pod 177 and a Tundra 8 cyl |
Posted By: ilthyn
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2013 at 6:37pm
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Here is a view of the crazy Highway 261 in SE Utah, near Mexican Hat. Approaching, you are faced with what looks like an un-scaleable rock wall. We took Arnie a different route next day. Possible only with a Pod and steely nerves. (leave wife behind)
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Posted By: Kickstart
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2013 at 8:22pm
------------- '10 RP 175-Replaced by 2014 Kodiak 173 QBSL '12 Toyota Tundra '05 Sportster (half a Harley) Retired-We're on Beach Time! |
Posted By: ilthyn
Date Posted: 16 Nov 2013 at 10:12am
No it becomes gravel still at the bottom to the top. Funny thing is, there is a warning at the bottom, but there is about 30 miles of paved road at the top but no warning at the north west end so you could drive the 30 miles before you realize you don't really want to be there. 
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Posted By: SNO4ME
Date Posted: 16 Nov 2013 at 5:56pm
Wife and I were out in Utah Sept of 11. Drove out through Kansas and Colorado to Colorado Nat Mon, down the west side of Colorado through Gateway Canyon down to Four Corners, then into Arizona a bit and back into Utah west of Bryce Canyon. We stayed in a KOA Kabin in Cannonville Utah for a week. We were kind of concerned about staying a whole week in one place.................. While there we did Bryce Canyon, Cedar Breaks, Kodachrome Basin State Park, Grosvenors Arch (sp), Anasazi State Park, Long Slot Canyon off of Scenic Highway 12 (if in Utah, DON'T MISS Scenic Hy 12). On our way out we went through Capital Reef Nat Park. (mostly in the rain) Rain in Utah is beautiful with all the temporary water falls every where! Then out through Flaming Gorge Nat Rec Area , Ten Sleep Wy on up to Miles City Montana and then down the long I 94 home.  We did stop at Teddy Roosevelt Nat Park but didn't spend much time there. (That's another good place to spend a day or three)That Cannonville KOA (and the KOAs the next two years) are the cause of the Pod Purchase. We have the fullest intentions of going back out to Utah. Beautiful country out there. It's just a long trip, 4500 or so miles for us. ------------- Bruce & Donna in the Sno Pod (and Brewer too) 2011 RP 177 |