Laurie got out a number of times to direct Bill through the best approach. No one was hurt, but the truck's windshield was smashed and the door and fenders were pretty dinged up. Two other trucks were with them, and between all of us, we were able to right the truck, but they had to make repairs to the springs which were damaged. Rather than wait for them to complete their repairs and being a bit intimidated at this point by what lay ahead, we decided to return by the route we had just traveled and hoped to avoid damaging our own rental jeep. We successfully returned to the beginning of the jeep road without damaging the jeep, but we did have some anxious moments and elevated heart rates as we drove back over the really rough sections.
Today marks the end of our sixth month on the trail.
Al helped guide Eric Seaborg and Ellen Dudley through this area when they scouted the ADT route in 1990. We swapped trail stories about various places on the route. The ride from Monticello to Moab was wonderful. It was mostly downhill as we descended a net elevation loss of 3,000 feet. We made what we think is our fastest average speed of the entire trip.