Hiking The Portal Trail, Moab

[Henk]

The Portal Trail is best known as a biking trail, but it is a great hike too!
The trailhead is about opposite the Moab Rim trail at the other side of the Colorado.

Photographing an Echinocereus (Hedgehog) with nice flowers at the start of the trail








More flowers when hiking up along the sometimes steep trail





Continiously great views along the trail









Reaching the Overview with the giant Pothole!





More wide views when going down again



There is a spot that some might find a bit tricky, negotiating under an overhang along a moderately exposed slope











There is a clear warning at a very dangerous spot for Mountain Bikers!!!







Back down at the tarilhead



View of the overlook on Google Earth showing the coordinates. of the pothole area

 

[regehr]

is the monster pothole as much of a keeper as it looks like?

 

[Henk]

is the monster pothole as much of a keeper as it looks like?

It's just 10y ago we went there, but that pothole must have been 5-6 metres deep.
One definitely wouldn't like to fall down into that hole and break ones bones, moreover the walls looked too steep to climb out anyway.

Locals told us about it and guided us up to that viewpoint.
The final part of the trail wasn't exactly straightforward, maybe that's the reason I didn't succeed in finding any reference about it on the internet.

Wonder whether anybody else has some background info?