Mancos Mesa

[Aldaron]

I'm really getting sick and tired of this cold weather, so I'm hoping the weather will hold out next week for a long weekend trip down south.

I'm hoping to go to Mancos Mesa via Moqui Canyon. I've hiked down in Moqui, but I haven't made it up onto the Mesa. It looks crazy remote on the map, with miles of slickrock, and lots of canyons.

Has anyone else been out there and have any suggestions on where to go?

 

[DAA]

I have not, but am thinking about driving Moqui canyon this spring, to where the WSA boundary is heading up onto Mancos. As I understand it, the boundary is at the gate in the barb wire fence that goes across the road, but not well signed or signed at all and vehicle traffic has been blazing right on through. I won't, of course.

- DAA

 

[Jeff McWhirter]

Hey - heading out that way next week. Terra incognita for me. Any sense of access and water in Cedar Canyon?
-Jeff

 

[Aldaron]

No, sorry, I haven't made it up onto the Mesa, yet. Which route are you taking to get to Cedar Canyon?

I think it's supposed to rain down there this weekend, so maybe you'll still have puddles.

 

[Jeff McWhirter]

I'm going in at Burnt Spring and out the jeep road at Harris spring. Looking at the topo and aerial photography (bing maps has higher resolution than google maps) it looks like there is a way down into Cedar near the west end of the jeep road. Or there are sand dunes a couple miles further west

 

[Aldaron]

I'd love to hear more about this trip when you get back. I ended up not doing this a few weeks ago because the weather was bad.