Overlanding from Colorado to Utah | Rim Rocker Trail | Episode 1

[Applause] [Music] what's going on guys we are back with another video and today we are just south of Grand Junction Colorado about to do some Trails working our way over to Moab and with me it's all the way from the East Coast Milton and his Lexus GX470 you may recognize it from the Georgia Overland video and uh yeah we're going to show him what the West Coast has to offer [Music] yeah it is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] it's crazy how much this landscape changes earlier today we were surrounded by white birch and fall colors and just a few hours down the road we're in a more desert landscape with our ultimate destination lying in front of us the lasal mountains ch [Music] [Music] as we drove along we noticed what appeared to be an old mining structure off in the distance we looked over our maps and we ended up finding a trail that led us down the mountain towards this structure what we didn't know is how overgrown and little travel this Trail was with it being an In-N-Out Trail towards this structure if you didn't spot it while you were driving there would be really no purpose for going down this was one of the more difficult areas of this Trail we had a big boulder that had fallen on one side of the trail and then on the other side had a cliff ledge that was about 100 to 200t drop off we had to carefully navigate around the boulder to avoid any damage to the vehicles while also avoiding the ledge now it doesn't look like much with this aerial shot but definitely it was not a very comfortable [Music] situation [Music] well guys here's camp for tonight after about a 130 miles of off-roading we stumbled upon this site which is absolutely gorgeous Mountain Lake that we happen to stumble upon uh wasn't planned at all we just saw it on the trail we saw hey let's pull off here and we're able to get some pristine spots here literally Lakeside so we're now just going to enjoy the views cook some dinner and and uh just hang [Music] out [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] we woke up and packed up camp and enjoyed the beautiful views of the sun rising over the mountain lake we were excited for day two as we'd be crossing state lines from Colorado over to Utah we'd be doing the lasa mountain pass before ending up in our final destination [Music] Moab oh [Music] [Applause] yeah [Music] [Music] aah n n n n n nah nah [Music] [Music] nah [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] aahah [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] n so we took a little bit of a detour off the Lal Mountain Pass we uh we ended up spotting on a guia what seemed to be a little pond and a trail going to it so decided to detour and try check it out and not disappointed got the little Pond here gorgeous views of the Mountaintop and got the fall collar setting in in the background absolutely breathtaking if you're liking the content so far and you aren't subscribed help me out and hit that subscribe button helps me out a ton and uh leave a like while you're at [Music] it [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] this is one of my favorite signs to see going down a road I've never been down before means things are about to get fun and interesting you're on it driver driver yep straight all righty now now it's Milton's turn to just conquer this this will kind of be his first somewhat big obstacle uh a little more driver right there straight right [Music] there [Music] [Applause] [Music] well as you can probably hear we're currently airing up the trucks as we just finished the laau mountain pass that we just got off of you can see behind me the mountains in the backdrop and we are currently on our way down to Moab which is about from here about 30 40 minutes of pavement so we decided to air up and we have no idea what we're going to do so once we get down there we're going to kind of come up with a game plan on what trails we want to hit and where we'll end up camping next on the next episode of our Grand Junction to Moab Adventure we camp at some epic campsites and get into some hardcore Wheeling make sure you subscribe so you don't miss out