This mountain and the roads there are the #1 reason I lifted. I have been stuck and unable to negotiate many of these roads in stock trim, so this was the first test of my set up. While I couldn't do all the roads I wanted to, there was only one I couldn't do, guess its time for that locker.
Where we camp it is roughly 9000 ft, some of the roads we went on crest just over 11,000 ft.Sorry for the pics, my wife is 6+ months pregnant and she is my photographer, she didn't feel like getting out of the truck very much (understandable) so most of these are of scenery pics either hanging the camera out the window and snapping, or through the windshield. I am going back at the end of Sept. for a coyote hunt with my friend so we will try to get some good pics of the action then.
Here is our camp spot.
This sneaky little dude stole this right off our picnic table as we were setting up for supper our first night. Greedy lil bugger! Its twice his size!
The next morning we went up to the peak of Fish Lake Mountain called "Fish Lake Hightop" Its over 11k feet at the top. My father in law and I rode his quads up with my oldest son, while my wife, mother in law, and my two other kids rode with her in the TB. It was my wife's first time driving on anything with some slight difficulty. She did fine and the truck didn't complain once. It took us 3+ hours on the trail. We had a picnic lunch on top then drove down the improved road on the backside to get off the mountain.
The next day we went up along the top of Mytogee Mountain. Its not a bad road, but the Tues and Wed. before we arrived was record rainfall. So it had some parts that were washed out and was rough in places. On the very top are 4 overlooks that look down about 1700' onto Fish Lake.
While on top we saw 3 eagles above us. We see them there regularly.
This one is on the South end of Mytogee Mountain looking south. Hopefully it gives an idea of the height. South of this mountain is the flats that eventually turn into Moab like red rock and eventually you would run into Glenn Canyon (Lake Powel) and the Grand Canyon. It is roughly a 4000' climb to this point from the flats below.
Looking East from this road/mountain is Thousand Lakes Mountain. I have spent a lot of time on that mountain as well. On the other side of Thousand Lakes (The east slope) at the base is where Capital Reef National Park begins. It is such a far drop in elevation you can sit on top and look east for hundreds of miles over red, white, orange etc canyons. It is still the most stunning view I have ever found in my travels.
On the way back to camp we found these.
The third day we went up to the very top to Crater Lake. This is a much rougher trail than any of the others we went on. Once you get to Crater lake it continues onto Ox Spring and gets even rougher. We went up about a mile on the trail towards Ox Spring but that was the road that stopped me at a large rock step. It might have required some equipment I didn't have, and an experienced spotter for me to attempt, I probably could have done it, but with only two quads to get me back out, no winch, all my kids, a pregnant wife, and no room to maneuver in the trees I decided not to attempt it. Call me a woosie, I don't care.
Anyhow I apologize for the crappy photos, I wasn't planning on doing an actual writeup on this trip, but I had the pics and its a part of Utah that doesn't get shown much so I thought I would share.
Hope you enjoyed.
Edited to fix errors.
