Re: tentative: moab march 20-23
Since some of you haven't been to Moab before, let me give you a couple of bits of information. There is what they call slick rock. That means massive red sandstone formations with lots of expanses of vertical climbs and ledges. Many ledges you go up may be 20 feet or more. There is lots of what in mountain climbing we call exposure.
Area BFE is south of most of the slick rock and has a completely different geology. It is mostly washout trails with tight severe v notches, sandy bottoms, and severe ledges with undercuts. In some ways it is more like Carnage BV but the rocks aren't granite, they are a hard form of sandstone and are covered with scrub brush and sage brush.
You can find many places that are similar to BFE around Colorado, but slick rock is a different animal. The "exposure" of slick rock has to be experienced to be understood. Dropping off the side of a quarter mile high sandstone dome with a 50 degree down angle has to be experienced. Dropping into a 30 foot deep hot tub with almost vertical sides is a trip. Doing a long near vertical climb of 500 feet where if you gas it, even a little too much you do a wheelstand with nothing to stop you going end over end all the way to the bottom is going to get your heart rate up.
I say all this to state that the Moab experience is more than one area. Not tasting all of the offerings is like eating an entre and forgeting the desert.