Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Driving the Moki Dugway

The video of a huge aircraft doing a flyby over Monument Valley (the post prior to this one) and the drive down the road shown in this post were two of the highlights of an amazing trip to southern Utah.

When you drive from Monument Valley to the Valley of the Gods and then on to the Natural Bridges National Monument, you have to drive the astonishing Moki Dugway.

The road is a series of switchbacks carved into the near-vertical face of a huge escarpment. As you drive down the Moki Dugway, the Valley of the Gods is off to your left, a series of formations off the face of the escarpment

The more you drive this vp;pssa; engineering achievement, the more fun it is--I drove it four times, once with the video camera out the window.

This is just a half-minute clip from a seven-minute video of the entire drive from the top to the base. That video is now up on my YouTube site http://www.youtube.com/divexprt.

Hang on to your hats! This section is about halfway down the face of the cliff. Here we go!


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