2023-01-19, 01:15 PM
(2023-01-18, 10:20 PM)Beardilocks Wrote: From what I hear Marble Bath canyon is gorgeous and very well stocked with wonder. I’m hoping to get there in the next month or so when it thaws out a bit. My truck is… not small wheel base, but very capable. Although I hear it’s worse than ever out that way.
AFAIK the original false designation was in error. And these errors tend to stick on maps for the long term. The original name was likely for several potholes in the canyon that sometime contain gravel. Or so I read somewhere at some point. Quite a few folks have used it for this purpose over the centuries and left their marks.
I’ll report back in greater detail if I ever get there. Lol.
Hope you get there as would love to hear more about that canyon. Would be interesting to hear what you run into with current conditions of Steele Pass. When I finally did it in my moderately-modified 3rd gen. 4Runner in 2021 I approached with mild trepidation, only to only put in in 4x4 to get up the steps coming from the dunes (west to east). The rest was done in 2wd with a beer in hand ... Biggest difficulty was running into a large caravan of bedecked trucks making an overly-produced video for their YouTube channel. Utterly baffling and frustrating. Oh well!