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Show A Jeep Safari Trail . . . Poison Spider fAcsa twain A Safari Feature nil" I'.ll'K COUUlrV Ol' poison Spider Mes.i is a liiu) of rounded sandstone innos. arches, dune sand jnddn gulches --a route iuiJod by Joy ce Murray during the Safari tins season. sea-son. To arrive at this trail r,,-tioipants will head out ,'fMoab on I'.S. ltUl. then w0t on Utah 27i for about i miles. The jeep trail climbs up from the pa -ed road here passing a displ.iv of froen dinosaur tracks and Indian petro-sKphs. petro-sKphs. Alternating between be-tween leel rock strata 3nd stream courses, the trail at one point crosses cross-es a huge mass of rock which Safari participants must pass oer. Magnificent Magnifi-cent scenes of the Colorado Colo-rado River, the stone fins of Behind the Kocks. the mouth of Cane Creek Canyon Can-yon and the distant snow capped I.aSal Mountains pleasantly confront the travelers along the way. Finally topping out on the high mesa, the trail then winds its way across sliekrock and sandflats where Indian chipping grounds of c o u n 1 1 e s s chassy chert and agate .shards may be seen. After crossing abroad, flat sandy tableland, the trail then drops into an area where uplifted strata stra-ta drastically tilts the mesa. From these sand dunes and sliekrock two spur trails lead to " Little Arch," a natural bridge spanning a water course, and the other trail ends near the cliffs that loom above Atlas Minerals uranium ur-anium refining plant in Moab Valley w here an excellent ex-cellent view of the valley val-ley and several outstanding outstand-ing features of Arches National Park can be seen. The return loop of the Poison Spider Mesa trail soon rejoins the main trail toward Moab by the same route leaving the splendor of this back-country back-country far behind. |