Moab is not for everyone. I’ve taken people there that didn’t know they were afraid of heights…. Then we took them up the Moab Rim…. If the first blind curve to the left didn’t get them the off camber right turn looking over the edge at Devils Crack certainly would get them. I’ve gotten where I don’t like taking groups up on that trail, it’s not that difficult but it is visually stimulating enough that people will do things that you never thought they would do, had several roll just to being all weirded out. I got where we would not do that or hells revenge first, we’d build up to it.
Story time from days gone by, it’s related so hopefully all good. One run up the Moab Rim trail we could see a jeep sitting at the Devils Crack (a highly visually stimulating point). We get there and it is still there. We can hear kids crying and some very stressed voices. The driver was mentally froze up, poor guy had his family, they were alone and he was having a full on panic attack. Took a bit but we got him calmed down to the point that we could get everyone out of the vehicle. We talked to them for probably 30 minutes. When emotions were calm we offered to take them back down or they could come with us, they opted to come with us. On the way back down he faced his fears and drove back down, they wheeled with us for the next 2 days and had a great time. Moral of the story, surround your self with the right people, stay calm and everything is attainable.
