A weekday trip will follow most of the Hell’s Revenge trail route but will emphasize the bypasses at the difficult obstacles. The scenery and many of the thrills of driving long stretches of slickrock remain, but the emphasis will be on making the trail accessible to stock vehicles and drivers not anxious to break their equipment.

Associate Leader: Julie Jenkins, Rick Jenkins.To be used: Wednesday only.

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The Red Rock 4-Wheelers is a busy organization, but not a place of business in the usual sense (such as having a paid staff). We have a post office box to receive our mail. Someone usually picks up the mail every day, but often not during the hours that the counter is open. When special-service mail that requires a signature (“registered,” “express,” etc.) comes to the post office, we get a note in the box and we can’t claim the delivery until we are able to get to the counter. Premium-price mail that comes in a package that won’t fit into the post office box has the same problem; it must be picked up in person during business hours.

Commercial delivery services are fast, but they must go to a street address and usually need acceptance by a live person who can sign for receipt. Our club doesn’t have a street address where we can be sure someone will be home to accept delivery. Without that, they can try another day — becoming an “over-another-night delivery.” (But give them credit for resourcefulness — in our small town, the delivery person may know someone in the club to give it to. Such roundabout deliveries, however, adds another step, often an undependable one, in the delivery process.)

Likewise, please don’t send things to a special buddy for personal service. Even if your personal middle-man wants to do you a favor, he must first find out who to give it to and then make an opportunity to do it. Out-of-channel deliveries are delayed deliveries.

The moral of the story is that it is difficult

to beat ordinary First-Class mail at getting prompt delivery to the right person in the Red Rock 4-Wheelers. Avoid paying extra for a service that requires a signature or personal delivery. “Priority Mail” using a soft envelope that will fold into the box usually works. “Express Mail” is faster, but we suggest that users be sure to mark the box that allows delivery without the delay of getting a signature from one of us. And note that Express Mail may not be overnight service to Moab; your local Post Office can tell you if it will be one- or two-day service.

How many clubs do you know of that have listings in the phone book? We do, but the phone is in someone’s home. One of our members has an actual telephone with wires, but the number is often “call forwarded” to another home, chosen because that member is likely to be available with answers to your questions. When you call, that family may be out warming up the trails for you, may be working, may be eating, or may be attending to “personal matters” — just like at your house. Keep trying.

The club phone is likely to be available to you between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. Mountain Time. When you call, don’t be surprised if you just get a “hello.” The person answering may not know whether you called his home number or the club number. You won’t spend any of your long-distance money talking to an answering machine; machine messages have been unsatisfactory for our purposes.

Our number is (435)259-ROCK (“7625” in numbers).

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Tip-Toe Through HellNancy Jenkins, Leader Rated