This picture is taken at the "Rubicon" of the trail which is in an area where there are two high and steep slick rock uplifts and sandwiched in between is the road which becomes very steep as it runs down to the extended mesa floor.  This is the portion of the trail that has sustained substantial damage due to extreme thunderstorm cloudbursts in 1997 & 1998.  The next picture will give another view.

Here is another view of that portion of the road that has been washed out.  If you look behind the Jeep, you might see what is a road.  Actually, it is a path that I created over the week I was there to get in and out of the extended mesa floor.  Before I went down it the first time, it looked very similar to the terrain to the right of what appears to be the road.  I suppose a more extreme vehicle would have little trouble navigating this section although it is a little more intimidating that it might appear from these pictures.

About one-half mile from the Rubicon of the trail is what is left of an old landing strip.  It may not look like it from this shot, but that's what it is.  The tracks are from the Jeep and this is an example of what I meant when I was trying to explain about the condition of some of the trails and roads on the mesa.  I followed the old trail as close as possible.

This shot is taken about 1½ miles from the picture above looking back towards where I took that picture.  Note again that the trail/road in this sections is almost negligible.  However, this poorly marked road hooks up to a very well defined road system just behind where I took this picture.  Also, if you will look at the formation in the distance, the road that comes on to the extended mesa is on the extreme right of the picture tucked up against this rock and other one that you can't see from this shot at the Rubicon of the trail.  I have hiked that mesa and it has many interesting rock formations.  As the mesa extends to the left, there is a series of smaller rock outcroppings.  Within those rock outcroppings is a livestock corral made around the turn of the century and where I have found some cowboy glyphs dating to 1906.