I just got home last night, and have pics and video clips I'll update this with. I left home last Tuesday morning around 6am. I made it to Hanksville, UT to fill up at around 1:00pm (7 hours or so) and then headed west. Before going entering Capital Reef, I headed south on Notom Bullfrog road, which is paved for about 15 miles and then turns to my favorite kind of road.... a remote desert dirt road. Eventually the washboard became intense, and then after 30 miles I hit the intersection to head west on the Burr Trail. From this point, it heads straight up the "Burr switchbacks" to cut into the Waterpocket Fold (geological uplift of rock that is beautiful). The switchbacks are very easy and scenic and after a few you reach the plateau and the road flattens out. There is a spur trail here, Upper Muley Twist canyon, that is a short 3 miles of absolute amazing sandy road winding along canyons and rock formations to a trailhead. I made a short video of this awesome little trail. I even shifted into 4Lo for a small stretch of easy rock crawling. When I reached the end, I turned around and headed on my way back since it was about 330pm and I needed to figure out where to camp.
When I got back to the Burr trail, I continued a few miles to the exit from Capital Reef (pictured) and the road turns to asphalt from here for the next 30 miles to Boulder, UT. Although its paved it's a beautiful ride and I stopped at a small slot canyon called "singing slot" and hiked into it to hear the echos! Then I headed to Boulder and from Boulder, I joined Hwy 12 and headed south for about 45 miles to Escalante. I got gas and headed a few miles down Hole-in-the-Rock road and found a camp spot and made my truck bed and fell asleep early after a LONG day.