KAWASAKIS IN UTAH
P76
Feature
Cruising
through
Snow Canyon
State Park
feels like
you're a
living part
in a water
painting.
BY RENNIE SCAYSBROOK
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KEVIN WING
AND DOUG HENRY
W
e're in Utah for a press trip with a
difference. Kawasaki has invited
us to come and try not just the
Versys 1000 and Versys X-300, but also
have a go in a side x side and a final romp
on the ungodly fast supercharged, 1498cc,
inline four-cylinder Jet Ski Ultra 310 LX.
Yet within five minutes of riding on day
one, it could be any bike beneath me and I
wouldn't have cared because I was so en-
thralled by the stunning vistas around me.
Prehistoric is a word that springs to
mind when thinking of Utah's Snow
Utah
Dng
Canyon State Park. The burnt orange
and white sandstone cliffs all around me,
a visual and geological result of 2500-
foot deep sand dunes compressed by
hundreds of millions of years, swap light
flashes between the canyon, making it
difficult to keep my eyes on the road and
the Kawasaki Versys 1000 pointed in the
right direction.
The beauty of this park is simply stag-
gering. It's easy to imagine this place not
so different from now, when great beasts
walked uninhabited and the land was in
Ever y Which Way
