Names like The Devil’s Backbone and The Devil’s Garden are not especially welcoming and they are not places that are easy to find on a map; but they are pretty great places for a heart-pounding adventure. I’ll admit it, I wasn’t particularly excited to spend countless hours off-roading in the middle of the hellish Utah desert. After all, beaches are beautiful, and mountain views are lovely, but something about the desert always seemed, well—rather boring. There is no water in the Grand Staircase Escalante Monument. There’s no cell phone service, and no stops for gasoline for an extensive number of miles. A deserted park ranger station and road grader both seemed like bad…