Trip Reports
| Eagle Rock and Saran Wrap | ||||
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| Date: | June 3rd 2007 | |||
| Trip Leader: | Matt Dodds | |||
| Members Present: | Matt, Fred, Dylan, Dave, Ernie, Glen, Paul, Mike, Zackary, Chuck, John | |||
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| Picture Link: | Album 1 Album 2 | |||
| Description: |
The Group (Matt in the Red YJ, Fred and Dylan in the Blue (is it really blue?) JK, Dave and Ernie in the Brown YJ, Glen in the Toyota 4 Runner, Paul in the 1945 CJ, Mike, Zackary and Chuck in the Yellow LJ and John in the Black TJ) met at the Southgate plaza and headed for the trail just after 8 am. It was a beautiful morning. We aired down at the start of Old Stage road. At the turnoff to Eagle Rock trail the water was across the road. We headed up to the clearing and met up with Jeremy, Katie and Aliah in there newly acquired XJ and Mac and Levi in their Dodge Pickup. All 5 of them had camped on the trail over night. Jeremy wanted to run the trail but was not quite ready, so Glen left the 4 Runner and jumped in with me and the rest of us turned around and headed for Saran Wrap. Saran Wrap is always a fun little trail to run and we had a good time running it. The trail was wet and traction was not at its best. John (running the smallest tires in the group) had a little difficulty at the top of the last obstacle and required a little assistance from Mr. Warn to get past it. We finished the trail quickly and met back up with the campers. Mac and Levi headed home and the rest of us headed up Eagle Rock. Eagle Rock was wet and still had patches of snow and hail on the trail. We got to the first obstacle and everyone mad it through without incident. Heading up the next section there was a large rock in the middle of the trail that was giving people some trouble. After finding a better home for the rock, we continued up the trail. The amount of snow was steadily increasing and when we got to the section the cuts across the side hill it was impassable. The trail is already off camber and the snow drift was completely covering the road. Since we did not want to dig the trail out, so we turned around. On the way down we met up with 17 rigs coming up the trail from Colorado4x4.org. It was still early and we decided to head up to Deer Creek and try to get in the back way. The weather was turning bad and Paul was having some steering problems, so Paul and Dave headed back to town. Deer Creek started out with a nice snow drift across the trail right at the beginning. Mike made several attempts to get through the drift, then yielded to the trip leader. I was able to break through on my first try (according to Mike, he made the drift smaller). There was even more snow on this trail and eventually we ran in to enough to call it a day. We did not make it to the exit of Eagle Rock. The group turned around and headed home. It was a good day of wheeling even though we only completed Saran Wrap trail. Better luck next time. This was John's second trip with the club and someone needs to sponsor him for membership. |
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