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MonkeyProof

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Tetten said:
I was kind of familiar with this place from 2 years ago when I came up here with a work buddy and did some of the rock gardens. After that trip I checked out the area on aerial imagery and saw there were a bunch more. This has been my first chance to get out there with someone else to check everything out that I could see. Invited some folks out there that said they were interested but ended up bailing, which was probably for the best, 2 of the rock gardens are pretty extreme and pushes the limits of our trucks in their current setup. I doubt the other 2 people we invited first would have been comfortable in those canyons.

The only time people really come up here is for the annual High Desert Roundup jeep event. We pretty much had the whole place to ourselves, we didn't see more than a dozen other vehicles out there all day and most were prerunning the race routes.

We started the day on a rock garden I was unfamiliar with and turned out to be the best out of all of them. Rocks up to 36" that push and roll around when you try to put a tire on them. After that we spent the next couple hours exploring the other canyons around the mountain some by foot and others by vehicle. We could drive up most of the canyons that looked doable, 1 of them was too steep and rutted out from from storms so we bailed out halfway up. After we finished up my route we came back to an obstacle called the Pumpkin Eater and did it at sunset. The ledge is a bit harder than it looks and we both had to do different things to get up after spinning tires a couple times.

The next day I was modifying my route and learned that HDR calls the 2 extreme canyons the "Pumpkin Eater trail" and does them as a single run during the event. I think it worked out well doing 1 extreme canyon in the morning and doing the other in the afternoon, spaced out the grueling parts of the trail and allowed more relaxed crawling during the middle of the day.

If we ever go out there again it should be an even better time, I've got a route set up to go up 6 rock gardens of varying length/difficulty and down another 2. I also found another rocky wash on aerial imagery to check out.
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The Trail is called Achy Breaky
 
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MonkeyProof said:
Yeah I still have it, I broke a front leaf spring at Cougar Buttes one night trying a new line up this and haven't had any interest in it since. Has a 5VZE swap in it and a bunch of other goodies
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Time to link it and light that fire again! Or just keep wheeling your IFS truck like the rest of us.
 
Tetten

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MonkeyProof said:
The Trail is called Achy Breaky
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Is that coming down the vnotch?

As far as I can tell HDR calls the 2 extreme rock gardens the "Pumpkin Eater Trail" and the easier route that runs the circumference of the mountain "Achy Breaky". Achy Breaky is wayyy easier than the pumpkin eater trail.......i feel weird calling what's out there a "trail" since so much of it feels unmolested and rugged, feels better to call them "routes".
 
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AssBurns said:
Maybe Saturday. I might be welding on a PCK for someone that day. Depends if I go wheeling or not. If I do weld his stuff on, we may be able to knock yours out afterwards.
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I'll let u know ... I might be in Mexico on sat but ill.let you know more towards the end of the week
 
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I wont be in Mexico on sat so I'll be free ... if.you have time I'd appreciate the help
 
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