Visited: 06/11/2023
Difficulty Accuracy:
Harder
Stock H3 Adventure (33s rear locker) traveling toward the sand dunes (east to west)
I only marked it harder because of what the past couple of posters have mentioned, and my gauge for green/easy trails is "would I take my wife's Renegade on this trail" and with it as it currently is, there is no way I would take it here. EDIT: I also thought the rating was "Easy (2)" I failed to notice the 3, but still, I thought I was driving a yellow trail (mainly due to the water crossings) until I got back and looked up this write up lol.
On the first mud pit, it looks like the road was completely washed out. When I ran it Sunday, someone had put logs in the mud and I was able to traverse it relatively easily, although I was afraid that one wrong move and I'd have a nice new hole in my radiator, so even though I was able to make it, I'm not sure if putting logs there was the best idea. Maybe rocks would have been a better idea?
On the second mud pit with the shelf, there was a bypass, but I didn't realize it wasn't legal so I took it, but it is getting rutted out too and we wound up sliding for a couple of feet. After getting down it, I saw that I probably could have gone down the shelf no problem, but I don't think I could have made it up that shelf, and I'm not sure if I could have made it back up the bypass either with how slick it was.
My biggest hiccup came from a muddy water hole about 2/3 of the way down from waypoint 7 to waypoint 8. People with tires WAY bigger than mine have rutted it out and I got high centered and needed a tug to get loose. While I was out attaching the tow strap, the center water depth was only up to my ankles, but the tire ruts were up over my knees. Luckily someone pulled up just as I was about to start walking toward the dunes to see if I could find help. ** For y'all on 33s, I will say that while I was in the ruts, it was hard as hell to turn my steering wheel, so I thought I was already up against the steering lock, but after we got his winch connected to my tow strap, I helped my wife crank the wheel as far as we could and it pretty much crawled out without the tug - it immediately put slack in the line - so if I would have realized I wasn't at the turn lock, and cranked it some more, I probably could have gotten out without the tug. **
Definitely none of those obstacles were there when I ran it July2022.