The Loop

[Snowrunner]

Well this last weekend on the 5th a bunch of us went on our anual Loop trip. It starts of at the snomobile park on Maloney Mtn. Road goes clear over to Godman to back behind Ski Bluewood and down Chase Mtn. Road to the pavement by the gate to Blue wood. There was more snow up there this year than I think I have ever seen. The snow was kinda shitty on the Maloney side of the mountain but got alot better over towards Bluewood. There was a small group of us that left at about 730 from the snowmobile park in the morning and headed around. Keep checkin back and I will get more pics and some vids as they come my way. I will also caption some of these pics so you know whats goin on.


Snowmobile park on Maloney. All Dayton people ready to go bunch of tricities,walla, and other people in the campers behind us sleeping.

View from the park

Breaking through the first drift on the 1rst a couple days before the main trip

First Drift

Side hilling the 10 mile and hour corner

A little stuck on another corner nothing about 5 min of shoveling and some good driving couldnt fix.

Breaking trail on the 1rst at the corner before Sansusie

View of the Godman cabins and shitter

Clayton Droppin off ridge after Godman

Everybody stuck going around the drift.

Checkin out the cornis before dropping off video to come later

Nothing like fresh tracks! The only other tracks were from 4wheelers that came from the other direction.

Backside of Vintners Ridge. Alot steeper than it looks in the pic.

View of the Wilderness

View looking down Back side of Vintners Ridge

Out of about 40 rigs that attempted the loop we were the first two out of five that made it clear around. After this spot its smooth sailing down to the pavement and on home. We stopped in at the snowmobile park below Bluewood to talk with the quad guys before getting off the mountain at about 930 that night.

 

[rooinater]

looks like a blast! you guys do this run every year? i'll have to keep that in mind.

 

[JThompson]

Looks fun, guys! I have been wanting to get back out in the deep stuff lately. It just dumped snow over here on the wet side at about 3000' and up. Wonder if I can make a run at it...

 

[Snowrunner]

It is a blast...so long as your prepared. If your not it will be a very long day and possibly night and you wont have fun or enjoy this trip at all. This year was not a year for amateurs up there and it showed big time. We do it every year on April 1rst because that is when the roads open up to us from the snowmobilers controling them all winter long. This year it took us 14 hours to break trail from the snowmobile park to before those godman cabins which is a little less than half way around. The snow on the first was pure ****. We went on the 5th and it took us 14 hours to get clear around. Its alot of fun alot of snow and anyone is welcome to come up and go with.

 

[Snowrunner]

Warming Shelter above Godman Cabins

Freshies on the 1rst in the meadow

Brad droppin off the ridge past godman

Clayton droppin off

Manditory poser shot on another rig.

 

[Freeride]

Very cool! I see it looks like you guys are running Buckshot Mudders. Do you find those are the best tires in the DEEP snow? Better than IROKs?

 

[Snowrunner]

Denam Gateway Gumbo Mudders 38x15.5r15 is the tire of choice. We like to run them on at least a 12 inch wide rim. The guy in the white camo toyota has 15x14 rims. Typically run about 1-3psi in them. The blue toyota has 36 iroks and did very well. The only gripe with the iroks is they tend to dig a little to much and arnt as wide as a gumbo.

 

[toyman21]

those are gumbos and good luck getting them anymore.
i have ran alot of gumbos and been around alot of iroks and id have to say that the iroks will keep up pretty easy.
these two tires are the best snow tires hands down.

 

[Poohbair]

Great pics!! :beer: