the road to the wall

[Dain Bramage]

needs some help. the entrances and exits to the puddles are getting bad. its not that the puddles are much deeper than they were before, i dont really know how to describe it. here are a couple pics of the worst one, its the last puddle right before the trail splits before the tank trap.

second pic is me standing in about an inch of water directly in front of my truck, approximately 30 inches of water. 33" tires.

 

[Boonie Buster]

I am having a hard time understanding how that spot got bad?:eeek: someone take a track-hoe and dig it out?

 

[dirtygoat]

Were you out there by yourself???:eeek:

 

[crash2]

I assume--heading torwards the wall--thats probably the puddle just after the creek crossing and just before the Y that if you go left--you head into BYS ?

And for the record---nothing can be done about it--just don't go throttling thru it to make it deeper..

 

[lethe]

Were you out there by yourself???:eeek:

no i was with him and there was another guy with us. i had no problems with these spots:fawkdancesmiley:

 

[MIG'DHORSE]

i doubt my little yo could make it... mayyybe.

not gonna try though. i'm just gonna cut it apart instead.

dain bramage, that was fun a while back when we hit the wall trail at dusk. we'll have to do it again some time!:awesomework:

 

[Cascade_Crawler]

let mother nature do its thing

 

[Boonie Buster]

let mother nature do its thing

Hooray for mother nature!!!:cheer: :cheer: :cheer: why do we have to play God again???:eeek:

 

[Pat]

Yep I vote for mother nature also. But I had been wondering if all the water in the tank trap/ tree maze area is trapped there by the man made road grade? That might be a spot where some human intervention might help, even though mother nature would fix it eventually.

 

[CrustyJeep]

Pretty much all the standing water in that area is due to man. *shrug*

 

[87ToyRunnerSAS]

Yup...

Bigger tires looks like the key, looks like fun.:redneck:

 

[Dain Bramage]

well, yea, lethe didnt have a problem cause he is on 39.5 iroks. :looser: i am kinda suprised at this reaction, i figured that that was less of a trail than a road.

 

[notstock]

The Isabel trail used to be a road also, as did many of the other trails in Washington. I don't see a huge issue here myself.

 

[lethe]

this is just one more reason for you to upgrade your tires. you still want to test fit one of my 40s?

 

[gasman1]

The 4x4 should fit the trail, not have the trail fit the 4x4.........

 

[CrustyJeep]

looks like fun

It's not. It's lame.

 

[MIG'DHORSE]

a lot of stock vehicles wheel that trail i wonder if this will cause a large go-around.

 

[Dain Bramage]

this is just one more reason for you to upgrade your tires. you still want to test fit one of my 40s?

yes. but dont let me. and for everyone else, stfu, i was merely trying to bring up something that i thought was, or could become, an issue. i had the thought that the stock, or nearly stock rigs that go out there might drop into that hole, not realizing how deep it was, and get stuck. if i hadnt had a winch, i would not have been coming out of that hole without a hard pull. this was not me complaining about it because i got stuck, in fact, i decided to try the hole on the way out as well.

 

[spidertoy]

and for all those who say let mother nature do its thing, just remember that a stock rig WILL find another trail to attempt, and eventually make a bypass, so why not at least look at it to see what, if anything, can be done to avoid a complete trail closure.

and everybody would be wise to remember that their own piles of rolling crap started out MUCH SMALLER and LESS EQUIPPED.

 

[lethe]

once the snow melts it wont be nearly as bad. there's no reason to close it. if someone closed a trail or a road because it changed we wouldnt have anything to run.