Patriot, Independence, 21 Road, Billings, Holy Cross....
Yeah....there are a bunch.

Google or www.traildamage.com

 

I don't trust the online write ups. Rather hear it straight from people who ride them on a regular basis.

Like that trail, Slaughterhouse, rated difficult, and y'all mother ****ers talkin about stock jeeps out there.

Here at Windrock, there is trails marked moderate or difficult and I won't even need 4wd on a dry day.

Also.... trail conditions change over time from people and erosion.

So.... does Google, and traildamage.com compensate for these factor on a regular basis?

 

Yes.

 

Nice link, Frank. Worth visiting.

 

Trail damage hasnt updated the camp dick area. We ran up park creek Sunday and is way more washed out then last time they were up there. The creek is basically running down the trail now

 

I think the rating system on Trail Damage is one of the best that I've seen. The ratings in the FunTreks books are not nearly as informative. In the books, a trail can get an overall red difficult rating for just a small section of the trail. Also, all trails that require a lifted 4x4 get lumped together in the red group, even though there are clear differences within that level. It's like a ski resort not using double black diamond and just using black diamonds for everything from a steep hill with moguls to jumping off the face of a cliff into bowl. But, if you read the trail description in the book it has more info to figure out how difficult the trail is.

 

On the higher rated trails there are signs at the trail head saying the min requirements. A rig on 33s with a locker Id say can do about 90% of trails here comfortably. The other 10% would be rough going or no chance at all.

 

Golden Super Cruise on Saturday. Anyone going?

 

Are you sure every trail is regularly updated? I see most of them with the last updates in 2012 or 2011. I'd also think that after the floods last fall that a lot of the trails got a bit nastier. But I haven't seen them so I could be very wrong.

 

I know that they update when have run them.

 

No, you are right. Most of the trails that I have been on this year in the boulder area are eroded more then I expected them to be. Left Hand Canyon is gone too. It wouldn't surprise me to never see that trail open again.

 

Another good site for checking whether trails are open is this:
http://www.bushducks.com/tripreps/passopen.htm
It gets updated pretty often.

 

Pickle gulch gets worse than a level 3 once you get near the clearing before the cabin.

 

I saw this on bushducks.com. Doesn't sound good for this wheeling season.

 

Well, I rolled the xj on Saturday. Wheeling season should be over for me and it just started. O well time to chop and cage it.