We finally got a chance to do a snow run for So Cal. We had three of us for the run Jrwid, H3-ING and myself. We covered a lot of ground and trails, more than we ever have before. We started off from the Discovery center about 9:45. As soon as we turned off the main highway we hit snow.
We headed down the road to the fire trails where we picked up to Toyota 4runners from Expedition Portal. Rob had talked to them before hand. They decided to run with us for most of the day. We headed down headed towards John Bull, apparently I made a wrong turn on one of the trails and put us on one we haven't done before. Whoops! Hard to tell the trails with all the snow. We ended up heading back down the road to the extension to John Bull.
We decided to air down at this point since the were no tracks on the trail and fresh powder. It was definitely a blast being the first one through it
The extension was a pretty fun section. Towards the top It is pretty rocky, luckily most of the rocks were showing. On the way down the hill it was a different story. Nature pretty much took it's course on the way down, somewhat of a sideways slide. We opted not to run back up this trail because of it.
Jrwid in his nicely built bad ass Jeep
H3-ING
Toyota
Made it to the Gate Keeper. We were taking a poll to see who was going to try going up it. Joke
One of the only pics of my truck since I was leading most of the day. Poser shot in the snow
From the Gate Keeper we headed back down the fire road. H3-ING had to take off. The rest of us headed down Jacoby Canyon. Once we got to the end of it we decided to run back up it instead of taking the highway. After running Jacoby Canyon up and down it was about 12:30. So we decided to run Gold Mountain the back way. It was a fun climb up it and a ton of snow. my traction control got a hard work out climbing.
Here's Serge's transfer case hill
Once we got back to the highway. The two guys from Expedition Portal decided to call it a day. Sorry, I forgot their names. They had a blast running with us and said they were looking forward to running with us again. From there, seeing it was only 2 o'clock. John and I decided to run back up Gold Mountain. On the way down, we had passed a truck sitting off to the side. It was kinda of weird. On the way up, the truck wasn't there anymore. After climbing up part way, we ran into him going at a very slow rate of speed. After about ten minutes he pulled over and let us buy.
John at the ledge. He decided to take the center line. After stacking some rocks, we got him up it
The section right after the Ledge, It took a few attempts for me to get up, It was a little slippery. John came up it with ease
We headed down the road to the fire trails where we picked up to Toyota 4runners from Expedition Portal. Rob had talked to them before hand. They decided to run with us for most of the day. We headed down headed towards John Bull, apparently I made a wrong turn on one of the trails and put us on one we haven't done before. Whoops! Hard to tell the trails with all the snow. We ended up heading back down the road to the extension to John Bull.
We decided to air down at this point since the were no tracks on the trail and fresh powder. It was definitely a blast being the first one through it
The extension was a pretty fun section. Towards the top It is pretty rocky, luckily most of the rocks were showing. On the way down the hill it was a different story. Nature pretty much took it's course on the way down, somewhat of a sideways slide. We opted not to run back up this trail because of it.
Jrwid in his nicely built bad ass Jeep
H3-ING
Toyota
Made it to the Gate Keeper. We were taking a poll to see who was going to try going up it. Joke
One of the only pics of my truck since I was leading most of the day. Poser shot in the snow
From the Gate Keeper we headed back down the fire road. H3-ING had to take off. The rest of us headed down Jacoby Canyon. Once we got to the end of it we decided to run back up it instead of taking the highway. After running Jacoby Canyon up and down it was about 12:30. So we decided to run Gold Mountain the back way. It was a fun climb up it and a ton of snow. my traction control got a hard work out climbing.
Here's Serge's transfer case hill
Once we got back to the highway. The two guys from Expedition Portal decided to call it a day. Sorry, I forgot their names. They had a blast running with us and said they were looking forward to running with us again. From there, seeing it was only 2 o'clock. John and I decided to run back up Gold Mountain. On the way down, we had passed a truck sitting off to the side. It was kinda of weird. On the way up, the truck wasn't there anymore. After climbing up part way, we ran into him going at a very slow rate of speed. After about ten minutes he pulled over and let us buy.
John at the ledge. He decided to take the center line. After stacking some rocks, we got him up it
The section right after the Ledge, It took a few attempts for me to get up, It was a little slippery. John came up it with ease
