Moab 2/3 - Pritchett
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scoutabout
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Great pics. I guess we were mistakenly calling "Axle Hill" "Yellow Hill". Good to know the names of the obstacles.
I guess Axle Hill just got named recently... after Susan.... after she broke two axles and something else in one visit
The true path on Yellow hill is on the right hugging the wall, it was pretty icy...
For anyone who ran this with me, I'm going to put all of my pictures in a webfolder so you can grab the full version of anything you want... PM me if you are interested and I'll get you a link.
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VideoRunner
Registered User
- Location
- Logan, Utah
Pritchett Trail Clips
I had a great time shooting video of everyone. Here is a link to the first part of the trail. I'm encoding them as I have time and trying to keep them small, yet good quality. It was good to see Scott can make it out of Price.
http://blip.tv/file/143898
Enjoy!
More to come.
I had a great time shooting video of everyone. Here is a link to the first part of the trail. I'm encoding them as I have time and trying to keep them small, yet good quality. It was good to see Scott can make it out of Price.
http://blip.tv/file/143898
Enjoy!
More to come.
VideoRunner
Registered User
- Location
- Logan, Utah
Pritchett Trail Clip 2
Here is the second clip.
http://blip.tv/file/143912/
Enjoy!
Still more to come.
Here is the second clip.
http://blip.tv/file/143912/
Enjoy!
Still more to come.
allterrain
AllTerrain
- Location
- Cedar Hills
Nice run guys.
Some of those rigs make me think of "Mad Max in Moab: Beyond Thunderdome"
Some of those rigs make me think of "Mad Max in Moab: Beyond Thunderdome"
Is the bypass on Yellow hill legal? that is, does the BLM know it, recognize it, and approve of it?
Also, I always thought the hill just before the Rock Pile was known as Suicide Hill. It has eroded a ton in the last couple years.
Cody
Also, I always thought the hill just before the Rock Pile was known as Suicide Hill. It has eroded a ton in the last couple years.
Cody
Considering that our trail leader was involved with the BLM's recent overhaul of Prichett, I'm going to go with yes on Yellow Hill. Also the bypass is only 10ft from the original line.... I actually wanted to try the original line but everyone else drove straight to the bypass... I'm such a sheep
Dunno it was my first time so I can only go by what Jim said, he said that it was unnamed until susan broke all that junk in one trip.
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timpanogos
Push to the Peak
- Location
- Heber
Suicide Hill would be appropriate
great scott
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Carbonvil/Price Utah
Both lines are on Yellow Hill, and as Meat said they are only feet apart. So my use of the word ,bypass may not be the correct term. I have always seen the far right as the main line, but there have been tracks on the left for some time now. As to the legal point of veiw I could not say.
The BLM is aware of the Yellow Hill bypass. Like most new bypasses, they would prefer that it didn't exist, but they also acknowledge that it is safer than the original route, and it really doesn't hurt anything, other than being a redundant (i.e. ugly) route. At this point, they tolerate it.
The hill just before rockpile is, as you know, drastically different than it was just a few years ago. I remember when it was a constructed road, and was not even an obstacle. About the time it developed into what it is now (2 years ago, +/-?), my wife broke 2 axle shafts and a rear diff carrier at the same time on it. So we have called it Axle hill ever since. I'd never heard it called Suicide Hill before, but that name is also appropriate!
Just checking. I always lead a group of Grand Cherokee's through there in June and I make them come up the normal way on Yellow hill because the bypass is so new I didn't think it was legit.
I hate that they got rid of the stairs dropping into Pritchett--it did act as a sort of filter for the riff raff that would need bypasses.
Cody
I hate that they got rid of the stairs dropping into Pritchett--it did act as a sort of filter for the riff raff that would need bypasses.
Cody
I think it was so the riff-raff could get back out, we were there a couple years ago and there were 4 rigs that got to the bottom, but couldn't get back out.
I bet they learned there lesson then didn't they.
About 10 years ago a buddy of mine tried to run Pritchett in a Ramcharger on 31's and open diffs. he blew a tire so he decided to come back out (hadn't even made it to the hard part of the trail yet). He blew a driveline trying to get up those ledges, and then it took many hours of winching and stacking to get him back up.
Needless to say, nobody was rushing to drop into that trail again anytime soon. Brett still is afraid of it and it took me 6 years before I was willing to try it in a vehicle of mine.
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You have a good pic of it at it's worst?