smfulle
Active Member
- Location
- Plain City, UT
This is an interesting topic that has so many variables.
My experience is limited by a couple of facts:
1. i only started wheeling about 5 years ago.
2. I have only been on trails that a mostly stock flat fender with 29 inch tires can do with a reasonable (as determined by me) probability of success. Some things I can do, but are a lot of work or take more , shall we say daring, than I could muster at any given time.
I hope to be able to move some of these trails around on my favorite lists by experiencing new trails in the future.
7. Pritchett Canyon - very challenging for me, but quite rewarding to be able to say I've bee there and done that twice. I probably wouldn't do it again,,,, well, unless someone asks me.
6. Metal Masher - Most of the big obstacles you can take or leave, but it still presents a challenge, and the views are spectacular. I'd go back any time.
5. Kane Creek - Really fun running through the creek bottom. Just the drive on the pavement and the county road to get there has awesome canyon views, like driving in the bottom of the Grand Canyon. it's been a few years since I ran it. People say Hamburger Hill is getting tougher. It's most of a full day but an awesome day.
4. Poison Spider - Poison Spider has fun and challenging obstacles and optional climbs. Views are great if you want to stop and walk to the overlooks. One everyone should do and I would do again and again.
3 Cliffhanger - When I ran this trail with three other flat fenders (including Greg) I felt like it was sort of a rock crawling coming-0f-age for me. It really boosted my confidence in my own driving and what my little flattie could do. Driving along the cliff face hanging road was almost a spiritual experience for me. I had to stop several times to catch my breath, the beauty all around me was distracting me from my driving.
2, The Maze - I would like to include much or most of Sand Hollow in this. The place is amazing and a labyrinth of trails that go every which way and all of them fun and exciting. The Maze, specifically, is one obstacle after another. Things that take you all day on a Moab trail to try, you get to experience in an hour or two on the Maze.
1. Hell's Revenge - This was my 1st Moab trail, and the one I want to go back to every time I'm in Moab. I have a blast there every time.. It is especially fun to take newcomers to the west and red rock wheeling on Hell's Revenge to experience the wild feeling of climbing up the petrified dunes that seem insurmountable but you are able to walk up without spinning a tire. It's good for almost all levels of vehicles and drivers. It is fun to try some of the big obstacles and it's fun to watch the carnage in some of the big hot tubs.
My experience is limited by a couple of facts:
1. i only started wheeling about 5 years ago.
2. I have only been on trails that a mostly stock flat fender with 29 inch tires can do with a reasonable (as determined by me) probability of success. Some things I can do, but are a lot of work or take more , shall we say daring, than I could muster at any given time.
I hope to be able to move some of these trails around on my favorite lists by experiencing new trails in the future.
7. Pritchett Canyon - very challenging for me, but quite rewarding to be able to say I've bee there and done that twice. I probably wouldn't do it again,,,, well, unless someone asks me.
6. Metal Masher - Most of the big obstacles you can take or leave, but it still presents a challenge, and the views are spectacular. I'd go back any time.
5. Kane Creek - Really fun running through the creek bottom. Just the drive on the pavement and the county road to get there has awesome canyon views, like driving in the bottom of the Grand Canyon. it's been a few years since I ran it. People say Hamburger Hill is getting tougher. It's most of a full day but an awesome day.
4. Poison Spider - Poison Spider has fun and challenging obstacles and optional climbs. Views are great if you want to stop and walk to the overlooks. One everyone should do and I would do again and again.
3 Cliffhanger - When I ran this trail with three other flat fenders (including Greg) I felt like it was sort of a rock crawling coming-0f-age for me. It really boosted my confidence in my own driving and what my little flattie could do. Driving along the cliff face hanging road was almost a spiritual experience for me. I had to stop several times to catch my breath, the beauty all around me was distracting me from my driving.
2, The Maze - I would like to include much or most of Sand Hollow in this. The place is amazing and a labyrinth of trails that go every which way and all of them fun and exciting. The Maze, specifically, is one obstacle after another. Things that take you all day on a Moab trail to try, you get to experience in an hour or two on the Maze.
1. Hell's Revenge - This was my 1st Moab trail, and the one I want to go back to every time I'm in Moab. I have a blast there every time.. It is especially fun to take newcomers to the west and red rock wheeling on Hell's Revenge to experience the wild feeling of climbing up the petrified dunes that seem insurmountable but you are able to walk up without spinning a tire. It's good for almost all levels of vehicles and drivers. It is fun to try some of the big obstacles and it's fun to watch the carnage in some of the big hot tubs.
One roll, a few dozen winch pulls, two easy breaks. I'm on 40" stickies (sub 3k buggy) and ended up winching one wall. 
