jjmat3
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- Big Bear & Lancaster
A So-Cal club, The Roughwheelers, cut a new trail in a BLM area about 40 minutes from my house. It is near El Mirage dry lake which is already a popular area for dirt bikes, ATV's, dune buggies, and many other dry lake bed toys that go fast. I ran out there to check it out. It was a tough trail to follow as the area has trails running in every direction from all of the other traffic. We finally nailed it down and actually ended up with some of the folks from the Roughwheelers following our lead as they had not been there yet themselves. This is all worthless w/out pics so.....
This is the "Crows Nest", one of the high points that you can drive a 4x4 up too. Nice views of the lake bed and Antelope valley.
We found a critter up there, a Desert Tortoise. Looks like he is high centered. We let him be though so he wouldn't spill his water. He should be hibernating soon.
This was the descent coming down from the "Crows Nest".
We drove for a ways before coming to this nice little hill climb. There were a few like this and better.
Then made our way through a lot of desert terrain over several obstacles like this one.
One of the optional spurs was this nice canyon that you had to drive up and then back down again. The shorter wheelbase vehicles had a better time here than I did. W/ a good spotter I probably could have gone further than the 100 yrds I made it before deciding to turn around.
We found a slightly beat up CJ near Resurrection Hill.
We ended up helping unstick a stuck buggy that had gotten high centered. You can see him in the background of this pic.
Of course I HAD to ramp the CJ..... Cuz it was there!
Overall easy but not a bad trail and this is only a small sample of the area. We wanted to make a high speed blast across the lake bed afterward but ended up in a massive sand storm that you could barely see the end of your hood in. My air filter looked like a sand box before banging it out.
This is the "Crows Nest", one of the high points that you can drive a 4x4 up too. Nice views of the lake bed and Antelope valley.
We found a critter up there, a Desert Tortoise. Looks like he is high centered. We let him be though so he wouldn't spill his water. He should be hibernating soon.
This was the descent coming down from the "Crows Nest".
We drove for a ways before coming to this nice little hill climb. There were a few like this and better.
Then made our way through a lot of desert terrain over several obstacles like this one.
One of the optional spurs was this nice canyon that you had to drive up and then back down again. The shorter wheelbase vehicles had a better time here than I did. W/ a good spotter I probably could have gone further than the 100 yrds I made it before deciding to turn around.
We found a slightly beat up CJ near Resurrection Hill.
We ended up helping unstick a stuck buggy that had gotten high centered. You can see him in the background of this pic.
Of course I HAD to ramp the CJ..... Cuz it was there!
Overall easy but not a bad trail and this is only a small sample of the area. We wanted to make a high speed blast across the lake bed afterward but ended up in a massive sand storm that you could barely see the end of your hood in. My air filter looked like a sand box before banging it out.
