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Took a trip out to Wolf Caves in Central Texas, which is not far from the Texas Off Roadeo. About halfway I determined they aren't open on Sundays, but decided to go out anyway just to see what I could see.
Instead, Kurt the owner gave me a personal tour of the park in his sxs. It was eye opening, to say the least.
For instance, there is no park road, but there is a dirt road with hard 3/10's and 4/10's. That's the easy route.
Although there is quite a bit more than what you see in the videos, this place is a crawlers heaven. The eroded marble is no joke; I would wear jeans to protect you if you fall.
If you want to go, know that
- A minimum of two rigs go out, park rules. Nobody wheels by themselves out there.
- There is a LOT of grip and little drops/places for tires to bind. HOSS 3.0 and preferably a billet rack is highly recommended. This place eats weak tie rods and steering rack housings.
- Frame mounted sliders and a steel transmission pan are highly recommended. Think like the Next Venture sliders with UHMW. The Next Venture belly plates with UHMW are going to do best.
- You're on the rocks most of the time; the trails are in the rocks.
- Four doors do better because of all the rock splits you can span. This is somewhere two doors are actually less effective without a lot of clearance and you're still not doing difficult stuff due to the tip over risk.
- The spectating is unreal, just watch the video below. However, you also need to keep yourself safe. Rigs turn over doing this stuff.
- There really is no easy way through it, and no non-Sas or otherwise unlifted rig should even try. Kurt suggests 3.5" on a stock Jeep, although I don't know if that refers to pure clearance or not. Also, 35's or better yet 37's to 40's.
- Going will be slow even on the easy route unless you're skilled and/or ready to scrape. Expect to be winched since getting high centered is easy to do.
- Kurt made ample reference to gravity going downhill being your friend. What most people would call a small car accident is how the crawler rigs get down. This is also true of the easy route to a lesser extent.
Very cool place, one that crawlers come from all over (he had a group from Minnesota while I was there). Kurt is very friendly and chatty and the place has an interesting history. He's also a quintessential country guy from Texas, so he's a bit of a character.
But wheeling here is no joke. Until I get sliders and a transmission plate, I may go out but try to get a group there to take me out.
Enjoy and happy wheeling!
This is part of the easy route. We used all the plates and sliders probably a dozen times, and banged hard twice. I mean, hard.
Part of the simpler easy route.
There are parts he went on routinely that were like this photo, although I think we were on a different trail. There's also some scenic outlooks.
Further in the back, those are the "wolf caves", which is what Kurt's father or grandfather referred to in the gaps in the rocks where various animals made dens. There are no caves.
One gold star for the first person to say why this is called TRex.
Instead, Kurt the owner gave me a personal tour of the park in his sxs. It was eye opening, to say the least.
For instance, there is no park road, but there is a dirt road with hard 3/10's and 4/10's. That's the easy route.
Although there is quite a bit more than what you see in the videos, this place is a crawlers heaven. The eroded marble is no joke; I would wear jeans to protect you if you fall.
If you want to go, know that
- A minimum of two rigs go out, park rules. Nobody wheels by themselves out there.
- There is a LOT of grip and little drops/places for tires to bind. HOSS 3.0 and preferably a billet rack is highly recommended. This place eats weak tie rods and steering rack housings.
- Frame mounted sliders and a steel transmission pan are highly recommended. Think like the Next Venture sliders with UHMW. The Next Venture belly plates with UHMW are going to do best.
- You're on the rocks most of the time; the trails are in the rocks.
- Four doors do better because of all the rock splits you can span. This is somewhere two doors are actually less effective without a lot of clearance and you're still not doing difficult stuff due to the tip over risk.
- The spectating is unreal, just watch the video below. However, you also need to keep yourself safe. Rigs turn over doing this stuff.
- There really is no easy way through it, and no non-Sas or otherwise unlifted rig should even try. Kurt suggests 3.5" on a stock Jeep, although I don't know if that refers to pure clearance or not. Also, 35's or better yet 37's to 40's.
- Going will be slow even on the easy route unless you're skilled and/or ready to scrape. Expect to be winched since getting high centered is easy to do.
- Kurt made ample reference to gravity going downhill being your friend. What most people would call a small car accident is how the crawler rigs get down. This is also true of the easy route to a lesser extent.
Very cool place, one that crawlers come from all over (he had a group from Minnesota while I was there). Kurt is very friendly and chatty and the place has an interesting history. He's also a quintessential country guy from Texas, so he's a bit of a character.
But wheeling here is no joke. Until I get sliders and a transmission plate, I may go out but try to get a group there to take me out.
Enjoy and happy wheeling!
This is part of the easy route. We used all the plates and sliders probably a dozen times, and banged hard twice. I mean, hard.
Part of the simpler easy route.
There are parts he went on routinely that were like this photo, although I think we were on a different trail. There's also some scenic outlooks.
Further in the back, those are the "wolf caves", which is what Kurt's father or grandfather referred to in the gaps in the rocks where various animals made dens. There are no caves.
One gold star for the first person to say why this is called TRex.
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! I didn't think it looked that obvious, but my sister got it right away before I asked.
