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Made it up to Bronco Knoll this past Saturday. Nice short trail and great views. Fun coming up from the east side and definitely tougher going down the west side. Got a few scratches on the way down, but that's what the armor is for. Good times.Made it to the top of Bronco Knoll this past Satuday!
This was actually our second attempt at the Knoll. Our first time was a few weeks ago right after we got the Bronco (white 2-door in the pics, 2-door Base, non-Sasquatch, 2.3L/7-speed). We wanted Bronco Knoll to be our first trip off the pavement in it. But we were thwarted by the tiny stock tires on the stripper model, as we were trying the steeper, deeply rutted southern approach mentioned in the original post in this thread. The tiny tires didn't provide enough ground clearance and we were denied just from hanging up and dragging. But we vowed to return when we had some bigger tires, which we do now, 35" Nitto Trail Grapplers along with a small spacer lift from ICON. With the extra ground clearance the Base Bronco motored right up it, without lockers of course!
The red 4-door is our buddy Oscar. It's also a Base but with the Sasquatch package so he was already well-equipped with gears and lockers, but he had also recently put 37's on his so he had no troubles at all.
Upon leaving the top, we continued on in a westerly direction that isn't listed in the original post. It's gnarlier than any of the other approaches and we probably would not have made it up in that direction. It was pretty hairy even coming down. But that Crawler gear is badass, holding the Bronco back for a controlled descent even without any of the fancy Goat Modes or cheat codes that come in the Broncos that cost twice as much
There are tons of cool things to see in the area so we made a day of it, visiting several interesting spots pertaining to natural, geologic and human history. If anyone is headed out there DM me and I'll get you a few waypoints for interesting things to check out while you're in the area.
Panoramic view from the top:
The benchmark placed by Bronco Nation:
We took a bunch of video and we'll be posting it up on our YouTube channel at some point. I'll add a link to it here when we do
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