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I'll add the few pictures we have to this they are all most all at stops as this was a one vehicle run. I will say these are all great moderate trails! some tend to be at the more extreme end of the moderate scale. if it had been raining we would have had to pull a lot of line.
88 starts out as a gravel grade off of highway 116 also known as the devil's triangle in the road bike world. This trail was new as of 2023 and is a bit overgrown in places since it is on the north of the park. The gravel road is rutted from all the heavy rain we have had this summer but is still an easy traverse to where trees had been clear cut on the mountains side. I assume this is what birthed this trail. At this cleared area where new pine growth is already rapidly taking hold the more advanced part of the trail starts.
The grade begins to be a bit more steep in this section and the rocks and ruts become more pronounced as you leave the gravel behind. The trail opens up quite a bit and is no longer as tight. There are some nice water spillways in wetter weather.
You pass trail 49 this is a double diamond trail and looks every bit of that as it leaves trail 88. after this things level out and it is several splash holes later that you run into trail 50. We took a left and a short bit later another left on 60 shortly after that you will see 90 which is another double diamond trail. It is a short trail but we had no time to look at it as we were on a mission to see if 65 linked back to either 67 or 76 over TWRA land adjacent to the park.
We made another left onto 65 after passing the exit of trail 49. I'd like to warn you here as you pass up this tight brushed, marsh splash hole of a trail during summer months you may encounter deer flies. My vehicle is blue and they congregate on the mirrors when I chance on them. I understand the females have a painful bite. WINDOWS UP!
We followed this trail in ever tightening and body rashing brush until we hit TWRA land. My famous line from this trail was "it looks like it's opening up ahead". (it never opened up for long!) On TWRA land the trail had been used but probably only by side by sides in any recent time. We were coming "down" the mountain side when we came to a place i decided I needed to get out to "pick a line". The spot ended up being innocuous enough but I spied something up ahead. I walked down to it to find a stair step on the downhill that made me think "not alone". This is the point my friend of many decades had to walk behind me up the down hill as I reversed through tight brush and around trees in reverse up the hill. Mind you this was the kind of brush where my limb risers got a ton of workout. Basically no visibility in reverse except the reverse camera. This was almost useless... did I mention the "edge" beside us. In the end all was well and we made it to a "wide spot" and swung around.
In a while we were back to a left on 60 where we went a left on 59. and a quick right on 64. this trail leads to G53 for a right until you reach a right on 53. we took this for a bit to 52. for a right. This short trail runs for a bit to G52 where a left leads you to pavement in the Fraterville Rocky top area near the end of 116. It took about 45 minutes for us to get back to the general store where the trailer was from there.
All and all we were in the woods for about 6 hours. It is a great run for a locked vehicle on 33's or a rear locked vehicle on 35's. We had no real trouble on 37s locked front and rear. I did use both lockers several times but a more careful line would have made it traversable with skids on 33's using some winch time.
88 starts out as a gravel grade off of highway 116 also known as the devil's triangle in the road bike world. This trail was new as of 2023 and is a bit overgrown in places since it is on the north of the park. The gravel road is rutted from all the heavy rain we have had this summer but is still an easy traverse to where trees had been clear cut on the mountains side. I assume this is what birthed this trail. At this cleared area where new pine growth is already rapidly taking hold the more advanced part of the trail starts.
The grade begins to be a bit more steep in this section and the rocks and ruts become more pronounced as you leave the gravel behind. The trail opens up quite a bit and is no longer as tight. There are some nice water spillways in wetter weather.
You pass trail 49 this is a double diamond trail and looks every bit of that as it leaves trail 88. after this things level out and it is several splash holes later that you run into trail 50. We took a left and a short bit later another left on 60 shortly after that you will see 90 which is another double diamond trail. It is a short trail but we had no time to look at it as we were on a mission to see if 65 linked back to either 67 or 76 over TWRA land adjacent to the park.
We made another left onto 65 after passing the exit of trail 49. I'd like to warn you here as you pass up this tight brushed, marsh splash hole of a trail during summer months you may encounter deer flies. My vehicle is blue and they congregate on the mirrors when I chance on them. I understand the females have a painful bite. WINDOWS UP!
We followed this trail in ever tightening and body rashing brush until we hit TWRA land. My famous line from this trail was "it looks like it's opening up ahead". (it never opened up for long!) On TWRA land the trail had been used but probably only by side by sides in any recent time. We were coming "down" the mountain side when we came to a place i decided I needed to get out to "pick a line". The spot ended up being innocuous enough but I spied something up ahead. I walked down to it to find a stair step on the downhill that made me think "not alone". This is the point my friend of many decades had to walk behind me up the down hill as I reversed through tight brush and around trees in reverse up the hill. Mind you this was the kind of brush where my limb risers got a ton of workout. Basically no visibility in reverse except the reverse camera. This was almost useless... did I mention the "edge" beside us. In the end all was well and we made it to a "wide spot" and swung around.
In a while we were back to a left on 60 where we went a left on 59. and a quick right on 64. this trail leads to G53 for a right until you reach a right on 53. we took this for a bit to 52. for a right. This short trail runs for a bit to G52 where a left leads you to pavement in the Fraterville Rocky top area near the end of 116. It took about 45 minutes for us to get back to the general store where the trailer was from there.
All and all we were in the woods for about 6 hours. It is a great run for a locked vehicle on 33's or a rear locked vehicle on 35's. We had no real trouble on 37s locked front and rear. I did use both lockers several times but a more careful line would have made it traversable with skids on 33's using some winch time.
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