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Old Jun 9, 2011 | 10:42 PM
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Originally Posted by apeezee
Lol I would call it experienced but I went . I stopped at the gales creek shell station to gas up, buy the atv permit, and I picked up a paper trail map. The paper map was much better than looking at the PDF. I'd be more than happy to spill more about it if ya want.
That's good to know that there is a better map out there! The PDF doesn't really go into it. But are the EASY trails just dirt forest service roads? I would imagine looking at the moderate ones would be best. And then maybe checking out some of the difficult ones.
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Old Jun 9, 2011 | 10:55 PM
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The easy trails are just that, easy. Really easy. A civic couldn't drive em but it's easy stuff. The moderate is what we stuck with and what was fun. My stock jku rubi did all the moderates except we didnt do hogs back and anything super far away on the map but we did almost all of the moderates. We didn't do anything more difficult than the blues. I had to three point turn twice on cedar tree (13) but other than that the moderates were even pretty easy and I'm a novice off-road driver. From what I recall u have 37s? I imagine u could tackle some pretty good stuff up there that I couldn't. I would definitely recommend going to woods point by trials 18 and 19. Great view and good spot for lunch. If u want I can pull the trip data from my garmin for the day. I feel like we did a pretty good loop. Were up there. A long time though and u prolly want more challenging stuff than what we did.
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Old Jun 10, 2011 | 07:32 AM
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This summer I want to make a trip down there for the weekend
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Old Jun 11, 2011 | 03:31 PM
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We are meeting tomorrow at 9:00 to head out at Albertsons off of Barnes Road.

Here's the address:
11070-C Southwest Barnes Road
Portland? OR? 97225-5370
United States
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Old Jun 11, 2011 | 03:32 PM
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Damn I'll be at sea-tac :-(
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Old Jun 11, 2011 | 03:35 PM
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Damn I'll be at sea-tac :-(
If you want to come down we can always come out and meet you at the trail head. :-)
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Old Jun 11, 2011 | 03:40 PM
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Rain check, thanks for the offer
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Old Jun 13, 2011 | 11:18 AM
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Had a great time out at TSF on Sunday. We only had a little drama! I tried to go under the Cedar Tree, but the Jeep was just too tall!

Trying to back out proved even more challenging! To avoid the giant rock and log protruding from the group I had to maneuver around them, but then I would back into a tree! With all of the mud and water I simply could not get a grip to climb over the rock! So, we hooked up a tow strap and yanked me out! After leaving the trail my alignment was off and freaking out my ESP. I had to go 20MPH all the way to the Shell gas station to readjust my alignment. We didn't get it perfect, BUT got it good enough to get me home. So, now I have a new weekend project!

Here are some pics! I will post more later!




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Old Jun 13, 2011 | 02:00 PM
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Had a great time out at TSF on Sunday. We only had a little drama! I tried to go under the Cedar Tree, but the Jeep was just too tall!

Trying to back out proved even more challenging! To avoid the giant rock and log protruding from the group I had to maneuver around them, but then I would back into a tree! With all of the mud and water I simply could not get a grip to climb over the rock! So, we hooked up a tow strap and yanked me out! After leaving the trail my alignment was off and freaking out my ESP. I had to go 20MPH all the way to the Shell gas station to readjust my alignment. We didn't get it perfect, BUT got it good enough to get me home. So, now I have a new weekend project!

Here are some pics! I will post more later!
Looks familiar! I should've warned u about the tree, my stocker barely fit in it haha. U do any black diamond trails?
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Old Jun 13, 2011 | 02:52 PM
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Looks familiar! I should've warned u about the tree, my stocker barely fit in it haha. U do any black diamond trails?
We stuck to all of the moderate stuff. Neither of us had a winch so we didn't want to put ourselves into a situation that we couldn't get out of.

But, we did Cedar Tree, University Firepower, and all of the Powerline roads that were moderate.
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