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Wow! Shredder ROCKS!
Sharon and I got invited to join Andrew & Shari (Double AA), Stuart (Jeep Virgin), and Andrew's friends, Mike & Kim for a run on the Shredder Canyon trail near Lake Los Angeles, CA.
The trail is very short and very intense. My guess is that is is barely a mile long, if that. But it is chocked full of cool obstacles and great terrain.
I was late catching up to the group but I joined them as they were starting the trail. It was probably a good thing that Mr. Green went last because it took us more time to negotiate the obstacles and I could watch the more capable rigs do the trail first to pick the best line for my Jeep.
The first hill is hard to portray the same way it looks from behind the wheel, but it is an attention getter:
And it continues to get more interesting from there:
Apparently, not everyone has made it:
The trail is short, but has lots of cool terrain:
And some great views:
There are by-passes in a few spots. I only took two, but this was one of the spots that I decided to skip. It is near the end of the trail:
It had some special moments:
Looking back up the trail, this is what the other three came down:
At the bottom was the end of the trail. We turned around and the three Jeeps that came down went back up:
I took an easier by-pass:
On the way back, everyone but me took an extra credit line:
I had a hard enough time with the more traveled path, so I took no shame in that line.
The views going back the other way are just as cool:
When we got almost to the end, the climb up just didn't seem as tough as going down:
But Mr. Green made it! Here we are coming back down the first hill we climbed at that start:
Andrew was the first off the trail and did some playing while I caught up:
It was a great day on a great trail! A big Thanks to everyone for inviting me. Thanks to Stuart for letting my friend Melanie ride along. It was her first time Jeeping on a tough trail (what a start!).
Only mild carnage, Mr. Green got a few new scratches on his rear fender flares (one is cracked now), and a few new dents underneath. Mike & Kim had a rear coil spring pop loose, but that was remedied. Pretty much that is it for damage on anything but skid plates.
The rest of my pics and the pics of my friend Melanie can be seen at this link:
http://s139.photobucket.com/albums/q...-2-08/?start=0
Sharon and I got invited to join Andrew & Shari (Double AA), Stuart (Jeep Virgin), and Andrew's friends, Mike & Kim for a run on the Shredder Canyon trail near Lake Los Angeles, CA.
The trail is very short and very intense. My guess is that is is barely a mile long, if that. But it is chocked full of cool obstacles and great terrain.
I was late catching up to the group but I joined them as they were starting the trail. It was probably a good thing that Mr. Green went last because it took us more time to negotiate the obstacles and I could watch the more capable rigs do the trail first to pick the best line for my Jeep.
The first hill is hard to portray the same way it looks from behind the wheel, but it is an attention getter:
And it continues to get more interesting from there:
Apparently, not everyone has made it:
The trail is short, but has lots of cool terrain:
And some great views:
There are by-passes in a few spots. I only took two, but this was one of the spots that I decided to skip. It is near the end of the trail:
It had some special moments:
Looking back up the trail, this is what the other three came down:
At the bottom was the end of the trail. We turned around and the three Jeeps that came down went back up:
I took an easier by-pass:
On the way back, everyone but me took an extra credit line:
I had a hard enough time with the more traveled path, so I took no shame in that line.
The views going back the other way are just as cool:
When we got almost to the end, the climb up just didn't seem as tough as going down:
But Mr. Green made it! Here we are coming back down the first hill we climbed at that start:
Andrew was the first off the trail and did some playing while I caught up:
It was a great day on a great trail! A big Thanks to everyone for inviting me. Thanks to Stuart for letting my friend Melanie ride along. It was her first time Jeeping on a tough trail (what a start!).
Only mild carnage, Mr. Green got a few new scratches on his rear fender flares (one is cracked now), and a few new dents underneath. Mike & Kim had a rear coil spring pop loose, but that was remedied. Pretty much that is it for damage on anything but skid plates.
The rest of my pics and the pics of my friend Melanie can be seen at this link:
http://s139.photobucket.com/albums/q...-2-08/?start=0
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