Stage Trail & rain

[Britain]

Ok this was plannned 4 weeks..let no storm interrupt this..almost. Attending was Steve his wife and dad (Matt), George Kropp (TDS) and me and my wife.

Hwy 8 was closed down fer snow but holly cow here comes George makes it through and Steve & company 30 min later it 8:00am and they been a traveling to get here. Bunch o crazies , I'm in!

Steve and I wondered if 33's could do this (so we got George to come out )
He was at a bit of dissadvantage with the rain....

First shot on the trail..wet and slick

No fendor this time only the pass door , slid off the rock



George he slipped all over ended turned nearly 90deg but got through


Steve going to geT stuck in same place (iF no rain go right on through)


George and Matt in brief sunshine


Hey George you want rock?? How about this?


Yeah heS happy now!


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Was a fun day some damage but what rain does to an outting! Hope everyone else had a great time this weekend!!

[RUBICONN]

Nice Pictures! Thats pretty gnarly looking!

Michael

[TDS SD]

Devils canyon.

There were times I wish I had 35's. Lots of banging and scraping. Had a great time. Trail lived up to it's name. The Devil made me do it.
George

[Britain]

It was fun! Get bigger tires! It was a lot of fun but the worst is still to come!

Can you hang?? Ha HA..I dont know if my rig can hold up!!!

There were times I wish I had 35's. Lots of banging and scraping. Had a great time. Trail lived up to it's name. The Devil made me do it.
George

[NAILER341]

nice pics!
that looks like a great trail.

[STORMTROOPER]

It was a hard run because of the recent rains. It snowed on us on the way to the desert. Go figure
PICTURE GALLERY
COOL VIDEO
this picture looks like i'm getting run over. Actually, george is not moving, and i'm trying to throw some rocks under the tires.

[Britain]

Great shots Steve. I tell you the friggen rock wall after the first time when I about ended up on my head gives me a real pucker. Being wet was even worse. Good thing it dried out a bit before we went up.

[TDS SD]

Road crew

The road crew did a terrific job. I"m up for another run. Will need to check out the undercarriage to make sure everything is still intact.

[sarah]

Excellent!!

[Britain]

Lets thank the original road crew Mr Ralph Stineman. It was his early pictures which lead me to hunt this trail down.

He's the one on the left of this picture in his 1910 Bush Runabout



Steve has actually uncovered early survey station markers for this trail. Though its only on paper we are going to go and find the brass spikes. Through the descriptions I found one of the stone ruins on an earlier exploration.

Survey notes:

FOLLOW THIS ROAD,
'WINDING NE, ABOUT 0.6 MI. TO THE END OF JEEP TRAVEL AT THE
HEAD OF A ROCKY CANYON LEADING SLIGHTLY E OF N. PROCEED ON
FOOT DOWN THIS CANYON (ALONG AN OLD STAGE ROAD) ABOUT 350
YDS. FARTHER TO A POINT WHERE IT TURNS (N) AND A NARROW
CANYON ENTERS FROM THE E. HERE, TO THE RIGHT, CAN BE SEEN
THE RUINS OF A SMALL STONE BUILDING.

Heres the building ruins



This trail just gets more exciting everyday!

The road crew did a terrific job. I"m up for another run. Will need to check out the undercarriage to make sure everything is still intact.

[rmagoo]

just a silly question, where is Stage trail? Is it near San Diego?

[Britain]

Trail runs through Imperial and San Diego county.
We actually finished the upper trail yesterday and both jeeps got damaged. Pictures of the final section will be posted through the week