John Canfield
Site Team
We did a club run Wednesday and finally got to do Poughkeepsie Gulch. It's a fun trail and a little technical in a couple of places (no bypass yet for the primary obstacle but our club is working on a new bypass.) I found the primary obstacle, the rock stair-steps (or waterfall, or whatever you want to call it) on the right side to be easy with the correct line - I crawled right up.
There were a couple of 4-doors behind our group with inexperienced drivers and I spotted one of them up - he had no lockers! He was smart enough to keep his momentum up - it wasn't pretty, but he got up and I felt really good about helping the guy be successful in front of his young family and fellow Jeepers.
Two guys that tagged along in our group of six (they wanted to join us when we were at the trail head) had to be winched up - one of them was a Rubicon as I recall! All of our group got up with no winching - whoo-hoo!
After I went up the right side, I went back down and headed to the far left side of the obstacle and went up it ( video here.) It was more difficult finding the right line but I got up it. There is a center line on this wide obstacle that almost guarantees body damage, that one is for the crazies.
There was a fairly large group of Jeeps (at least six or eight I think) ahead of us going up the obstacle and the spotters were clueless - all this group did was tear things up (and take up a lot of time.) The right side is fairly easy if you get the passenger side tires on the correct line. This "spotter" had their passenger side tires too far to the left in a notch which almost guaranteed a big hit on the right rocker panel and fender flares (which happened as I watched them.)
There were a couple of 4-doors behind our group with inexperienced drivers and I spotted one of them up - he had no lockers! He was smart enough to keep his momentum up - it wasn't pretty, but he got up and I felt really good about helping the guy be successful in front of his young family and fellow Jeepers.
Two guys that tagged along in our group of six (they wanted to join us when we were at the trail head) had to be winched up - one of them was a Rubicon as I recall! All of our group got up with no winching - whoo-hoo!
After I went up the right side, I went back down and headed to the far left side of the obstacle and went up it ( video here.) It was more difficult finding the right line but I got up it. There is a center line on this wide obstacle that almost guarantees body damage, that one is for the crazies.
There was a fairly large group of Jeeps (at least six or eight I think) ahead of us going up the obstacle and the spotters were clueless - all this group did was tear things up (and take up a lot of time.) The right side is fairly easy if you get the passenger side tires on the correct line. This "spotter" had their passenger side tires too far to the left in a notch which almost guaranteed a big hit on the right rocker panel and fender flares (which happened as I watched them.)