John Canfield
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This is another trail that I wanted to do ever since I realized it was a) in Colorado and b) hard rated.
We had another large group but we were split into three groups of about 5-7 rigs. There were some very well set up Jeeps, a Toyota truck, Hemi JKUR (Nemesis company vehicle), and a nice buggy. I was lucky to be right behind the Trail Leader in the first group .
It only took about two and a half hours of trail time to get to Holy Cross City (130 year old mining settlement consisting of two small cabins) which was our lunch stop.
I had zero problems on anything up to the fairly extreme Cleveland Rock - after looking this obstacle over I decided that there was no way I could get up this fairly significant rock ledge/waterfall without winching so I was content watching others try.
Of the five or so that tried Cleveland (that we watched) only a buggy made it up unassisted. The Nemesis company JKUR/hemi did finally crawl it but they did put a winch line out - I'm not sure if she (girl driver) needed the winch to crawl up or not but her spouse was one of the best spotters I've ever observed.
I would rate Holy Cross up to Cleveland Rocks a moderate difficulty level for a well set up 2-door on 35s (37s on a 4-door) with an experienced driver.
Cleveland Rocks is for sure a difficult obstacle - water at the base of it complicates things greatly. If you are willing to get you nose up on a one of the two or three lines, you can winch right up it. Maybe next time in a much smaller group with more time I'll go up it to cross that off my list.
We had another large group but we were split into three groups of about 5-7 rigs. There were some very well set up Jeeps, a Toyota truck, Hemi JKUR (Nemesis company vehicle), and a nice buggy. I was lucky to be right behind the Trail Leader in the first group .
It only took about two and a half hours of trail time to get to Holy Cross City (130 year old mining settlement consisting of two small cabins) which was our lunch stop.
I had zero problems on anything up to the fairly extreme Cleveland Rock - after looking this obstacle over I decided that there was no way I could get up this fairly significant rock ledge/waterfall without winching so I was content watching others try.
Of the five or so that tried Cleveland (that we watched) only a buggy made it up unassisted. The Nemesis company JKUR/hemi did finally crawl it but they did put a winch line out - I'm not sure if she (girl driver) needed the winch to crawl up or not but her spouse was one of the best spotters I've ever observed.
I would rate Holy Cross up to Cleveland Rocks a moderate difficulty level for a well set up 2-door on 35s (37s on a 4-door) with an experienced driver.
Cleveland Rocks is for sure a difficult obstacle - water at the base of it complicates things greatly. If you are willing to get you nose up on a one of the two or three lines, you can winch right up it. Maybe next time in a much smaller group with more time I'll go up it to cross that off my list.
We heard about you guys. Tuesday the Trail Boss inspected each one of us in line for Holy Cross to be sure we had working lockers and a working winch based on all of the problems with the Monday bunch ;D.
