Our fearless leader, Mike, likes to name his trail runs after the leaders of the group. We drew the Tuesday straw to lead. Our route took us to Montezuma, a small hippy community then up to Staints John mill and townsite (there were two Johns and they wanted to call them both saints so it is Saints). From there Sts. John road took us to the Wild Irishman Mine. This was a fairly difficult run with some really steep hills and large rocks on the road, narrow ridges and some tippy traverses.
The goal for the day was to run down Radical Hill. This is a very difficult and technical run that our 4-wheeling manual recommends having skid plates and aggressive stock SUVs. One couple had to by-pass this run and head back home. Some of the spots were so steep that several people got out and spotted for the rest of us. One lady walked down as she didn’t like the tilted angles. One spot was built up with some extra rocks as the drop-off on the down side was really steep. Almost all of the Jeeps scraped on that rock. But, oh what fun we had!
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