April 2002 - Woody's Wash
Trail Rating - 5.0
Trip Leader: Chris Villarreal
Photos submitted by Chris Villarreal
I believe this trail is called Overdose (If I am wrong let me know). I would rate it a 5 because there is a very good chance for body damage due to several off camber notches you have to traverse. We walked the first section and the only real obstacle in the first half mile or so is this notch.
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I tried to straddle it but my rig isn't wide enough.
The second option is the off camber wall to the left of the notch. Jack and Erik were pulling on the strap up front to keep the front end down.
Erik's first try at the notch resulted in his knuckle getting turned at an ugly angle, he backed out and tried it again. When drivers side tire lost grip he started listing towards the drivers side and would have slowly rolled had I not held his cage up.
His next attempt got him turned in the notch pretty good. We were getting ready to strap him backwards but he was able to get his front tire to climb which leveled his rig.
Originally we wanted to keep his passenger side tires on the wall but it proved difficult to get the passenger side rear tire to climb so he tried it letting that tire just droop.
That line worked good up till the end where he got some good air under the tires. We ended up using a strap tied to my Zuk to bring his front end down before he lost all oil pressure.