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November 2003 - Twisted Trail Rating - 5.0 Trip Leader: Jack Adams Photos submitted by Chris Villarreal, Eric Zite, Jay Kopycinski We were going to run Armageddon but before our group could assemble the Driven Auto Parts crew pulled up. We decided to run something else to avoid a big traffic jam so we headed over to Twisted.
(Click for larger images) I let my friend Yancy drive the first part of the trail.
Scott was behind my rig.
Followed by Pat. Jay got about 10 feet into the trail behind Pat but sheared the studs to the hub on his rear full floater Toy axle. this left just 3 of us running the trail.
The big waterfall/notch is the nastiest obstacle on this trail. It took me a couple attempts to get into a good position to climb this one.
Once up, I tried to keep my drivers side tire high on the wall to avoid dropping it into the undercut hole. I didn't run it up high enough and got the front end all bound up with a vertical wall in front of the drivers side tire. After trying a few maneuvers and heating up the clutch really good I decided to pull the winch cable.
Scott was up next. With his shorter wheelbase and a sandy base at the bottom of the fall his rig wasn't wanting to climb.
We used my rig as an anchor point so he could get the climb started.
Scott managed to get the line I wanted to do but then kept going way up the wall. We all yelled for him to pull in the winch cable to pull the front end forward. Amazingly this worked and his rig came down pretty gently.
Pat made it up the fall but got wedged in pretty good when he got to the top. He anchored to Scott's rig and winched forward, somehow managing to carry his drivers side tire over the hole that caused me grief.
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