Avalanche Ranch 2003

 

   
 
 

July 2003 - Navajo Lake

Colorado/New Mexico Border

Photos submitted by Chris Villarreal


Even though Jack brought along a portable shower bag, nothing beats complete submersion in cool refreshing water.  Saturday couldn't come soon enough. While it cooled down nicely in the evenings to around 50 degrees, the 90+ degree days had taken it's toll and we were all ready for some heat relief.  We cruised up to Steve's house and he made us a small map to find the lake and we were off.  It's roughly 15-20 miles away on dirt roads so we took the trail rigs.  According to Steve the water level on the lake was low which exposed some good rocks to crawl on, he was right.
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The rocks down by the lake were literally like sandpaper, even more abrasive than the rocks in Moab.  We were able to climb vertical walls and ledges with no tire slip whatsoever.  

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It was pretty amazing the stuff we could climb, we put on a pretty good show for everyone camping on the beach.

We finally settled on a line off to the right although it still took some tire spin at points to get climb.

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More rock formations further away from the lake.

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This last part was pretty hairy, you would start to endo only to have your rocker panel hit the rock to the drivers side.

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