Jim
September 19th, 2021, 12:35 PM
Trent, with Mike riding shotgun, Shane and I met at 3p for the Kelly Flats trail. The parking lot had one pickup with trailer - fantastically void of people!
We checked out a couple camping spurs on the way to HAH. All of us had tall wheel waves on the first obstacle hill before HAH. Trent had an odd, slip-into-a-dip that a quick pull back tended. The three of us made quick work of the hill. At the top we jumped down the bypass, with a check of one of the spurs. At the end of the bypass - at the base of HAH - we said - let's do the bypass again and skip the hill. I enjoy the bypass nicely - some good scenery along with different obstacles (the middle braid perhaps the most difficult with loose grapefruit rocks).
With dry conditions and no traffic I gave the chutes a try. The up the middle / typical found me wanting more traction so I tried the driver's side high on the rock face - no joy there - it kept dropping - perhaps I should have tried higher. Up the middle got the job done. I turned back with the thought of going down the rock slab but decided it'd be wise to not try it - so I just went down the way I came up. From there we headed to the west end.
Trent and Mike were camping off of Pingree Park Road and Shane and I decided to head back via either Old Flowers Road or 44H. I missed the turn for OFR so 44H it was.
Overall, a fun visit to Kelly Flats!
I took a bunch of pictures of Shane's portal-lifted Mercedes...
Highlight photos here with a full set at this link:
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We checked out a couple camping spurs on the way to HAH. All of us had tall wheel waves on the first obstacle hill before HAH. Trent had an odd, slip-into-a-dip that a quick pull back tended. The three of us made quick work of the hill. At the top we jumped down the bypass, with a check of one of the spurs. At the end of the bypass - at the base of HAH - we said - let's do the bypass again and skip the hill. I enjoy the bypass nicely - some good scenery along with different obstacles (the middle braid perhaps the most difficult with loose grapefruit rocks).
With dry conditions and no traffic I gave the chutes a try. The up the middle / typical found me wanting more traction so I tried the driver's side high on the rock face - no joy there - it kept dropping - perhaps I should have tried higher. Up the middle got the job done. I turned back with the thought of going down the rock slab but decided it'd be wise to not try it - so I just went down the way I came up. From there we headed to the west end.
Trent and Mike were camping off of Pingree Park Road and Shane and I decided to head back via either Old Flowers Road or 44H. I missed the turn for OFR so 44H it was.
Overall, a fun visit to Kelly Flats!
I took a bunch of pictures of Shane's portal-lifted Mercedes...
Highlight photos here with a full set at this link:
www.JimWilliamson.net/automobile/2021-09-18--trail--kelly-flats-with-bypass/ (http://www.JimWilliamson.net/automobile/2021-09-18--trail--kelly-flats-with-bypass/)
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