lumpskie
Independent Thinker
I attended Exploring New Hampshire's "Fall Crawl" this past Saturday. The event was an annual run organized by the Exploring New Hampshire forums and started with a Friday night run and ended on Sunday. I only attended on Saturday and here's a quick report.
I showed up to the meeting spot at about 8:30 and there were already about 30 rigs there. By the time we had the morning meeting, about 40 rigs were split into 4 groups, each of which were running a different route. There was one "stock" level run and 3 "Moderate" level runs. I was in a moderate group and the difficulty of the trails I ran were similar to the Colorado Trail, Wheeler Lake but the style of terrain really reminded me of Spring Creek.
At 9am, our group headed to the trail.
The first trail was called "Devil's Pass". It had a number of boulder field filled hills that reminded me of the rock garden on Spring Creek. But the rocks were slightly smaller here, which means I didn't get my rear diff. hung up like I did in Spring Creek. In between these rock garden style hills there were larger rock faces to climb. The pace was such that I couldn't hand my camera to anyone to take pictures of my rig. So, the pictures will be mainly of the other rigs in my group. There were 2 second gen Tacomas, an 80 series LC, a 40 Series LC (heavily modded), a Grand Cherokee, a JKU, a TJ, a KLM motorcycle, and a Land Rover D110. A very diverse group!
The run was a lot of fun and my Tacoma did great. I never had to approach an obstacle twice. (trying to get my leafs to flex like 4runner links really paid off!) After this trail section, we hit some country side roads to get to the next trail. This one was called "Volkswagen Hill" because of an old Beetle Buggy that was abandoned on the side of the toughest hill on this trail. This one was tougher, especially because of constant rain falling on the leaf covered rocks. It was pretty slick. Fall colors were neat peak the entire way.
I showed up to the meeting spot at about 8:30 and there were already about 30 rigs there. By the time we had the morning meeting, about 40 rigs were split into 4 groups, each of which were running a different route. There was one "stock" level run and 3 "Moderate" level runs. I was in a moderate group and the difficulty of the trails I ran were similar to the Colorado Trail, Wheeler Lake but the style of terrain really reminded me of Spring Creek.
At 9am, our group headed to the trail.
The first trail was called "Devil's Pass". It had a number of boulder field filled hills that reminded me of the rock garden on Spring Creek. But the rocks were slightly smaller here, which means I didn't get my rear diff. hung up like I did in Spring Creek. In between these rock garden style hills there were larger rock faces to climb. The pace was such that I couldn't hand my camera to anyone to take pictures of my rig. So, the pictures will be mainly of the other rigs in my group. There were 2 second gen Tacomas, an 80 series LC, a 40 Series LC (heavily modded), a Grand Cherokee, a JKU, a TJ, a KLM motorcycle, and a Land Rover D110. A very diverse group!
The run was a lot of fun and my Tacoma did great. I never had to approach an obstacle twice. (trying to get my leafs to flex like 4runner links really paid off!) After this trail section, we hit some country side roads to get to the next trail. This one was called "Volkswagen Hill" because of an old Beetle Buggy that was abandoned on the side of the toughest hill on this trail. This one was tougher, especially because of constant rain falling on the leaf covered rocks. It was pretty slick. Fall colors were neat peak the entire way.
