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Discovered yesterday that Maple Springs truck trail has finally opened, so a buddy and I drove over Saddleback mountain tonight. This fire road had been closed due to storm damage from our just-before-Christmas storm. As I understand it a lot of trees were blocking it and the road itself took some damage due to runoff. On today's trip (weekday evening) we didn't see one other vehicle.
A Raptor + this route is probably the fastest way to get to from Lake Forest to Corona at 5:00pm.
In-cab video. Sorry about the techno music, the original audio on this was corrupted and out-of-sync (extremely annoying) so I had youtube replace it with a stock audio track (questionably less annoying).
There were 2-ft high waterbars (triangular shaped dirt mounds for runoff) that slowed me down a bit as you can see. You can launch these on the mountain bike with a 48" wheelbase, but I imagine they'll kick the back end up (and nose down) on a truck for being so short. On last MTB ride up this trail I found the front air dam from a Chevy in the bushes that tried it anyway. The smaller ones are fun though.
Found this little hill and tried out low range with the locker on the way up:
And tried hill descent on the way down (no brakes): FF to at least 1:00. I need to go read the manual on hill descent, don't quite understand how you set speed. That noise that sounds like a bad belt is HDC pulsing the brakes.
(And yes, I totally understand that using these features was unnecessary for this hill... I just wanted to push all the buttons. )
A Raptor + this route is probably the fastest way to get to from Lake Forest to Corona at 5:00pm.
In-cab video. Sorry about the techno music, the original audio on this was corrupted and out-of-sync (extremely annoying) so I had youtube replace it with a stock audio track (questionably less annoying).
There were 2-ft high waterbars (triangular shaped dirt mounds for runoff) that slowed me down a bit as you can see. You can launch these on the mountain bike with a 48" wheelbase, but I imagine they'll kick the back end up (and nose down) on a truck for being so short. On last MTB ride up this trail I found the front air dam from a Chevy in the bushes that tried it anyway. The smaller ones are fun though.
Found this little hill and tried out low range with the locker on the way up:
And tried hill descent on the way down (no brakes): FF to at least 1:00. I need to go read the manual on hill descent, don't quite understand how you set speed. That noise that sounds like a bad belt is HDC pulsing the brakes.
(And yes, I totally understand that using these features was unnecessary for this hill... I just wanted to push all the buttons. )