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Drove from OC to Riverside at rush hour. Didn't even see one other vehicle.
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<blockquote data-quote="Droid" data-source="post: 36837" data-attributes="member: 220"><p>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. </p><p></p><p>A Raptor + this route is probably the fastest way to get to from Lake Forest to Corona at 5:00pm.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.fordraptorforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2207&stc=1&d=1303198876" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>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).</p><p>[yt]J-cTrfJGPpE[/yt]</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>Found this little hill and tried out low range with the locker on the way up:</p><p>[yt]6fKvjcawcRo[/yt]</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p>[yt]JJQRQUgKhfE[/yt]</p><p></p><p>(And yes, I totally understand that using these features was unnecessary for this hill... I just wanted to push all the buttons. <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/ROFLJest.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":ROFLJest:" title="ROFLJest :ROFLJest:" data-shortname=":ROFLJest:" />)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Droid, post: 36837, member: 220"] 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. [img]http://www.fordraptorforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2207&stc=1&d=1303198876[/img] 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). [yt]J-cTrfJGPpE[/yt] 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: [yt]6fKvjcawcRo[/yt] 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. [yt]JJQRQUgKhfE[/yt] (And yes, I totally understand that using these features was unnecessary for this hill... I just wanted to push all the buttons. :ROFLJest:) [/QUOTE]
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Drove from OC to Riverside at rush hour. Didn't even see one other vehicle.
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