Coppinger Cove Wheeling Trip! September 25-27

https://youtu.be/MV8GAnbfXNY

 

https://youtu.be/GcRy-5XE30k

 

It is fun place

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUyKUrfaPeQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU0C6pzDt5E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3tHOlrXLOc

 

Send it

 

What happened there???

 

https://youtu.be/980_nFOiQts

 

Well you're not supposed to get stuck in those. Was that mud hole on the trail or just off of it?

Ouch poor kid I felt how upset he got there

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/coppinger-cove-9-26-2020.687301/

 

I forgot to upload the GPX earlier. Anyone looking to hit the Cove and go to check out the cave, or interested in a repeat trip, here it is. The bunches of squiggles at the end are me walking around the area near the cave.

I know it's been said before, but if this post is linked out of context for some reason since it has the GPX: Don't try this trail without 33s, sliders, and skids. You can't even get over the first boulder (look at Cubie's video) without sliders. Even with my truck on 33s and lift, I used my rear high clearance bumper and literally every skid - gas tank, tcase, mid, IFS... I think the only thing I didn't use was my bumper, but I still had to winch with it once, so I guess that counts anyways.

Notes from memory on the creek crossings for my reference later, or if you follow the GPX:
- First crossing - go straightish across, then hug the shoreline on the opposite side. If you go left immediately and beeline to the exit area, it's way too deep. Same on the way back - on the way back stay left then cut right straight across at the end.
- Second crossing - there's a bunch of ways to go. Go across, then stay left as long as you can and take every bypass you can. On the way back, make sure you stay right as long as you can until you're forced to cross. Go slow if you're unsure - on our way back in the dark we missed a bypass - Brian was leading and if he hadn't been being careful and going slow, he would have been floating downstream. We ended up reversing in the creek crossing and taking a bypass we didn't see first glance. A crossing in reverse is a first to me, and is definitely not worth repeating.
- Third crossing - Easy straight shot, but on the way in, there's a left and right way up - the right way deeper at the end. It was about at the top of my 33s. On the way back, that right way is the one straight out of the campsite at the sandbars. The campsite after the third crossing is also where the best campsite is.

This trail has by far the most water in general and the most deep crossings I've ever encountered. Don't go if it's rained recently, and take every crossing bypass you can, even on the trail. They're there for a reason. I probably put a nautical mile on my truck over this trip from all the crossings.

 

Well this may not be the trip for me then water is my arch nemisis I dare not loose to again
JK I'll do it I just need to protect my intake with something so history doesn't repeat it's self.

 

@TacoAlaMode

https://youtu.be/sEo16wPHdn0

 

Compared to some of the rides this one is easy, you can do it with no issues I'm sure

 

That depth and amount of water crossings scares me Just need to protect my air intake since the inlet is pretty damn exposed

 

Hydrolock? That's shitty. I was a touch concerned at the first crossing running stock height but it was fine.

Edit: running 265 75 16 and watched the lines of people in front closer to my height

 

Yep 7:30 hrs from home. I'd of been the biggest truck out there if I'd of come on 35s and much more lift than most of who I saw out there. I'd of probably followed Jeff into the cave.

 

Just gotta go slow

 

forget all that water. And the mud.

 

Water crossings are not bad, all of them had rock bottoms and wasn't really a lot of mud unless you chose to go through it.

This is what is under all the water