UTAH (and Surrounding Areas) BS Thread

Rattle snake sounds fun! Need to place myself in Utah for some of these good trips. It's just a bit too far to bop down for a casual day run.

 

Actually, proper Rattlesnake is more difficult than Mineral Basin, by a good amount. Its just that RS has a lot of bypasses, allowing most to "run" it. When I take people up, I take them through all the bypasses, as I cant even do RS proper (well, the truck is capable, but I'd need ideal weather, spotter, lots of patience, and a bit of luck). Officially, if you take all the bypasses, does that mean you actually did the trail, or not?

For example:
The step thats about 3 feet high and at a 20* off camber is the trail, while the easy/level part on the right is the bypass.
The boulder garden is the official trail, while the trail to the left is a bypass.
Hugging the rock wall forcing you to crawl the medium rocks is the trail, and to the left is a bypass.
Wayne's World is officially part of Rattlesnake.

Then there's a bunch of extra optional stuff thats even more difficult than listed above. (Some claim some of it isn't part of the trail, but officially part or not, once the trails been made, its going to get used)

When comparing the two, you have to remember that the original Rattlesnake followed the river bed, while Mineral Basin is an old miners trail that is still semi-maintained. When people took bypasses on RS, it chewed up the soft banks of the dried riverbed, sometimes making them lower than the original trail (and a lot easier in many places). The rockiest places are likely the closest to the original trail as you'd be able to find today.

 

^^this. The actual rattlesnake is by no means a mild trail, it's a rig destroyer. There have just been so many people that use the bypasses that they look like The main trail now. Some of the bypasses aren't very nice either, I'd honestly not recommend it to stock trucks unless they wanna get a bumper or rocker panel hung up.

You may be able to get through a large portion of the trail using bypasses and be just fine, but the 2 or 3 spots that get gnarly with no go around is all it takes. I'm not trying to scare anyone away!! I hope all of you come and enjoy 5 mile, there's tons out there for bone stock 2WD trucks and after we run rattlesnake I think we should go out to the quarry which is a fun trail that can get fast at times and anyone can make it. We could spend a whole week out there and I'd still have lots of long trails and routes to go run.

 

I like want it to be Sunday.

 

Lol I want it to be Saturday lol

 

Well, I work both days

 

When is your next day off ray?

 

Hard to say with all my school and work. I should be getting more free time starting April. I'm quitting one of my jobs because the one I liked more offered me my pick of shifts. I picked three graveyard shifts.

But after school is over at the beginning of May I'll be free practically any day as long as I don't pick up shifts.

 

ok so whoever is not on the UTAT group page, let me re-post here, tomorrow Sunday we will be meeting at the chevron on redwood and the lehi state street at 12pm to 12:30 or so. we are heading to 5 mile, onto Rattle Snake trail. let us know. and see you guys tomorrow.

 

If anyone is coming down from hill afb/ogden/layton area let me know. We'll be convoying it down a little after 11.

 

Well ran rattlesnake today and it was nice and dry just FYI have fun guys

 

thanks man glad you had a blast. post up some pics.... if any

 

I have been posting in the CO threads trying to find someone to go hit a few trails where there isn't so much snow the week of april 1. I was thinking of heading out to Moab, but never been so I do t know where I would go, and I am still trying to recruit some other people so I am not wheeling alone. Any takers/advice?

 

I'd help you if I could, but I've never been down there.

 

here are some pics from the trip up rattlesnake:








and a guy in a suzuki just messing around up at Wayne's World lol

 

Nice haha it's funny how no one has posted pics here from our trip. All the pics are on utah tacoma's. ill post up some soon

 

Ive been super lazy now im at work haha

 

Anyone know where i can get a cab mount chop around slc?

 

Did one of your guys lose a shifter knob?

 

haha