Wickenburg Mountains
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The August 4x4 Meetup was taking the Wickenburg Mountain trail from the Charles Wells book. Marcia had lasik surgery on her eyes the day before and didn't go along since she was supposed to avoid sunlight and dust for a couple weeks. The group started by meeting at the McDonalds in Wickenburg.
From there, Rob and Sharon took the lead and headed northeast on Constellation Road to the turnoff to the Wickenburg Mountains road. The road immediatly became more difficult than the simple graded road up to this point. Our first stop was Constellation City. Not much left anymore.
We drove on some shelf roads and down through a few washes before coming to a nice shady spot for lunch.
A few more miles and we arrived at the Isaac Bradshaw grave site.
We kept going and soon came to the end of the trail at Copperopolis Mine and Townsite. We did a little bit of exploring here and then turned around and headed back out the way we came in.
Steve led the group on the way back. At one point, we got stuck behind a cow that was walking in the road and would not move to the side. Finally, we got past him.
We reached the end of the trail along Constellation Road around 5pm. A handful of the members were driving up a washout as a challenging obstacle. Don "Jeepmasher" proved true to his name and broke his Jeep. His axle broke with the right rear tire flying off.
Ken and Amanda took Don back to his home in the valley to get a trailer. The rest of the group discussed the best way to get his jeep out. It was decided that we should get the Jeep out of the wash before it got dark. Kevin hooked up the winch and we pulled the vehicle up the hill to the main road. Everyone then headed back into town to wait for Don's return at McDonalds.
Dave hooks up a towstrap and helps Kevin and his Bronco pull.
Back with the trailer, we got it loaded onto the trailer and headed home. I made it home by midnight, so after all, it was a good trip.
The August 4x4 Meetup was taking the Wickenburg Mountain trail from the Charles Wells book. Marcia had lasik surgery on her eyes the day before and didn't go along since she was supposed to avoid sunlight and dust for a couple weeks. The group started by meeting at the McDonalds in Wickenburg.
From there, Rob and Sharon took the lead and headed northeast on Constellation Road to the turnoff to the Wickenburg Mountains road. The road immediatly became more difficult than the simple graded road up to this point. Our first stop was Constellation City. Not much left anymore.
We drove on some shelf roads and down through a few washes before coming to a nice shady spot for lunch.
A few more miles and we arrived at the Isaac Bradshaw grave site.
We kept going and soon came to the end of the trail at Copperopolis Mine and Townsite. We did a little bit of exploring here and then turned around and headed back out the way we came in.
Steve led the group on the way back. At one point, we got stuck behind a cow that was walking in the road and would not move to the side. Finally, we got past him.
We reached the end of the trail along Constellation Road around 5pm. A handful of the members were driving up a washout as a challenging obstacle. Don "Jeepmasher" proved true to his name and broke his Jeep. His axle broke with the right rear tire flying off.
Ken and Amanda took Don back to his home in the valley to get a trailer. The rest of the group discussed the best way to get his jeep out. It was decided that we should get the Jeep out of the wash before it got dark. Kevin hooked up the winch and we pulled the vehicle up the hill to the main road. Everyone then headed back into town to wait for Don's return at McDonalds.
Dave hooks up a towstrap and helps Kevin and his Bronco pull.
Back with the trailer, we got it loaded onto the trailer and headed home. I made it home by midnight, so after all, it was a good trip.
posted by Virgil | 8/25/2007
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