After going up Barbour Fork with Rising Sun 4×4 Club, Andrew and I went over to Yankee Hill to do some more 4x4ing. We started by going up Cumberland Gulch from Fall River Road. Andrew took over driving for a while to see how much fun a Toyota minitruck really is.
Bumping up the road. The last time that Heather and I went up here, this road was full of water.
Great views of the mountains up on Yankee Hill.
Coming down the north side of Yankee Hill, we found the water bar on one of the forest roads had gone out, diverting half the creek down the road bed.
Down the flooded road we went!
We gingerly picked our way down the road bed in low gear (using 4.70:1 gears). I hate driving through a bunch of water due to environmental reasons but there wasn’t another way down. We made it through just fine, aired up the tires on Apex Road, and headed back down to Golden.