Yankee Hill Explorations

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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.

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Bumping up the road.  The last time that Heather and I went up here, this road was full of water.

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Great views of the mountains up on Yankee Hill.


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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.

20160619_175044Down 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.

Barbour Fork with Rising Sun

20160619_100132Andrew and I went up to Barbour Fork outside of Idaho Springs to do a trail run with the Rising Sun 4×4 Club.  We had a total of 19 rigs come out for this Father’s Day run.  What a great turnout!
20160619_100227Everyone airing down in the staging area at the start of the trail.  I was the only mini truck present although there was a 2nd gen 4runner so at least there was one frame brother along.

20160619_101534_Richtone(HDR)Up the trail!

20160619_101545_Richtone(HDR)Rigs behind me.

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20160619_105318_Richtone(HDR)The lineup in one of the meadows.


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20160619_114232_Richtone(HDR)My truck on the way up the hill.

20160619_132414Lunch stop at the upper meadow.

20160619_134045_Richtone(HDR)A wonderful blue Toyota 40 series.

20160619_134222_Richtone(HDR)Zepp had to improvise a spring hanger after his 60 series Land Cruiser had a spring hanger failure.

20160619_134347_Richtone(HDR)Everyone having a good time at lunch.

20160619_134434Gorgeous meadow.

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20160619_142143_Richtone(HDR)Heading down the trail.