Rising Sun 4×4 Club – Page 3 – Not Your Average Engineer

September 10, 2016July 9, 2020

Second Annual Mega Magnolia Transect

After last year’s rousing success of the Mega Magnolia Transect, I decided to run it again this year and add some additional trails. Another Rising Sun 4×4 Club member joined me. If this keeps up, maybe next year we’ll have three Toyotas on the run!

Our first trail of the trip was Kingston Peak Trail. The flag at the rock house looking over Loch Lomond recently was replaced.

Our two trusty trail rigs out for a big adventure.

Coming down the steep section of trail on Kingston Peak before the shelf road on the north side.

Looking toward the continental divide at the start of the shelf road on Kingston Peak.

The Albino Rhino on the trail between Kingston Peak and Yankee Hill.

Coming through the rocky section that sometimes becomes a creek. Andrew and I went through this in the spring.

Heading through some aspens back up to the Kingston Peak trail to head toward Magnolia.

Heading up Jenny Creek Trail toward Rollinsville Pass.

Getting back on the main Rollinsville Pass East trail from Jenny Creek.

At the lake below Rollins Pass.

At the top of the road toward Rollin Pass.

Maybe someday the road all the way over will be reopened.

Some of the old mining equipment on West Magnolia Road

Old ore cart?

The Mega Magnolia Transect was a success once again! We did a lot of miles off road and visited some of my favorite trails. Can’t wait until I do it again!

September 7, 2016July 9, 2020

Posing at the Rising Sun 4×4 Meeting

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Justin and I took a minute to pose The Mighty Red Chili on The Albino Rhino before the monthly Rising Sun 4×4 Club meeting at Stevinson Toyota West.

After the meeting, Travis’s Honey Badger got involved in our light show. There’s never a dull moment for us!

September 5, 2016July 9, 2020

The Mine Below McClellan Mountain

The Honeybadger and the Albino Rhino went on a little adventure over McLellan Mountain to check out the old mine down the shelf road that is inaccessible ten or eleven months out of the year. Usually that north-facing shelf road has a big chute of snow blocking it.

Looking back up the mountain. The switchbacks coming down are pretty tight in a few places and in one place there is a very tippy section.

Peering into the old mine tunnel. This one was gated off in such a way that bats can still access the tunnels and shafts underground but that humans can’t.

Down the drainage further is I-70. It’s a bit surprising that the road was never connected down to other access roads below. Maybe this road was made to connect over to the mill at the Santiago Mine in Argentine basin. Even if that was the case, they would have only been able to haul ore out a couple months a year.