Old Flowers Road & Moody Hill
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client wished to drive his side-by-side on Old Flowers road - but it is
a formal county road and off-highway vehicles are not allowed (street
plated vehicles only). He jumped in with me to see the condition of it.
We could have turned around at the west end and traveled back east on
it, we decided to drop south to county road 44H and head east with it
and make a stop at Moody Hill. While on Moody Hill, the large tree across a dead end spur was still across the trail. Tracks in the grass where people are driving around it. It's a nice day and we have time - let's pull it off of the trail. The task took about 25 minutes. Temps down in town were rather warm but temps in the mountains were perfect. Rain was west of us much of the day but it never moved east and we stayed dry. |
| Stats - full day |
| Old Flowers Road Stats |
| Early day clouds - they're growing - but they stayed west of us and we stayed dry. |
| Old car - front fenders to the left. |
| This area was wiped by fire many years ago. The new growth pine and aspen tree is coming along. |
| Pine trees are in the two to four feet tall range. |
| Several streams were flowing. I think these are spring fed as the show has melted off for this area. |
| This lumbering tubo-prop looked to be on training flights. It passed over a couple times. |
| Nearing the western end of the main Old Flowers Road. The rain clouds stayed west of us all day. |
| We're on County Road 44-H just west of Pennock Pass. This offers a nice view to the west. Panorama Click for a larger size |
| Moody Hill Trail I did not adjust the GPS to record trackpoints at 0.1 miles so the default of 1.1 miles was in play. The track line is rather course for this trail with only 8 data points recorded. |
| Marks from folks driving around the tree that fell across the trail. This was on a dead-end spur that had nothing of significance beyond the treefall (it's not a thru-trail, there is no stellar view to enjoy, no desirable campsite to use), but as it was a trail, folks [me included] want to see what's down the trail. To minimize off-trail use, let's pull the tree aside. The task took all of 25 or 30 minutes. |
| Anchor the jeep to a sturdy (though dead) tree. |
| Two pulls to complete the task. The first was connected to the trunk near its higher / thinner section. |
| Second pull connected at its lower / thicker section. |
| Nicely off of the trail. |
