Homestead road Oct 2014
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I hear that the homestead road is in worse shape than usual due to the rain we've had and is currently impassable even with 4wd. Can anyone verify this? If anyone is interested I have this coming Friday off and would love to go put some work in on the road. Any takers? How about you, Red or Aaron Carter? I don't know much about road repair but have a vehicle that will get up to 5 people and a bunch of shovels out there. I know the road can be a touchy subject so I don't want to just go out there and start digging without input from some of you who put up routes and have done road work in the past. Thanks all! |
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Yes, I can confirm that what you hear is true, sadly. Unfortunately the road needs a lot more than a bunch of motivated folk with shovels. This road is in need of professional repairs and proper water management. The BLM and Game and Fish are working to obtain proper authorization to execute such repairs. Here's a some pictures I took on Saturday, 10-18-14. For reference, the pick tool you see in some of the ruts is approximately one meter in length. |
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My suby will make that no problem |
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marty funkhouser wrote:My suby will make that no problemPlease capture the action on a video camera! |
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Damn man looks like then crux crimp broke and turned your 5.12 proj into an unholy abomination. Thanks for engaging GFD and BLM, I know in the past such entities have been hard to get to play ball (something about wanting diesel fuel last year) and its great we have people on this. I spoke with Manny as well and he suggested I attend Concerned Climbers meetings to get informed and involved which sounds like a good plan. Thanks for putting some work on even if its pissing in the wind. |
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Were you able to make it through the road Luke? The pictures make it look pretty impassable. Would a high clearance 4x4 be able to make it? Thanks |
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No we were not able to make it through. We didn't even consider trying. The condition we saw it in on Saturday I do not think a standard 4x4 could make it up. It looked to me like rock crawlers and ATV's are what you needed. |
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Yesterday I decided I had to see for myself how bad the road was. I guess I thought I would just have mantastic testicles and be on TYD by noon. Well much to my disappointment Red was pretty spot on. The road is more washed out than I have ever seen it. There are very large exposed rocks, super loose gravel and dirt (loose to the point I fell on my ass just walking) and big giant holes just itching to get you stuck. |
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There is another way in. I bring it up, only because I foresee people looking for alternatives and I feel obligated to to warn people against trying it unless they are prepared for a very serious test of off-road skill in an isolated and dangerous setting. |
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The gate at the highway for the other road has been locked the last two years. (Haven't checked recently) It takes half the time to hike in to where it meets the road we are used to using if people want to hike in from the highway. However, this entire stretch from the highway to the third gate on the regular way in, is all private property. |
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It is probably a good thing they locked that gate.....unless someone tries to leave that way. That would suck a lot. I wonder if the road washed out? |