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cantdrive55 previously said:
How difficult is the trail? This would be my first real trail run...don't want to get in over my head.  |
The advantage of Cleghorn Road is that there is the "road" which is a graded dirt road that you could negotiate with a passenger car. There are also 4x4 bypasses that are fun to run in the FJ. If you're uncomfortable with a rougher portion of the bypass, you can stay on the "easy" road for a hundred meters or so untill the bypass crosses it again. Everyone has to start somewhere and this provides a way for you to pick and choose (to some extent) which trails you want to attempt. In this way a group can trail together and not necessarily all go over the rough spots. The last time I did it, a novice driver in a 4x2 made it ALL THE WAY on the bypass roads without suffering any trail damage. So it's not a horrible trail. On the same run, RICOVERDE's FJ scraped the side of a rock wall and he had some paint transfers and a dent on the left rear of his rig. This was Rick's second time down Cleghorn in as many weeks and he picked up trail damage.
Some drivers air-down for Cleghorn. I don't because I don't think it's necessary and pending the arrival of the new beadlock rims from Walker Evans (on order through All Pro) I am running on stock crap Bridgestone tires and stock FJ rims.
That's about all I can tell you.
