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I want to share some pics from a wheeling trip I did on Saturday with a family member and a couple of friends.
This adventure started east of a ghost town called Como, which sits in the Pine Nut Mountains of northern Nevada. We wanted to try to get to Como but weren't sure what the trail conditions would be like. As it turned out, trail conditions were...interesting.
Shortly after turning off the highway, it became apparent that mud was in our future.
Not an issue on this particular puddle however, as we decided to take a little detour around it and check out an old town site called Thompson. This was a copper mine that was active from 1911-1920.
After spending a little time checking out the place, we hopped back in our rigs and began our very muddy approach to the Pine Nut range.
This was a "dry" lake that we passed. Not so dry right now...it was covered by a layer of snow over a layer of ice.
After several miles of mud, mud and more mud, the trail started to get snowier.
We were following another vehicle's tracks for a while, but eventually we reached a spot where that vehicle had turned around and we were on virgin snow.
Then things started to get a little interesting. This is one of those "pics don't do it justice" pics. The road to Como is typically pretty easy going. But after some recent storms, portions of the trail were extremely washed out. This particular section used to have a large culvert running underneath the trail. But the trail around both sides of the culvert had gotten washed away. There was enough snow covering the culvert that I didn't really see what I was driving into. But my truck fell right through the snow and the ice underneath it, smacking my frame rail and rear bumper in the process.
Our group of rigs wasn't fully armored so we decided to fill in the holes so that nobody's truck got damaged (yours truly on the right...can you tell we're having fun?).
Everyone got through it OK.
This adventure started east of a ghost town called Como, which sits in the Pine Nut Mountains of northern Nevada. We wanted to try to get to Como but weren't sure what the trail conditions would be like. As it turned out, trail conditions were...interesting.
Shortly after turning off the highway, it became apparent that mud was in our future.
Not an issue on this particular puddle however, as we decided to take a little detour around it and check out an old town site called Thompson. This was a copper mine that was active from 1911-1920.
After spending a little time checking out the place, we hopped back in our rigs and began our very muddy approach to the Pine Nut range.
This was a "dry" lake that we passed. Not so dry right now...it was covered by a layer of snow over a layer of ice.
After several miles of mud, mud and more mud, the trail started to get snowier.
We were following another vehicle's tracks for a while, but eventually we reached a spot where that vehicle had turned around and we were on virgin snow.
Then things started to get a little interesting. This is one of those "pics don't do it justice" pics. The road to Como is typically pretty easy going. But after some recent storms, portions of the trail were extremely washed out. This particular section used to have a large culvert running underneath the trail. But the trail around both sides of the culvert had gotten washed away. There was enough snow covering the culvert that I didn't really see what I was driving into. But my truck fell right through the snow and the ice underneath it, smacking my frame rail and rear bumper in the process.
Our group of rigs wasn't fully armored so we decided to fill in the holes so that nobody's truck got damaged (yours truly on the right...can you tell we're having fun?).
Everyone got through it OK.
