The art of making new trails

[Hell-RZR]

Ok, I know some of you guys just clear out old logging trails and slap a number and name up but what about the one's that don't stem from logging trails? How do you do it? Do you use GPS or just walk it and clear it or simply know the area good enough to ride it out 'til you come out somewhere?

Just curious

[JB800]

Ok, I know some of you guys just clear out old logging trails and slap a number and name up but what about the one's that don't stem from logging trails? How do you do it? Do you use GPS or just walk it and clear it or simply know the area good enough to ride it out 'til you come out somewhere?

Just curious

All the above...... we have walked through till we found other logging roads and on a couple of occasions we've had to resort to the GPS to see which way and how much further to go to the nearest trail. If Dudley or Mark are around they know the area like the back of their hands and they just tell us which way to go 

[Hell-RZR]

Thank you for all of your hard work so we can play!

[Sir C-gar]

ditto to what JB800 posted HellRzr!!

Could tell many stories..but one funny one comes to mind about how I finished one particular trail.  I had dug/shoveled the washout on 113 just before the rock bridge for 2 straight Saturdays.  FINALLY got the path wide enough for a Rhino to get through and across.  So across I go.

Only problem....daylight was fading...and nobody had ever been across the rock bridge.  Hmmm. 

I got across.  But was is now a well worn path after you get across..was then ruff...I mean...RUFFFFFF.  I had to winch 3 times...cut 5-6 trees..and by the time I go to the top...it was "dark:thirty". 

Hmmm.  NOOOOOOOOO way was I going BACK down and across that bridge by myself in the dark.  I hadn't started building T112 yet..so that wasn't an option out. So short of hunkering down with the coyottes...snakes..skeeters...and other things that go bump in the night (did I mention snakes)...I knew I HAD to find an old logging road and hack my way out somehow.

Thank goodness for HID lights on the Rhino..luck...Ontario machette...and of course Stihl...as if there hadn't been a trail...I was going to make like a D-5 dozer that particular night and build one up the side up the mountain to get back "home".