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An optional obstacle
I recall this from years ago. I didn't think I had been on this trail -
but many years ago I joined a group and we came to this obstacle on the
trail - apparently not running the full trail.
This obstacle was of note as there is a tall step / waterfall at the
very top of this incline that could be traveled - but for most vehicles
it would be a winch-out obstacle. One guy in the group had added
under-carriage protection to his ?Toyota pickup? and really wanted to
run the obstacle. Two or three jeeps drove around to the high side of
the obstacle and pulled winch lines in anticipation to pull his truck
over the lip and up top.
He drove up the obstacle as far as he could
and his truck was fairly vertical. At this point winch lines were being
connected to his truck. I was standing on a rock somewhat near the
driver's door of his truck. There was a ten or fifteen foot* drop
between the rocks I was standing on and the side of their truck.
In the truck with him was his wife and newborn baby (first child??). She
hit her limit and tapp'd-out. She un-strapped the newborn from the baby carrier and handed
the child out the driver's window of the truck to me. I'm thinking -
the kid is WAY safer strapped in the baby carrier than being handed to
another person, standing at the edge of a precarious rock, with a ten
or fifteen foot drop onto hard rock.
I recall not dropping said infant
and turning around to pass the kid to someone else. Two or three jeeps
pulled that pickup up and over the waterfall lip. The waterfall lip
would be to the right edge of this picture somewhat behind me.
The blue jeep will drive up this incline but then turn before the waterfall lip for a different path down.
* As my mind recalls. Perhaps only eight feet. But enough if an infant is dropped - bad things to happen.
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