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11-10-2008, 07:37 PM
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Has Anyone Hit Fordyce During The Winter?
I was thinking about going up to Fordyce shortly and was wondering at what point during the winter does the trail become un-passable? I know each winter will be different due to snow fall. I was just thinking about going to the first crossing from Eagle Lakes or maybe just going up to Signal Peak from Eagle Lakes.
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11-10-2008, 08:55 PM
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What is up with all these 9000 San Diego posts? Some places in the world we actually put our tops on in the winter, do some wheeling, and don't have time for 9000 posts on this webpage. Maybe you should all work on your Jeeps and hit the trail more.
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11-11-2008, 07:36 AM
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I'm sure if they had the same wheeling we had they'd be off the computer 
I haven't hit fordyce in the winter (yet) but have plenty of friends that look forward to it every year. Passable is relative, probably won't be easy so depends on how determined you are.
And in case you hadn't heard, Tahoe has released a DEIS. They are trying to shut down all over the snow travel in they entire forest, including fordyce.
If you have some time please send them a letter letting them know that you use the fordyce in the winter, if we don't complain we'll never get it opened again.
http://www.pirate4x4.com/letters/
http://www.sharetrails.org/letters-p...tter.php?id=31
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11-11-2008, 07:37 PM
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Hey now. The San Diego thread has been going since 2005. I was thinking it would be pretty funny if the OP deleted it. Doh!
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11-11-2008, 07:38 PM
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Hey! Where did you get that forged picture of you wheeling??? We type down here in SD...not wheel! 
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11-11-2008, 08:08 PM
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ekorb mi
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Hey, get back in yer own thread 
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11-11-2008, 11:27 PM
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Originally Posted by jclark50
What is up with all these 9000 San Diego posts? Some places in the world we actually put our tops on in the winter, do some wheeling, and don't have time for 9000 posts on this webpage. Maybe you should all work on your Jeeps and hit the trail more.
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We have weekly jeep get together parties down here in san diego where we all fix ours and eachothers jeeps after we hit the trails that weekend, and to get ready for the trails next weekend.
We actually put our tops up in the winter time and wheel too. Most of the time we can go most of the winter without our top or doors though. Just a perk of living in san diego.
But yep, 9000 posts since 2005. Nothing illegal about that.
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11-12-2008, 07:10 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jclark50
What is up with all these 9000 San Diego posts? Some places in the world we actually put our tops on in the winter, do some wheeling, and don't have time for 9000 posts on this webpage. Maybe you should all work on your Jeeps and hit the trail more.
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You guys have tops??? 
Aw, come on, we DO wheel sometimes. It's just that it takes a long time to clean the dirt and stuff out of our spinner wheels. Between that and our chrome-polishing parties, there's just not that much tiime left.
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11-12-2008, 02:35 PM
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What is this wheeling you speak of? I just collect Jeeps to show them off at the mall?
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11-12-2008, 07:29 PM
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I've done Fordyce in the winter. It'd depend how well your rig is set-up as to how far you can make it in and how late in the year you can go. Some rigs go pretty far through the trail, but those are mostly the buggies.
keep in mind that lockers that aren't selectable can make winter wheeling even harder).
The granite gets pretty slippery, and with ice/snow on it some of them are just not driveable without a winch. There are some go arounds. I've almost rolled a couple of times due to the snow.
There was about a foot of snow the last time I went.
Signal peak is a whole different beast - there is one section where the river crosses the road, with about a 30 foot waterfall straight off the road that is very nasty in the snow....my detroit rear caused my rear tires to comewithin about 2" of that ledge because they kept slipping the the snow on the downhill side. If my jeep had gone over it would have been totaled and been left there forever.
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11-19-2008, 03:06 PM
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