So Rubicon doesn’t sound as long as everyone makes it out to be. I’m planning a trip with a couple of guys for aug 23-25. Most of us are on 35s and at least have the rear locker. We should be fine from talking to others from work. Anything we should look out for?
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@Tetten glad y’all had some fun and good on you Andy for helping a buddy out. How many jeeps did y’all encounter?
We ran into probably 20+ jeeps in large groups coming in from the Tahoe side as we were leaving Thursday afternoon. We only saw 2 small groups coming in the opposite direction up to that point.
It would get really long if you get stuck behind another group if you are moving fast. We made it to Cadillac Hill in 6 hours, it's maybe around 85% of the way through the crawling part of trail before finding anyone else going the same direction as us.
We started the trail at 6AM on a Thursday, so if you are going on a weekend just count on traffic jams. We didn't really stop to watch each other or take videos, I took a couple pictures of my truck, that was it for "doing it for the gram" for us. The vast majority of the 8 hours we were crawling was spent with tires rolling, I don't even think we really stopped for lunch.
Like the Dusy, that trail would be very hard for anyone in a long wheel base vehicle on 33s with a single locker, hopefully anyone in your group with 33s is SWB