TeamCF Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Went out to Tillamook State Forest yesterday. It was awsome. The rocks out there will hammer your rig into submission. And they have new maps at the shell station. I ran all of the #4 power line trails both ways. (Except the double black diamond part on E section) And went over and ran #20 (Hoodraiser I think?). Snow up at the top of that one. There were a few others but I forget the names. Wanted to do #13 Cedar Tree, but the forest road to it was closed till 2009 for logging. Looked like a nice long twisty trail. Would have liked to find a pit to play in but never did. Neat how they have all the trails set up like at a ski area so you can just look at the map and plan your route around the forest. You have the green circle trails = easy, the blue square trails = more difficult (those were the ones I was hitting all day) And the one thru three black diamond trails = hard core rock crawling, winch required. Helped a Sheriff fix a big oil leak on his quad (My ATV permit payed for itself at that moment as well), Got nicknamed "The Klingon" by a group of Jeeps and Yotas that I ended up hangin with half way through. They were amazed I stayed with them. Light weight and good line picking gets me through. The fact I love to bash the rocker panels helps a bit as well. Most of the trails out there have big waterbars that I was scraping bottom over, and Powerline C had a lot of tight rooted and rocky areas that tear up sheetmetal. But I was having so much fun I just didn't care. Even when I almost rolled it coming around a tight left downhill turn over a rock ledge (which amazingly I was able to make it up as well, not without underside damage though) the left front dropped, right rear came up, and I could see the ground coming towards the drivers window, nailed the gas and rolled out of it though. Get too cocky with the Soob's low center of gravity and it'll get ya in trouble. They will roll, mine almost did. Funny thing is I was giggling like a school girl right after it. Guess it was more fun than freaky. Hit it the same way later and did it right, with no scary moments. Good fun first time out to TSF. Now hitting Goat is just not going to be as much fun. Stayed out there til about 3 or so. Got to run each trail several times and only burned about 1/4 tank of gas. Covered about 70 or so trail miles. I got some crappy pics on my phone. Can see St. Helens barely in this one. Didn't get any good pics of the good parts of the trails. Was too busy driving them to take pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chazmataz Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 OH MAN, you went on a saturday. sounds like you went all over. nice pics bud sounds like and looks like a good time was had. we'll have to trek down there on a sunday and i'll bring my grey sooby, it hasn't been back down there in about 3 years. i guess i'll need to get a new map too, mine might be out dated by now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooinater Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 looks like it was a fun trip! one day i'll go down to tsf and run the crushers. it's on my list of places to wheel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeamCF Posted April 15, 2008 Author Share Posted April 15, 2008 OH MAN, you went on a saturday. sounds like you went all over. nice pics bud sounds like and looks like a good time was had. we'll have to trek down there on a sunday and i'll bring my grey sooby, it hasn't been back down there in about 3 years. i guess i'll need to get a new map too, mine might be out dated by now. Yeah I went to meet up with some Jeeps and Yotas so the saturday was a strange day for me to go. Ended up with bad timing though and half of them didn't even show. Had a blast though. We will have to go sometime. I'm itching to hit it up again. Hopefully after a little more thawing. Then a few more trails will be open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeamCF Posted April 15, 2008 Author Share Posted April 15, 2008 looks like it was a fun trip! one day i'll go down to tsf and run the crushers. it's on my list of places to wheel. There are alot of nice just wheelable with a Soob trails. (If you don't mind some bashed parts) And I hear alot of nice hardcore crawler trails. One is even named Little Rubicon. I took a look at it and it looks pretty nasty. And it's only considered a double black diamond. There are two triple black diamond trails I saw on the map. So yeah you could have fun with whatever rig you take. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoobyclimbs Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 Right on:headbang: TSF is at my back door...They are very soob friendly trails...I always get funny looks when they see my outback wheelin there...(ya know the big eyes through the goggles/wtf) I think I've done about 90% of the more difficult trails there without any real issues. We have to do a soob trail run down there.... I was taking my son out hiking to the top of Kings mtn Sun....pretty tough for a 4yr old...5miles round trip and around 2500ft elev. gain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeamCF Posted April 15, 2008 Author Share Posted April 15, 2008 Yeah all the "more difficult/blue square" ones I could get to were no problem, few challenging scrapey spots but overall perfect for Soob wheelin'. Couldn't get to Cedar Tree as they are logging it till 2009. and Hog's Back is still snowed in. Some on the other end that I just didn't hit cause of the time. And running miles thru the woods just for one 1/2 mile trial. Have to hit them all just because one day though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooinater Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 There are alot of nice just wheelable with a Soob trails. (If you don't mind some bashed parts)And I hear alot of nice hardcore crawler trails. One is even named Little Rubicon. I took a look at it and it looks pretty nasty. And it's only considered a double black diamond. There are two triple black diamond trails I saw on the map. So yeah you could have fun with whatever rig you take. i know there is supposed to be a lot of really good trails down there. my buddy, that i was in the marine corp with, lives down in portland and wheels there all the time. i've been meaning to go for years. but something has always gotten in the way. like the last several times were mainly because i didn't have enough spare soob parts to lug out there, so that i could drive home... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeamCF Posted April 16, 2008 Author Share Posted April 16, 2008 i know there is supposed to be a lot of really good trails down there. my buddy, that i was in the marine corp with, lives down in portland and wheels there all the time. i've been meaning to go for years. but something has always gotten in the way. like the last several times were mainly because i didn't have enough spare soob parts to lug out there, so that i could drive home... hehe... Just don't break it! I am bad in the fact I never take spare parts (can't afford to buy them when I need them, let alone ahead of time... ). Take alot of tools. But the closest thing I take to parts is some bailing wire, huge zip ties, large hose clamps, and a roll of duct tape. I have no lift, no giant tires, and an open diff though so the common breaks are less likely to get me. Kinda gettin' worried about that clutch these days though. And I dont force trails. Got some sort of self preservation thing that kicks in. Tells me "you're gonna break it if you hit that trail." So I go around. Kind of a fun killer sometimes but if I break it I may not be able to drive it at all for months. :-\ That would be the big fun killer. I'm sure if ya came down and a few of us planned to go out as well. If ya broke we could find a way to get your Soob fixed to get home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooinater Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 not any time soon. I won't drive that far with out the spare parts. I know i'll break something. I know i'll push my limits and the vehicles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeamCF Posted April 16, 2008 Author Share Posted April 16, 2008 not any time soon. I won't drive that far with out the spare parts. I know i'll break something. I know i'll push my limits and the vehicles. Well when you do plan a trip let us all know. I'm sure we can get a group going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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