Oct 10, 2024
This trip was to the Nebraska National Forest as a shakedown for the Taxa TigerMoth I recently purchased and for some off-roading.. It was a 3-day and 2-night trip.
For this trip, since it was a shakedown for the TigerMoth, I decided to stay and an established campsite just outside of the Forest. I arrived at the campground around 3PM and got all setup. I then explored the campsite on foot to check the complex out. I made dinner about 5PM and settled in for the night.
As the sun went down, I chilled by my fake fire and slung down a few ice waters.. Went to bed early as I was planning on an early start to hit the trails in the Forest.
That was pretty much day 1. Arriving, getting set up and checking out the campground..
Map of the area: (the teal colored tracks are new trails that I recoded for upload to onX.. I was able to get 3 new trails recorded and I hit several trails that were already mapped.
I woke up early, about 5am and drank some coffee by my fake fire until about 7AM when I hit the trails. The areas trails are mainly two track with loose sand, some of which was fairly deep. There was also areas of loose dirt and sand mixed.. I aired down to 18psi and hit the 1st trail of the day.
The first 4 or 5 miles of this trail was narrow with deep sand that had numerous switchbacks. A few of these switchbacks had loose and deep sand with sloping berms. These berms put me at extreme off-camber angles. On one, I was at 20 degrees and on another I was at 18 degrees. Pretty cool little trail and I had a blast on it.. I didn't get any photos of these as I did not want to stop because of the angels and because the sand was soft and deep.
I had already put the Bronco into Sand mode using the G.O.A.T selector and it performed like a champ!
This trail had a cool lookout tower. The stairway to the tower was gated and locked so I could not get to the top but still pretty cool..
Later in the day I went down a previously unmapped trail and it was a blast. This trail was a two track but the tracks were very hard to see due to grass and weed overgrowth on them. This trail also had massive ruts and washouts to the sides in certain areas which were also very hard to see until you were right up on them. I am generally a slow poke so I saw them all before any chance of disaster hit. I'll leave a note in the onX trail report for others to be very cautious. One area had what was about a 5-6 foot deep rut where if a wheel went in it, you'd probably tip over.
This was my favorite trail of the day. Out in the absolute middle of nowhere with nothing but prairies for as far as the eye could see..
All out of photo room (I wish we could add more than 15 per post) so I'll continue in the next post.
For this trip, since it was a shakedown for the TigerMoth, I decided to stay and an established campsite just outside of the Forest. I arrived at the campground around 3PM and got all setup. I then explored the campsite on foot to check the complex out. I made dinner about 5PM and settled in for the night.
As the sun went down, I chilled by my fake fire and slung down a few ice waters.. Went to bed early as I was planning on an early start to hit the trails in the Forest.
That was pretty much day 1. Arriving, getting set up and checking out the campground..
Map of the area: (the teal colored tracks are new trails that I recoded for upload to onX.. I was able to get 3 new trails recorded and I hit several trails that were already mapped.
I woke up early, about 5am and drank some coffee by my fake fire until about 7AM when I hit the trails. The areas trails are mainly two track with loose sand, some of which was fairly deep. There was also areas of loose dirt and sand mixed.. I aired down to 18psi and hit the 1st trail of the day.
The first 4 or 5 miles of this trail was narrow with deep sand that had numerous switchbacks. A few of these switchbacks had loose and deep sand with sloping berms. These berms put me at extreme off-camber angles. On one, I was at 20 degrees and on another I was at 18 degrees. Pretty cool little trail and I had a blast on it.. I didn't get any photos of these as I did not want to stop because of the angels and because the sand was soft and deep.
I had already put the Bronco into Sand mode using the G.O.A.T selector and it performed like a champ!
This trail had a cool lookout tower. The stairway to the tower was gated and locked so I could not get to the top but still pretty cool..
Later in the day I went down a previously unmapped trail and it was a blast. This trail was a two track but the tracks were very hard to see due to grass and weed overgrowth on them. This trail also had massive ruts and washouts to the sides in certain areas which were also very hard to see until you were right up on them. I am generally a slow poke so I saw them all before any chance of disaster hit. I'll leave a note in the onX trail report for others to be very cautious. One area had what was about a 5-6 foot deep rut where if a wheel went in it, you'd probably tip over.
This was my favorite trail of the day. Out in the absolute middle of nowhere with nothing but prairies for as far as the eye could see..
All out of photo room (I wish we could add more than 15 per post) so I'll continue in the next post.
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2023 Badlands 2 door in Hot Pepper Red 🌶️ 🌶️
2023 Badlands 2 door in Hot Pepper Red 🌶️ 🌶️
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