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It had been a few years since I visited Wheeler Lake. Trapdoor had not been there at all. Just seems like there was always something else to do. Last summer we fixed that problem.
We were already into the last weeks of September so we knew we were lucky it wasn’t snowed in yet. I’m happy to say that all the horrible things I said about that trail are still true. Or was that wonderful things I said. I guess it depends on who’s telling the story.
Trapdoor and I got an early start. Must have been around nine. We crossed over Hoosier Pass south of Breckenridge and turned on the first road going right. That took us past the Montgomery Reservoir and through the mine property on the west side of the lake. The fun stuff started immediately.
We took our time to be sure we didn’t damage anything and just maintained a very slow pace all the way through. Besides big rocks that keep jumping out of the ground to ding the underside, the trail has some nasty brush on both sides to work on the paint. This is not a good place to take a shiny new stock vehicle unless you just want to give it more of a “used” look.
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