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Electric Baja
Anne and I suddenly found ourselves free for 3 days so we did a quick trip to Saline Valley. There was barely anyone at the springs, the weather was a perfect 80 in the day, 60 at night. Both North and South Passes have been heavily impacted by a storm so that is why the population level is very low.
For South Pass you need to be able to crawl at 2 to 3 mph with full torque to go up the Saline South Pass (heading out), you better have seriously low gears. I have a locker in the rear, without it I'd still be there. You have very steep uphills over boulder fields of which some boulders that you cannot go around, many so large you can not move them. So, if you're in a 1/2 ton or a rice burner your gears will likely be too high. Going in the South Pass (meaning downhill) any truck with good clearance and brakes will make it. You'll need good suspension articulation so if you are running airbags this may limit your control.
See this link for important Saline Pass washout condition (the pictures are not 3D so they don't nearly do justice to the conditions). Infinitely worse conditions than I have seen in my 29 years of Saline trips: http://forum.salinepreservation.org/post/South-Pass-100712-6040807
For South Pass you need to be able to crawl at 2 to 3 mph with full torque to go up the Saline South Pass (heading out), you better have seriously low gears. I have a locker in the rear, without it I'd still be there. You have very steep uphills over boulder fields of which some boulders that you cannot go around, many so large you can not move them. So, if you're in a 1/2 ton or a rice burner your gears will likely be too high. Going in the South Pass (meaning downhill) any truck with good clearance and brakes will make it. You'll need good suspension articulation so if you are running airbags this may limit your control.
See this link for important Saline Pass washout condition (the pictures are not 3D so they don't nearly do justice to the conditions). Infinitely worse conditions than I have seen in my 29 years of Saline trips: http://forum.salinepreservation.org/post/South-Pass-100712-6040807