Farmington NM Trails
BusaDave9
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I just got back from ChokeCherry Canyon also know as Glade Run. These are trails just north of Farmington NM. It's about an hour south of my home in Durango Colorado. My favorite trails are actually high in the mountains north of Durango but those trails are already covered in several feet of snow. So this time of the year I head south and lower in elevation. They get very little snow in Farmington so I can four wheel there in the winter.
This place is like a Mini-Moab. Lots of slickrock and rock formations.
Lots of these trails are insanely extreme. This is the place to take a custom buggy. I am amazed by some of the tracks that go up huge ledges. In this next picture you can see I took the easy way up. The buggies go strait up those ledges.
I modified this next picture with HDR software.
My passenger preferred to walk even when I didn't need spotting.
One thing that really aggravated me is I was out of CO2. I could not air down my tires because I couldn't air them back up.
I stuck to the trails I thought I could keep my CJ upright. But there were lots of scary sections. I chickened out often. I ran into a lot of dead ends. We often said that we could continue if we had a buggy. This is not the best place for a top heavy CJ.
This is also where my avatar was shot.
Hey, guess what? I made it back without rolling my Jeep. More surprising than that I didn't even break anything. THAT's what really surprised me.
This place is like a Mini-Moab. Lots of slickrock and rock formations.
Lots of these trails are insanely extreme. This is the place to take a custom buggy. I am amazed by some of the tracks that go up huge ledges. In this next picture you can see I took the easy way up. The buggies go strait up those ledges.
I modified this next picture with HDR software.
My passenger preferred to walk even when I didn't need spotting.
One thing that really aggravated me is I was out of CO2. I could not air down my tires because I couldn't air them back up.
I stuck to the trails I thought I could keep my CJ upright. But there were lots of scary sections. I chickened out often. I ran into a lot of dead ends. We often said that we could continue if we had a buggy. This is not the best place for a top heavy CJ.
This is also where my avatar was shot.
Hey, guess what? I made it back without rolling my Jeep. More surprising than that I didn't even break anything. THAT's what really surprised me.
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