The Rubicon Trail

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I've always found the off-road adventures interesting although have not participated much myself. Perhaps someday. I always enjoy learning something new.

Anyways, I found this video on the Rubicon Trail "bucket list checked off" entertaining. If you are an off-road enthusiast, you may find this interesting as well.

Part 1. https://youtu.be/0lAxSykTojo

Part 2. https://youtu.be/3CrLlNkEBZU

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Mojave Desert Jeep Trip. https://youtu.be/_Q7fkJPZg1I


Perhaps the best treasure in eastern California's Mojave National Preserve is a pair of tracks that cross the middle of it. This famous trail is the Mojave Road, one of the early routes that brought American pioneers to California. This trail is unique in that for most of its 138 mile stretch it is in much the same condition as the pioneers would have found it, and a lot of the trail passes through country that is virtually unchanged since prehistoric times. The road bisects the Preserve, wandering from waterhole to waterhole, and is mostly a 4-wheel-drive trail.

The Mojave Road was a main wagon trail for only a relatively short time, two decades after the civil war. When the railroads came, the railways created an easier route to the south complete with oases on the bitter-dry deserts. While it was used, the Mojave Road was a route plagued by hostile Indians, a lack of water, long stretches of sand and rough hill climbs. For caravans of travelers and a handful of soldiers, it was a proving ground that brought out the best and the worst of them.

To those who took the Mojave Road by foot, horse and wagon, and the few men stationed along it to defend it, this uncommonly beautiful country was a peculiar form of hell. Dry and desolate, it was and still is. Especially to those men and women coming from the lush forests of the east and south, the desert land was a barren expanse to be barely tolerated before arriving in the Promised Land of California. It is still a dangerous stretch of road.



Read more: https://www.desertusa.com/desert-tra...#ixzz5cWuvPKXk

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First Time Off-Road Basics on Burns Canyon Trail https://youtu.be/r5QtQE4dKg8