What Trail Condition Do You Fear The Most?

[4xFar Adventures]

Yup, that'll do it :) My starter was the latest victim of a mud bath.

 

[Byron Eby]

Asphalt.

 

[SLO Rob]

Ha! @Byron Eby

 

[O.Dfj]

Asphalt.

Dont lie you fear everything but the mall parking lot.

 

[boehml]

Deep mud has got to be the worst, no idea of how far it sinks. After that, steep ascents is close on the list.

 

[AlysonH]

I use to get nervous on ascents when all you see is sky, but earlier this year a slick, muddy trail going downhill into a 90 degree turn at the bottom claimed the number 1 spot.

 

[ExploreDesert]

I don't fear the mud, but definitely despise it and try to avoid it at all costs.

Off camber while on a shelf road is my fear. The vehicle always feels like it's worse then it really is.

 

[Daniel Etter]

I hated the random very soft sand patches when I was on the beach. Now I hate mud that has a thin crust of dried earth that breaks when weight is placed on it and instantly bogs vehicles. It suctions the vehicle down so breaking free is very difficult and tires won't clear properly.

 

[southdiver1]

Landmines.... yeah, definitely landmines.

 

[MarkW]

I would say muddy ascents or descents with little or no control probably top my list especially on shelf roads/trails. Second would be off camber but my pucker alarm goes off well before I am really in any danger. I do feel a lot better about them since I moved most of my tools and gear from a case on the rack to a drawer system in the cargo area though.

 

[Fatsquatch]

All of my trail experience has been here in the midwest and the odds of getting yourself killed on a trail ride around here are pretty low unless you're just obscenely stupid or actively trying to die. So, I'd say shelf roads are what worry me the most. I've never driven on anything like them and knowing that in places like Black Bear Pass a single mistake can get you dead is a real concern.

 

[Unplanned Overland]

this would get me wet or dry

 

[Fatsquatch]

this would get me wet or dry

Exactly. One slip and you've just earned yourself a toe tag. My butt puckers just looking at that pic.

 

[Unplanned Overland]

Love this, just imagining saying to wife, "jump out and get a picture of this", crazy ledge

 

[O.Dfj]

this would get me wet or dry

Thats a whole lot of nope

 

[offroadohio]

If I had to pick one it would the ascents. I'm generally okay if there's a whole group of us and I've watched others do it butt I tried to avoid anything that gives me legitimate chance of flipping over backwards and a rolling to the bottom without anything to stop me

 

[Fatsquatch]

Pretty sure that pic is part of the Telluride side of Black Bear. The "I don't wanna die" part of me wants to skip it and turn around at the summit haha.

 

[WJ - Firefly]

Love this, just imagining saying to wife, "jump out and get a picture of this", crazy ledge

My wife would jump out and never agree to get back in!

 

[Young Satchel]

ICE. I do a lot of winter adventuring and have encountered a couple pretty terrifying no-traction situations caused by shelves of ice buried under deep, untracked snow.

 

[Robby]

Now it's mud, after me and @S.L.O_X had to get new alternators and @Mad Garden Gnome had to save us. Thank god one truck worked after that! Still finding that silty stuff everywhere...every. where.

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It will never go away...I still have I mud in my engine compartment after a year and a half. Mojave mud is bad...js