Do not follow tracks that you dont know where they go!

[Yamadoo04]

So we went up Nobletts yesterday and found some fun areas to ride. (first video) but we kinda got in an area that we couldn't find our way through the trees to the next meadow so we decided to follow the 2 snow covered tracks down the canyon. So we got to a couple sketchy areas so I decided to hike down the canyon a ways to see if we can get out the bottom. When I got back to the sleds we decied to try to go back up and see if we can get out that way. (Second video) When that didn't work because we just could not go back up the canyon we decided to just bite the bullet and follow the tracks and see if we can make it down the canyon. I heard last week about 2 guys that had to hike out near the nobletts and I am pretty sure this is the route they were on. I kept expecting to find 2 sleds near the bottom right before a big cliff and we would have to walk out from there. I knew where I was the entire time because of the Ski Tracks APP I use so I knew the absolute worst case would be to hike down the canyon to the truck and get the sleds another day. So we headed down the canyon and had to cross the creek 3 times to get out. (Third and forth videos) Along with treeks stumps and rocks that we had to go over to get out. Only videoed about half of the trip down so I missed a few of the real sketchy parts.

Lesson in all this is do not follow tracks that you dont know where they go. I am all for exploring and such but sometimes the tracks dont lead you to a simple way out.
Oh yeah anybody have a used REV front bumper and a blue hood for sale ?

First Video Fun in the trees
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFfHIl8ePc4



Second video trying to go back up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgIGRG9KG9Y



Third video heading down the canyon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEb3RbPzCI4



Forth Video get out the bottom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7xBUrdS3b0

 

[2Thetopp]

Hey, thats my secret trail I take my wife and kid down every season, now everybodies going to know about it, thanks. I'm sure you've never been so glad to see the parking lot, at least it wasn't snowing and blowing, that could've been alot worse. Thanks for posting, always taking a chance when dropping in to the unknown.

 

[flying pig]

Reinforces the old rule not to go down it unless you came up it first!

 

[89sandman]

i see two pluses to your little adventure.

first, at least you weren't the ones who had to make the trail. imagine having to go down all that crap and blaze your own way. much easier to at least have some kind of trail to follow.

second, now you don't have to worry about scratching up your sled anymore

 

[Mafesto]

Me & a buddy lived that story, except we HAD TO go back up.
Took about 5 hours to ascend what took less than 5 minutes to descend.
Best lesson learned so far!

 

[Yamadoo04]

Reinforces the old rule not to go down it unless you came up it first!

Or you have been there before and know there is another way out at the bottom.

 

[Yamadoo04]

i see two pluses to your little adventure.

first, at least you weren't the ones who had to make the trail. imagine having to go down all that crap and blaze your own way. much easier to at least have some kind of trail to follow.

second, now you don't have to worry about scratching up your sled anymore

Very ture. All though if those tracks were not there we probably would not have gone down that far in the first place. But i will never go down something again that i do not know what its like futher down. Stupid Stupid Stupid on our part.

 

[newmy1]

Looks fun but indeed hairy when you don't know what you are dropping. Two of us learned our lesson!! Thx for posting.


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[Yamadoo04]

Me & a buddy lived that story, except we HAD TO go back up.
Took about 5 hours to ascend what took less than 5 minutes to descend.
Best lesson learned so far!

Ya I have heard of people that went down stuff that they could not get back up and I was always confused on how that could happen but now I see how quickly it can turn ugly.

Does anybody know where the guys that hiked out a week ago or so were at? I am wondering if it was the same place we came down and they had blazed the trail.

 

[stum1967]

my stomach felt a little sick watching as you were going down. Reminded me of our little trip down a canyon that ended up being a over-nighter and then an 8 hour walk, but that's how we learn best.

 

[theletup]

Same boat a few weeks back except on the first STEEP deccent it didn't look so steep until I was broken bumper and bent pipe up against a giant tree about 100 yards down. My buddy thought I said go when i said don't go (couldn't see over the edge) and he ran right into my tunnel (bending it). We didn't have any tracks to follow to get out though! I've been riding a year longer than him so he always looks to me to lead him out so I kept saying "No worries dude we'll be fine. This has been logged before so there has to be a road further down." But inside I'm thinking "Oh f**k! Maybe there isn't another road at the bottom. I don't know if we're getting out of this one before it gets dark." About 3 hours later and lot's of stucks (snow was waist deep powder) trying to break trail out, we finally found that logging road that I kept telling him we would find! I was sweatin' bullets but trying to stay calm and not let him know that we might be effed. (I had two bivy sacks and survival gear in my bag!) lol. After we learned that there's a logging road to the bottom we now have gone back to our secret spot a few times since! One of our favorite spots that nobody has touched besides us all year. It's pretty sketchy getting back to it but it's amazing down in the canyon.

 

[Dobber1]

You should win a t-shirt!

 

[POWDR]

Let's go ride that. I know exactly where you were and I love that area. Must have been following my tracks. j/K. Good job getting out in one piece. Best stories come from out F ups. Good vids, glad you made it back ok

 

[polaris dude]

Almost lived that one before! Nothing worse than looking for a way out and not being sure if there is one! One time after a good dumping in the hills me, dad, and a friend were out and about having fun. We took a firetrail the friend knew well and got off and took a couple turns and eventually went down some pretty steep hills. It is hard to know at what point you need to just turn back and I think the phrase "slippery slope" applies here. Long story short we got towards the bottom which was completely blocked off with trees n rocks n such, so we had to climb up to the left a bunch to try to go back down past the blockage. It was fortunate at the time I was a solid 120lbs since I ended up riding my dad's up a part of it due to the fact he was 100lbs heavier than me and trenched so bad.

Something I started carrying with me last year was a ratchet strap like what we use to tie down the sleds to a trailer. Sure it would be slow to try to ratchet a sled up anything too large, but to get a sled just back on top of the snow I think it will save my back one of these days assuming we get any snow!

 

[Blk88GT]

Some of my best adventures have been following a faint track and not knowing where it goes. Your line out looks like a good time.

 

[spomey]

Hahahahaha no kidding man, you followed mine and 3 others tracks.....your welcome for paving the way for you!!!!

http://backcountryrebels.com/showthread.php?t=26236 check out the linky for our version of the story.

just about 100 yards befor3 your first water crossing a rider in our group sucked about 6 rocks into his track/tunnel and locked his track up tight...we thought he broke his chaincase and it was just turning dark so we hiked out. A group of 4 went in the next morning packing alot of gear and a chainsaw to clear a path...what you are were on was actually a mapped trail #68 or #63 I cant remember off hand...so actually we helped out clearing the trail of downed trees.

If you dropped in and had the pleasure of getting your sleds through "the slot" good on you! Me and another would hike to find the best path, hike back and ride...it was a "no-joke" day we had a retired elderly gent with us!!!


Awesome vids!!! we didn't get any pictures the whole day only one the next day of a guy "logging" a way through!

spomey

 

[Yamadoo04]

Ya we could see the foot tracks in the snow that went down and around searching for the best way out. The entire time I was thinking man I would hate to blaze this trail. It took us 3 hrs and we had a track to follow. Glad you guys got out ok

 

[Scothern22]

That was a crazy day having to get thew that with spomey. I feel bad that you guys droped down that it wasn't fun getting out of there. Glad you guys made it out safe.

 

[Yamadoo04]

I am glad you guys made it out too. I was worried we were going to find some sleds down there and then we would have been really screwed. that was quite the impressive ride out for you guys too.

 

[Goin For Snow]

now there is a whole bunch or tracks going nowhere