| Trip Report [message #201211] |
Sun, 10 March 2013 14:12  |
Neil
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Registered: July 2007
Location: Los Angeles and Magalia, ...
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On Friday, my friend Michael and I went off with our GMCs, trailers (with off road cars inside) and other camping stuff to meet friends who had arrived Thursday at the Dove Springs area of the Mojave Desert.
Warning #1 - it had rained the night before and for the first time ever, I could not leave my house and make it to public roads with the trailer attached. No traction. So we disconnected the trailer, pulled it with the 4x4 and drove the coach out under its own power. (The coach went fine by itself but can't pull a trailer up steep wet hills) That was a sign we should have stayed home.
But anyway, we motored up to Mojave with no incident. However, past the town of Mojave it started to snow. At the turn off to Dove Springs there was a pair of tracks in the snow in the dirt road. That was Warning #2.
Feeling commited to joining our friends and having a "good time" I made the trun and started driving up the dirt road. Which goes uphill. Made it a mile before all traction was lost.
Whereupon we backed up for a mile, in the snow, on the dirt, with trailers, back to the highway. That took over a half hour. Then we turned around and went home.
Oh yea, the coach ran great.
http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/member-galleries/p47967-no-traction.html
Neil
76 Eleganza now sold
Los Angeles
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