Red Cone Aug 18th 2025

[Remorseless]

Sadly, that's all too common on the trails.

Legit. Always cringe when people follow right behind someone going up or crowd someone coming down. Especially when someone's on a bike or ATV.

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[yokramer]

Wow, dudes on the bikes could've waited a sec

They were chill dudes when I was chatting with them at the top too.

 

[grimmjeeper]

@DonH63 coming down

 

[yokramer]

Had an absolute blast with everyone yesterday. Awesome to meet the new people and hang out with everyone including @gek I guess. @191185 next time you come through again let us know.

 

[grimmjeeper]

@CO2Wrangler coming down

 

[grimmjeeper]

@Powelligator coming down, along with a side-by-side.

 

[Powelligator]

Couple different perspectives of the above - CO2 right in front of me about to take the plunge...

26 Degrees.

It was a Great Day!

 

[Powelligator]

More perspective. At the very top, silhouetted in front of the white cloud, are four vehicles at the top. You can also see why it's called Red Cone.

 

[Powelligator]

Someone said yesterday that in the JL World pretty much everything was represented; out of 8 JL's we had three 2-Doors and five 4-Doors, two diesels, one 392, at least two stick shift manuals and at least one turbo 4.

 

[Powelligator]

It was fortunate that we ran the trail on Sunday, as the day before there was a massive rain and hailstorm in the area; the results of which tamped down most of the dust and loose rocks on the hill which is always good. That said, the rain also made some of the sidehills a bit weaker (over time, this is how obstacles and off cambers get formed) and Don found one of the new weak spots. Fortunately Troy came to the rescue and we got Don righted about two minutes later.

The only breakage I’m aware of was Roy’s driver’s side sway bar link which popped off through the washer leaving everything else firmly attached. Looking at it as we were airing up I could honestly say I’d never seen anything like that before. Then, looking elsewhere on this very forum, seems it’s not unheard of:

https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/forum/threads/sway-bar-link-popped-off.15322/

 

[SadRobot]

More perspective. At the very top, silhouetted in front of the white cloud, are four vehicles at the top. You can also see why it's called Red Cone.

Oof wow that's steep. Looks like a fun trip.

 

[yokramer]

It was fortunate that we ran the trail on Sunday, as the day before there was a massive rain and hailstorm in the area; the results of which tamped down most of the dust and loose rocks on the hill which is always good. That said, the rain also made some of the sidehills a bit weaker (over time, this is how obstacles and off cambers get formed) and Don found one of the new weak spots. Fortunately Troy came to the rescue and we got Don righted about two minutes later.

The only breakage I’m aware of was Roy’s driver’s side sway bar link which popped off through the washer leaving everything else firmly attached. Looking at it as we were airing up I could honestly say I’d never seen anything like that before. Then, looking elsewhere on this very forum, seems it’s not unheard of:

https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/forum/threads/sway-bar-link-popped-off.15322/

@grimmjeeper @gek @Krondor @J.Ferreira and myself were in that rain/hail storm Saturday on Red Elephant Hill. With the water and mud it felt like I was back in NC for a bit.

 

[yokramer]

Oof wow that's steep. Looks like a fun trip.

26* at the steepest parts and that was 1 of 3 descents you need to do to get off. My wife was NOT a fan lol overall was super fun and glad I did it.

 

[SadRobot]

26* at the steepest parts and that was 1 of 3 descents you need to do to get off. My wife was NOT a fan lol overall was super fun and glad I did it.

I told @gek I'd probably never be back to Colorado but these pics/video make me kind of change my mind about that.

 

[yokramer]

I told @gek I'd probably never be back to Colorado but these pics/video make me kind of change my mind about that.

When you do make it back for sure let us know we will make some time to wheel with ya!

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