Last Thursday, a buddy and I went and did some old mining road exploration as well as running the Mossback Wash Trail. I was in the Tacoma, and Sonny was in his FJ. We ended up on route 66 for a bit, going through Oatman, before taking the trail that runs parallel the old narrow gauge railroad bed that ran ore from the mines in Oatman to the smelter in Needles, Ca. Unfortunately, I didn't get any pics of the old railroad bed. The batteries in the camera died. But here's some pics from the trails...

Starting off on the trail.


I'm sure he wished he was in front before the end of the day...


A "Bajaesque" pic for you FJ guys...


Trail:


And more trail:


You can see the remnants of this old mining compound. There were at least three different buildings. We think this one might have been the main office. It's old, at any rate.



There were a few pics taken of the other buildings, but they came out way fuzzy. Our designated picture taker wasn't used to my camera...

More to come...

 

Roxy, the wonder dog. Other than being prone to motion sickness, she's a trooper...


Fun little section:




Sonny on another step up. These FJ's look mean....


Another little step up..



Still more...

 

This section was a little tricky. It's hard to see in the photo's, but you had to get your left tires up on a rock, and then immediately bear right. If I had sliders, I could have just climbed up and over the rocks, but I was trying to save the paint...











Sonny tried it, but found that he was just a little too wide to be able to do it, so he took a bypass...

This was on the Mossback Wash Trail. Marc P and I did this a couple years ago, and it was pretty tame then. It's changed a bit...























A few more on the way...

 

These last pics were taken just after turning onto the old railroad trail.
There is a rock that was turned into a memorial for the miners that died in the Oatman area. It's very old...








Thanks for reading!

 

And drooling

Great pics, would like to visit there sometime.
Next year I am going to be doing some driving.

Tons of vacation built up now.

 

Would you paint that chrome section of bumper already?!

Nice pics!

 

I know, I know...

Well, Heath, with only one day off a week, and a list of honey-do's a mile long, what would you do, paint chrome or go wheel?

 

AWESOME pics!!

Does that FJ have LT? looks like it in one of the pics but not others.

 

No, he's just running a OME setup, coils and shocks. He told me the numbers, but I can't remember them off hand. He recently put on the Road Armor bumper in the front and a Warn rear bumper, and this was the first run since installing them. He was really happy with the handling out on the trail with the OME's.

 

What part of arizona are you in.

That looks like a trail that I wouldn't mind hitting up.

 

Probably the same setup I am running.
886 heavy duty up front (recommended for a winch/bumper combo)
895 medium back aft

 

Just outside of Bullhead City, Arizona. Let me know if you head over!

 

That sounds right, Corey.

 

^^^X2

I live near Oatman

Hey I have done some of those trails around Oatman. Did you go into town? Its a really neat place although all they talk about is Clark Gable taking his honeymoon there.

Very nice pictures!

 

cool pics. should come check out the rez. i have some trails out here. no one to wheel with around here.

 

Oh yeah, grew up playing around Oatman. Remember hearing about "Oatey"?
Still know a handful of the residents.

Where do you live? Golden Valley or in Kingman itself?

 

nice pics, thanks for posting

 

We live in the big city................................kingman-berg.
So where exactly are you?

 

The thriving metropolis of Bullhead City...

 

How long is the trail and how long did it take to run?
Your about 4 hrs. North of yuma, so I wouldn't mind hitting up that trail on a weekend.