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From: Bruce Aaron Hefner <gt9742a@prism.gatech.edu>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Wednesday, December 10, 1997 8:46 AM
Subject: Re: DML: ABS Limitationsu
>> Colorado and New Mexico have some beautiful country for four-wheeling. I
>> hear tell that West Texas has hills, but the bumps that broke up the
>> interminable sagebrush on I-20 are nothing compared to the majesty of the
>> Colorado Rockies.
>> Then again, I'm sorta partial to the Rockies in Montana. If you want to
see MOUNTAINS, the place to go is Glacier National Park.
>
>I hear Glacier is really beautiful, I've always wanted to visit...
>
>>
>> The attraction of four wheeling here in California is the diversity of
>> trail conditions. Most of the mountain trails are of deteriorated
granite,
>> with granite bolders strewn around. Then there are the desert trails,
with
>> sandy washes, hills made of all sorts of soils, and lots of rocks. On the
>> coast, you'll find the clays and more granite, and everything from the
>> coastal chapparal in the south, to Redwood forests up north. And there
have
>> been people around long enough that there are trails going darn near
>> anywhere you might want (and too many people in so many places you'd want
>> to go otherwise). They keep closing areas, but we might be turning the
>> corner on that front.
>>
>> Jim
Having spent a good deal of time working in the Sangre de Cristos of
northern NM, I can tell you there are loads of great four-wheelin' places,
and many of the roads are well-documented in maps you can pick up in the
area.
But for pure beauty and splendor, and the closest thing I've seen to
Swiss/Italian Alps on this continent is Glacier/Waterton Int'l Peace Park on
the Montana/Canada border. A swing through Yellowstone/Teton Nat'l (about
twelve hours south of Glacier) is also well worth the effort.
Chris
(QuadCab on order)
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