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Has anyone hit the backway to crown king this season? Ill be heading up on the 23rd or 24th of this month and I have never been. Just curious how bad it is this year after some of the rain we had. Also, if you see a white isuzu trooper up there next weekend, it’s me. Feel free to stop and say Hi! This will be my first trip out in the Isuzu.
 
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nmrwr85 said:
Has anyone hit the backway to crown king this season? Ill be heading up on the 23rd or 24th of this month and I have never been. Just curious how bad it is this year after some of the rain we had. Also, if you see a white isuzu trooper up there next weekend, it’s me. Feel free to stop and say Hi! This will be my first trip out in the Isuzu.
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I did it on Memorial Day in a 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee with a 2.5" lift and 32s. I made it just fine, but dragged my belly on one big step and had to stack rocks in a couple other places, but it was fine. However, that was before the Monsoon, so it probably changed a little since then.
 
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Has anyone hit the backway to crown king this season? Ill be heading up on the 23rd or 24th of this month and I have never been. Just curious how bad it is this year after some of the rain we had. Also, if you see a white isuzu trooper up there next weekend, it’s me. Feel free to stop and say Hi! This will be my first trip out in the Isuzu.
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Had some friends do it this last weekend, they didn't mention anything to rough.
 
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Has anyone hit the backway to crown king this season? Ill be heading up on the 23rd or 24th of this month and I have never been. Just curious how bad it is this year after some of the rain we had. Also, if you see a white isuzu trooper up there next weekend, it’s me. Feel free to stop and say Hi! This will be my first trip out in the Isuzu.
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I ran this with two other rigs about 3 weeks ago, it depends what you have.
I would not recommend going by yourself as your first trail.
 
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Ill have some other rigs with me but thank you for the heads up.
I just have a trooper with a slight lift and mud terrains. Nothing crazy.
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We had a Jeep Grand Cherokee’s with a 2” lift and 31’s, with some careful placement it made it no problem.
 
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Heading to the Inaugural Northern Arizona Meet N Greet in Seligman in a few hours (best be getting to bed...). If only half the respondents come we should have a pretty good crowd. OB, 4x4, food and new friends, what a great combo!

Jim
 
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TheGrrrrr said:
I'm looking to head up to Sedona to do Broken Arrow possibly next weekend. Would be fun to do it with a few others if anyone is interested.
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Hows that trail? I just did crown king and only bypassed the 2 crazy trails but crawled up everything else just fine.
I might be interested in going.
 
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Hows that trail? I just did crown king and only bypassed the 2 crazy trails but crawled up everything else just fine.
I might be interested in going.
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Never done it, but I have to think it’s less difficult than the back way to CK.
 
Broken arrow is very short. Make sure you have a trail book so you can make a day of it. I did broken arrow in a stock 3rd gen 4runner with street tires in 2wd most of the time.
 
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Either day should work for me, but I'm guessing we will have more folks interested in Saturday.
 
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nmrwr85 said:
The wife got Saturday off so i should be good to go
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Just heard from my mechanic. Looks like one of the parts is not getting here in time. I won’t be picking up the truck until Saturday. I’m going to have to postpone to a different weekend. Getting Rover parts is quite a challenge.
 
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