RUBICON : A Legendary Jeep Trail & Off-Road Adventure - Part 1 of 3

The night before our 2010 Project-JK Rockin Rubicon Trail Run, I asked my friend Tom why he wanted to run this trail and he casually responded that "if you want to be an accomplished four wheeler, there are a few places in this world you have to go and one is the Rubicon." Crossing through the El Dorado National Forest up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the Rubicon Trail is truly one of the most beautiful ones I've been on bar none. Of course, its unrelenting 22 miles of boulders that need to be crawled, steep ledges that need to be climbed, narrow trees that need to be squeezed between, deep muddy water crossings that need to be forded and tippy off camber terrain that needs to be carefully negotiated is ultimately what makes the Rubicon Trail so legendary and famous around the world.

Originally made as a single half hour video, RUBICON : A Legendary Jeep Trail & Off-Road Adventure has been broken down into a 3 part series, each approximately 10 minutes long and so that it could be broadcasted on YouTube. In this first episode, you will see where our adventures began in South Lake Tahoe, our road trip down to the Loon Lake Staging Area, our crawl through the Gatekeeper, descent into the Granite Bowl and climb up Walker Hill and all before tragedy strikes.

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• wrangler
• project-jk
• off-road
• loon
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• granite
• bowl
• gatekeeper
• roll
• tip
• winch
• recovery
• off
• road
• evolution
• mud
• water
• camber
• boulders
• crawl
• climb
• squeeze
• walker
• hill
• offroad
• 4x4
• truck
• rover
• 4wd
• Jeep Wrangler
• Four-wheel Drive

[clarke8554]

this might be a dumb question but do you need to bring extra gas along to make it the whole way?

[wayalife]

@clarke8554 not a dumb question at all. for a JK, it's not needed but, you will burn through a lot.

[wayalife]

@clarke8554 i suppose it all depends on how many miles you can get off a full tank. you'd also have to take into consideration how many miles you can get doing a lot of low range crawling.

[clarke8554]

@wayalife thanks for the info, i also just found out the trail is only 17 miles long. i didnt know that before, but thanks for the help

[wayalife]

@clarke8554 well, it's more like 22 including the easy dirt roads and you have to remember that it's about 40 uphill to get to loon lake from hwy 50. from the end of the trail, the nearest gas is about 10 miles to the north or about 20 miles to the south in south lake tahoe. no big deal if these were all highway miles but, you do burn a lot getting to the trail, running the trail and even getting back to town.

[thelaxer1031]

What does it cost to drive on the rubicon, and what kind of planning does it take to tackle something like this.

[wayalife]

@thelaxer1031 there is no fee to run the rubicon but, you'll want to plan on at least a couple of days to do it.

[clarke8554]

alright, thanks for all the info. i live in florida and i hope one day i will have the joy of wheeling the trail

[clarke8554]

@wayalife thanks for understanding. do you think a 4runner could make it without bringing any extra?

[inteligentvtec]

awsome video! aint nothing but mud here in florida, cant wait to head out west this summer. 03" rubi