To diminish the confusion about the grade up Telephone Cyn.,(aka: Silver Cyn.) here is the complete TR as posted on the truck camper forum. Paste this in your browser:
http://www.rv.net/forum/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/27277376.cfm
The road surface is dry, sharp crushed rock, ideal for traction with big, low ground pressure tires at lowered pressure and LS diffs.
It is a bulldozed track to service the...yes, telephone and power lines that seamlessly ascend the steep face of the Inyo's. The road surface is dry, sharp crushed rock, ideal for traction with big, low ground pressure tires at lowered pressure and LS diffs.
We all come from different stems. My bro John (that's his Ford F250 and pop-up camper in the pic above) and I come from a jeeping/off-roading/rock crawling past but are now old enough not to enjoy laying on the ground at night and enjoy traveling off-road in our truck campers. The difference is we use our old 'jeeping' technology with our 10K pound truck campers and have even coined a new off-roading style of TC-ing into the moniker; XTC. Extreme Truck Camper. The XTC community has developed a lot of techniques to keep your TC from pulling itself apart when you get the frame and axles all twisted up. Three-point. Four point, diamond shaped attachments. Loosen the rear tie-downs and let the back float, side to side above the bed.
regards, as always, jefe