Down a truly rough road in my class C?
Need advice please. I've been offered a FHU on a remote ranchette where I go horseback riding, but the easements, which are very rutted and rolling, sort of up-and-down lumps in the road, are enough ...
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garyhaupt wrote:
Morning...two different critters. The 20..I thought it was 25, miles into Chaco is washboard. On and on and on...and one sand wash to cross. There is no fear of contacting the underside, at all. It is heavily used, etc. You know when you get to the park boundary..the road is paved.
I have been in 6? times...once from the south west..Crown Point Agency, in my VW Westy. You want to be in for a 3 or 4 days Phil. It is a very different place.
Gary
Thanks Gary for the Chaco info! We may give it a try eventually, as we like visiting Native American historical areas.
Washboard is no problem for us (even though we hate it) - as we've had to travel long distances on it in Death Valley and Oregon - usually at 5-10 MPH speeds in our Class C.
Having to travel in/on the stuff that Robert's photo shows above is where I draw the non-4X4 line for us ... however, you could probably deal with that kind of guck in your lifted 6WD Class C. ;)
BTW, I have a theory regarding how a washboard road surface comes about: Maaaaaaybe from folks down through the years before the washboard existed driving too fast on the road surface. Perhaps related to the torque on drive axles being applied via a series of pulses from an internal combustion engine's up and down piston motion? I'll bet that roads didn't get "washboarded" in the good old horse-and-buggy days.
