Middle St Vrain & Coney Flats 7/2/2020

[RockyMtRebel]

Had a great run up MSV and Coney flats today with Mile and Dave and Mikes kids. MSV seemed harder than I remember and Coney was a blast as always. The “gatekeeper” rocks right at the start seemed more dig out and bigger for some reason. I tried riding the high rocks but slipped off a rock and banged my diff on the way thru. Dave got stopped and we winched him back and then stacked some rocks to get him thru. Mike got thru with not a scrape thanks to some AMAZING spotting. Lol

The water crossings was not very deep but the weather couldn’t have been better. Thanks for coming out today guys!

[RockyMtRebel]

[JandDGreens]

Matt and Mike n family, thank you for such a wonderful day. Perfect in every way. I haven't taken the time to upload my photos yet, hopefully I'll have some worth sharing.

[RockyMtRebel]

Heck yea David, great seeing you again! Had a great time on a beautiful trail

Heres one more video of you crossing water

[JandDGreens]

Here are a few pictures. I need to load the one video to U-Tube hope to get it done soon.

[JandDGreens]

Matt on the Cony Flats obstacle.

[newracer]

The gatekeeper likely seemed harder because they clean it out every spring to make it harder. I hope you un-stacked the rocks you needed to get through.

[RockyMtRebel]

I didn’t need to stack rocks to get thru

[JandDGreens]

I apologize, we didn't un stack the rocks. Made mistakes in following Matt's line through the gate keeper instead of getting out and evaluating a better line for me with 33's after slipping of the boulder and hanging up on my rear diff we had to pull me back and put few rocks under my right rear wheel to clear the diff. I apologize for not clearing them. Really had no issues with the rest of the trail as I stopped taking Matt's line through everything. Won't happen again.

[Jackie]

is this doable with no lift on 32 inch tires?

[open_circuit]

In general, yes. When we ran MSV / Coney a couple summers back, there was at least one unmodified older 4runner with us which completed the trail. Your Rubicon is much better equipped than that runner was. The gatekeeper is pretty challenging, bit most of the trail is not a technically difficult trail.

[Heather]

Jackie previously posted:

[newracer]

I have run it many times in my JKUR with no problems.