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dsefcik
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10/24/2012
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Just FYI as of 10-22-2012 the road from the highway to Butler Canyon / Rockhouse Cyn junction has about a 1 mile stretch of very deep soft sand right around where Alcoholic pass is, 4WD for sure, no more 2WD to the junction. From there the "road" to Rockhouse Cyn is mostly gone, we were in an Isuzu Trooper and had to rock pile in 3 spots and made many new routes to get in. It took us 1-1/2 hours to/from the junction to get to the RH trailhead. The whole Rockhouse canyon floor and Nicholias Canyon floor are cement hard sand bottoms. The recent rains really worked the canyons hard out there.

A TR on my 4 day backpack trip is coming soon.....
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10/24/2012
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One and a half hours to the end is pretty amazing. It must have been slow going. Probably could have walked faster. Thanks for building the road back up and making the way. One good thing though is it sure is easy walking when it is like cement. Can't wait to see some pics and read the TR.
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10/25/2012
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Sounds like fun!
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Can't wait to see your TR.
I really like that area.
Bob

dsefcik wrote:
Just FYI as of 10-22-2012 the road from the highway to Butler Canyon / Rockhouse Cyn junction has about a 1 mile stretch of very deep soft sand right around where Alcoholic pass is, 4WD for sure, no more 2WD to the junction. From there the "road" to Rockhouse Cyn is mostly gone, we were in an Isuzu Trooper and had to rock pile in 3 spots and made many new routes to get in. It took us 1-1/2 hours to/from the junction to get to the RH trailhead. The whole Rockhouse canyon floor and Nicholias Canyon floor are cement hard sand bottoms. The recent rains really worked the canyons hard out there.

A TR on my 4 day backpack trip is coming soon.....
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10/25/2012
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Look forward to the report. I just admire being inside rock house valley. Love that place.
Nice story of the drive in. Last trip in for us on a 4x4 was hard packed sand ( after winter rains). The boulders stopped our Bronco 4x4 about 1/4 mile from
the hidden spring at the entrance to RHC.
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rockhopper wrote:
The boulders stopped our Bronco 4x4 about 1/4 mile from
the hidden spring at the entrance to RHC.


We did have to "rope 'n tow" a boulder to get it out of the way....I am sure somebody with a big tough 4x4 Jeep would get through easy....

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10/31/2012
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The rocks have been put in the parking area by rangers so people are "forced" to walk the quarter mile up the wash to get to the spring.
edited by DesertWRX on 10/31/2012

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dsefcik
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DesertWRX wrote:
The rocks have been put in the parking area by rangers so people are "forced" to walk the quarter mile up the wash to get to the spring.
edited by DesertWRX on 10/31/2012

Just to clarify, our boulder tow'n move was way before the trailhead....

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