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Gold Hills Posse 4×4 Club · Folsom, CA

Fordyce river crossing

  1. JohnDF Subscriber
    #127 May 2009, 5:51 AM

    Make sure everybody is careful whenn wheeling on Fordyce this time of year. The river crossings can rise up pretty fast and become dangerous. Rob got stuck on the other side this year and had to wait for it to drop. A couple of years ago, a bunch of us Posse members got stuck running the whole trail (until 3:30 am) because we couldn't cross back over. Just play it safe and be careful.



    Here's an article about a local that swamped his FJ, wheeling alone, with his whole family in the rig. Stupid is as stupid does. I'm just glad they were all okay.



    http://www.theunion.com/article/2009052 ... ofile=1053

    I used to wheel a lot. . .
  2. Justin Subscriber
    #227 May 2009, 6:46 AM

    I was reading about that on Pirate. The whole family was airlifted by helicopter off of the top of the FJ. 😲

  3. Fred Subscriber
    #327 May 2009, 7:35 AM
    "JohnDF" wrote: The river crossings can rise up pretty fast and become dangerous. Rob got stuck on the other side this year and had to wait for it to drop.



    Was that the weekend we were working on Strawberry? Some of the guys were talking about someone being stranded.

  4. Fred Subscriber
    #427 May 2009, 7:38 AM
    "JohnDF" wrote: A couple of years ago, a bunch of us Posse members got stuck running the whole trail (until 3:30 am) because we couldn't cross back over. Just play it safe and be careful.



    That was not a fun trip!!! I never thought about the increased snow melt and run off causing the increase in water flow in the afternoon, but that makes perfect sense now. :?

  5. JohnDF started this Subscriber
    #527 May 2009, 7:48 AM

    This one happened yesterday. The one that was the same day as the Strawberry maintenance run involved Rob 😂

    I used to wheel a lot. . .

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