What race fans the Nordschleife is 4 x 4 disciples their Rubicon trail. The toughest Offroadstrecke of the world is an agony for man and machine - and a great experience.
Where could the toughest all wheel route in the world be better than in the southwest of the United States? The Rubicon trail is no artificial all-wheel drive course, but an official US road through the El Dorado national forest in California. Weekend for weekend thousands of all-terrain vehicle enthusiasts to the trail, the challenge for man and machine with the help of reduction ratios, to defeat the entkoppelbaren axle and winch applications make the pilgrimage. The Rubicon trail has a name like Donnerhall; is regarded by all cycling fans as Northern loop for all-terrain vehicle; a mythical route, you must be driven at least once in life.
Jam on the Rubicon trail
"Some drivers think that here was a game - but since they are wrong", says Tom, one of the guides. Without them, little goes on the trail. Who does not listen to the tour experts, is out and for some is directly at the entrance control. If you add his birdwatching here, must watch. "Somehow, we get by each driver - yet no one had to run", tells Eric, also for years guide in the El Dorado national forest. Who wants to have really free, comes during the week. For is the weather that is going on the Rubicon trail from Friday to Sunday the hell. On some weekends, thousands are on the way - there are traffic jams in tricky places. Because although the trail is a total only 22 miles long, it may move away no more than 15 metres from the line with the own climbing maxen. The forest service looks on. Where the trail is located, you need to know but itself; You are usually in vain looking for tags.
Often decide cm
All the views and the concentration when driving, one quickly forgets how hot is the Sun in the Sierra Nevada from the sky. "Drink, drink plenty of water", gets trail guide Tom. But the thirst is little more than a marginal phenomenon. After a few hours, the Rubicon trail shows its ugly side. In a dry river bed it is steeper than on the Streif in Kitzbuhel down between huge rocks. Cm decide whether the Jeep Wrangler with a crazy axis entanglement on the obstacles can maneuver themselves or grind touch down. Again and again the metallic crunch of Unterbodenschutzes, a scratching on the rims, or a muffled impact to the bumper - on the Rubicon trail is untouched nobody. With the left foot on the brake and the right to the metal works to cm for centimeters ahead.
The Rubicon trail is no all-wheel drive
The angle sets to both man and machine. One of the jeeps driving down grind. With combined forces, a lot of shaking and pushing finally continues after a quarter of an hour. "We must improvise just - just we have a vehicle with winch." "But so far we have still everyone through somehow" trail guide Eric says. The Rubicon trail is anything but all-wheel drive, which you would like to travel in his well air-conditioned Grand Cherokee. Real fans take open and so virtually unprotected set off the chaos of nature and wilderness. Already after a few hundred metres on the tour, the dust of all ownership had taken. Between the teeth on the clothes in your hair, you feel the dark powder. The own Jeep can be anyway merely ausgekarchert.
The eyes water, the Sun. The all-terrain vehicle is in the middle of a dry river bed. Front, it goes down so steeply that you can look over the hood almost to the ground, this is the car in a frightening angle. To the rock left and right are just a hand it wide. Tom, trail guide in a yellow T-Shirt, conducted with soothing voice cm for centimeter by one of the most difficult passages of the Rubicon trail. A bit to the right - now left again, slowly with gas and brake forward rock - finally it's done. "You're doing a great job", Tom grins and crane the thumbs up. He makes sure each time. But is a class feeling to have made something. But the tour has only just begun. More than 15 miles ahead still.
Where could the toughest all wheel route in the world be better than in the southwest of the United States? The Rubicon trail is no artificial all-wheel drive course, but an official US road through the El Dorado national forest in California. Weekend for weekend thousands of all-terrain vehicle enthusiasts to the trail, the challenge for man and machine with the help of reduction ratios, to defeat the entkoppelbaren axle and winch applications make the pilgrimage. The Rubicon trail has a name like Donnerhall; is regarded by all cycling fans as Northern loop for all-terrain vehicle; a mythical route, you must be driven at least once in life.Jam on the Rubicon trail
"Some drivers think that here was a game - but since they are wrong", says Tom, one of the guides. Without them, little goes on the trail. Who does not listen to the tour experts, is out and for some is directly at the entrance control. If you add his birdwatching here, must watch. "Somehow, we get by each driver - yet no one had to run", tells Eric, also for years guide in the El Dorado national forest. Who wants to have really free, comes during the week. For is the weather that is going on the Rubicon trail from Friday to Sunday the hell. On some weekends, thousands are on the way - there are traffic jams in tricky places. Because although the trail is a total only 22 miles long, it may move away no more than 15 metres from the line with the own climbing maxen. The forest service looks on. Where the trail is located, you need to know but itself; You are usually in vain looking for tags.
Often decide cm
All the views and the concentration when driving, one quickly forgets how hot is the Sun in the Sierra Nevada from the sky. "Drink, drink plenty of water", gets trail guide Tom. But the thirst is little more than a marginal phenomenon. After a few hours, the Rubicon trail shows its ugly side. In a dry river bed it is steeper than on the Streif in Kitzbuhel down between huge rocks. Cm decide whether the Jeep Wrangler with a crazy axis entanglement on the obstacles can maneuver themselves or grind touch down. Again and again the metallic crunch of Unterbodenschutzes, a scratching on the rims, or a muffled impact to the bumper - on the Rubicon trail is untouched nobody. With the left foot on the brake and the right to the metal works to cm for centimeters ahead.
The Rubicon trail is no all-wheel drive
The angle sets to both man and machine. One of the jeeps driving down grind. With combined forces, a lot of shaking and pushing finally continues after a quarter of an hour. "We must improvise just - just we have a vehicle with winch." "But so far we have still everyone through somehow" trail guide Eric says. The Rubicon trail is anything but all-wheel drive, which you would like to travel in his well air-conditioned Grand Cherokee. Real fans take open and so virtually unprotected set off the chaos of nature and wilderness. Already after a few hundred metres on the tour, the dust of all ownership had taken. Between the teeth on the clothes in your hair, you feel the dark powder. The own Jeep can be anyway merely ausgekarchert.
The eyes water, the Sun. The all-terrain vehicle is in the middle of a dry river bed. Front, it goes down so steeply that you can look over the hood almost to the ground, this is the car in a frightening angle. To the rock left and right are just a hand it wide. Tom, trail guide in a yellow T-Shirt, conducted with soothing voice cm for centimeter by one of the most difficult passages of the Rubicon trail. A bit to the right - now left again, slowly with gas and brake forward rock - finally it's done. "You're doing a great job", Tom grins and crane the thumbs up. He makes sure each time. But is a class feeling to have made something. But the tour has only just begun. More than 15 miles ahead still.
