Exploring 5-Mile Pass

[ttora4runner]

Well do to a hang-up with my move into my new apartment and with the cancellation of work last night I needed something to do. Mountain biking was out since I’ll be getting my butt kicked at work night moving concrete for testing purposes. So the next opinion was to hit up 5-Mile Pass. The plan was to try and find the back way to Jacob City and Ophir from the main recreation area but not being too familiar with the trails further back into the area I only went a portion of the way (plus I came to old gate post and didn’t want to past that).
I would’ve ventured further back in but I came a across an old gate (post really) and didn’t want to risk trespassing where I should not have been (didn’t see any signs), so I turned around and head back out. I’ll have to wait to upload my GPS coordinate to see where I was at before venturing back to that portion of the trail system. So I ended up just exploring some other trail that turned into an ATV trail for a bit then back into a normal vehicle trail.

Highest elevation I reached per my GPS was around 7100 ft. I was almost double that last year in Ouray, Colorado.

Overall, it was a good to get out for a bit to enjoy the scenery and smell of the Juniper trees. Now to I have to just clean the mud off.

On to the photo’s, not many action photo’s since it was just me.

This was covered in snow last time I came here in December
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I want to try and find the road that will take me close to this peak. For some reason or another I want to hike to the top of it.
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Shame-less plug of my 4runner (right around 7100’).
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[Good Times]

cool pix!

thanks for sharing!

[Robinhood4x4]

Yeah, keep up the picture taking, the calendar contest will start up in a few months.

[Scuba]

I think i read about this in a 4x mag a while back.

Nice pics !!

[troyboy162]

i think these guys are in that Ophir area. they do alot of fun stuff out there so they might be good to hook up with
www.mojaveunderground.com

[ttora4runner]

Only half of my original post posted. Well, here is the rest then.

Other shameless plugs of my 4runner
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One close tire
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A little flexie, the tire is actually off the ground about 5”
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Eagle Mountain, Utah city center.
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Don’t drop anything. These things scare the crap out of me to walk on but I keep doing it. Go figure.
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Hopefully, my next trip report will be somewhere up American Fork Canyon or along Skyline Drive in Bountiful, Utah.