After many months of tedious planning and coordinating with multiple groups and park officials by our club member, Jerry, Sunday June 7th Santa Barbara 4 wheel drive club made a trek out to the Miller Jeep trail.
With 13 rigs and 21 members and 2 doggies, we met at the trailhead at 9:30 aired, down and began our day.
Fortunately, and oddly enough there wasn’t much traffic on the trail that day.
Known as the toughest 4×4 trail in our area the Miller did not disappoint. Led by one of our more experienced members, Swifty who took leed and another one of our veterans Dick brought up the tail position our first half the day was fun with many beautiful mountain and remote valley views much of the Native plants & foliage was still in full Bloom and looking awesome..
With midday temperatures approaching the low 80’s.We had lunch at sunset campground where there was a picnic table and much appreciated shade.
There was actually still water flowing in several of the creek crossings that we traversed through as well.
In the second half a day, it turned out to be very challenging with the legendary tougher sections of that trail being near the top of Alamo Mountain. We overcame a couple of trail challenges with a ripped sidewall and damaged parts.
But with coopetative diligent spotting in the most extreme areas we ultimately got everybody through & off the trail and eventually, back down to our air up spot at one of the Hungary valley campgrounds.
It turned out to be a very long day, but for those members who had never done that trail previously they can now they can check that off their bucket list.
To quote our Trail Boss: “The Miller did not disappoint- Jerry”