Good video with a couple of 110s and some particularly good action around 12:30.

 

Great post/video. At 12:30 I hit pause to go check just what exactly my insurance policy does/don't cover Yikes!

 

Wow! Haven’t watched it yet but I’ve done Flat Iron a couple of times in my 2-door Wrangler and would NEVER consider doing it in the Landie. I look forward to this.

EDIT: okay, I went back and checked my notes and I was confusing Flat Iron with Strike Ravine, which is also south down 191 and a good deal tougher. I only ran Flat Iron Mesa once, in 2018, but still I don’t think I’d have done it in the 110; I’ve got a lot to learn about how this thing performs in that type environment.

 

When the second one went nose up, my heart stopped a little! I could only imagine how it felt in the driver's seat! Hopefully he has the leather seats he can wipe clean...

 

That was a "Medium" trail?!? As a die hard over-lander, that Medium would probably be the edge of crawling that I'd ever want to do. Definitely would want to go with sliders before that. Were they both P400's? I think the one was an X. Anyone know?

 

Here's a better video of the trail itself, only with Jeeps. The skinny, off-camber section at 3:50 was one of the scariest things I've ever done in a Jeep. Nothing "hard" or technical about it; it's just the no-guardrail aspect. I was solo so even though I knew a Jeep would "fit" around there, I couldn't see my right side tires and everything in me was screaming that they were going off, and it's a long-*** way down into Kane Creek Canyon if that were to happen.

At4:50is a nice tippy section also.

These and probably a good number of other sections were bypassed by the Rover crews, or at least they didn't make it on that video; most of the elements have a bypass on Flat Iron iirc.

 

Old..balding..not in the shape of my youth..raised teenagers... I no longer have any pride! Sign me up for the by-pass!! Love off-roading, but I'm the more of the east-coast forest roads & mountains mud kind of guy who's currently stuck in the west. I have my limits!

WOW: Every time I see you making a deeper left hand turn on that thing I fear it's going over. Reminded me of when I climbed Mt. Rainier. They taught us about ice anchors and belays. First time I saw an endless crevasse I wondered where the safety gear was. Then I realized they only came out when the GUIDE was nervous...That scared the "crap" out of me when I realized it and then saw them. So, I guess this is the same, it's not bad until the guide gets nervous...

 

I always say that when I leave Moab in the morning headed for a trail, and then the red mist takes over when I come to the "Bypass-left/Hell'sCyclone-right" sign.

 

Wow. at 13:45, to take that on in a New Defender without the insurance of rock sliders --- Brave and Bold !! Enjoy !

 

I met him at SCARR this weekend in Gilmer, Tx. We compared rigs. He is fearless. His young daughter did things I passed on. They're now my personal super-hero and super-heroine! (Though technically, after I saw it I regretted not going for it...)

Had a sad/impressive story about losing that front wheel arch.