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Originally Posted by whiplashtx
Thanks for the book and website breakdown. Elephant Hill is at the top of my list for Moab this year since I won't be able to do it next year in the Jeep.
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We had a blast. Just stay centered in the Squeeze aka Dupont Narrows. If you drive your pax tire on the rock to the pax side you will slam your driver rear end on the rock you are trying to avoid on the driver side. There is enough room for a full size in there. But there are hundreds of vehicle marks on the rock!
The one spot that I found nasty was S.O.B. hill especially coming back to the EH loop. A 2dr Jeep will not notice but longer wheelbases have a hard time turning left there going out of the loop and very hard time turning right coming back to the loop. Coming back, the danger, JKUs/JLUs without huge tires included, is having your front tires make the turn without realizing the rear pax tire will go in the big hole on the pax side. That's how many axles have been snapped there per my Moab friends.
I backed up the hill to avoid said hole altogether (turning left instead of right). Even so, you still want someone to watch your pax side. I kept extra driver side to be sure and put the gas tank Shrock skid to good use.
Other than S.O.B hill, everything was straightforward and Bobby's Hole climb gave us no trouble in either direction.