@4runnerfiend -- Hey, Chase, yeah I wasn't sure from your post whether you were going to make it or not... but we were at the end of the pavement, getting ready, for 20-25 minutes and no one else showed up, so we headed out.

It was just 3 vehicles--5 people, 2 dogs, 1 GoPro, 1 drone! We had fun. The trail is in good shape. Water crossings were lower than I would have liked, but there was still water in them. Nothing too hard on that trail. The rocky hill is the most difficult... and it's not difficult. Beautiful area. We saw signs that Middle Willows (out some ways back in there) was closed due to deep mud, so of course we took the turn for Middle Willows! (We would have turned back if we'd encountered truly deep mud--no winch on any of the vehicles.) No mud nor any closure. Middle Willows was the most challenging of the various trails we took back in there--I put a few more dings and scrapes in my skid plates.

At the very end of the trail, way back in there, we met a guy named "Mountain Mike" who says that he's been living out there for three years now (moving around; not that one spot). He was either completely crazy or completely brilliant... or maybe both.

I had a new GoPro attached to the roof of my vehicle and a guy named Patrick was flying a drone. I'm hoping to edit something together and post it this week.

John