Ultimate off-road vehicle showdown | Yankee Hill Trail Guide

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Yankee Hill Trail Guide from Alice CO to Central City CO with a stock Jeep Wrangler Rubicon, stock Ford Bronco, 1st gen Toyota 4Runner, AM General Humvee/Hummer, Volkswagen Touareg, Nissan Frontier, Ford Escape, and Toyota Tacoma. Idaho Springs Area Off-Road Trails in the snow. Muddy water, snow sliding, Colorado Views, Rock Crawling. GPS and map views of the trail.
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Time Stamps:
0:00 What's to come
0:42 Off-Road Vehicle Information
2:50 How to get here/St. Mary's Glacier Overlook
3:32 Yankee Hill Climb
5:22 Into the Snow? Snow/Ice!
6:36 Somewhat Confusing Trail Network
8:42 Sounds of Off-Road
9:35 Today's Biggest Challenge
10:26 Nissan Frontier off-road test
10:41 Stock Jeep Wrangler Rubicon struggles
11:08 1st gen 4Runner makes quick work of it
11:25 Toyota Tacoma finds his line
11:44 How will the Humvee do
11:58 This section is rated Difficult by Funtreks
13:11 Too tough for the FORD?
13:40 Let's get Muddy! In CO?
14:18 Yankee Hill Trail Review
15:23 One of us doesn't make it
16:26 Beer Rating Returns
16:38 Can the Jeep get clean after that?
Channel Info:
My name is Dewie Jones and I’m the host (till I can afford someone else), videographer, and video editor for the channel. I’ve daily driven a wrangler my entire driving life starting with a 1997 TJ, most recently a ten year old 2012 JK, and now new 2021 JL. I like the challenge of driving a stock wrangler on tough trails. My buds are not new to wheeling either, but for their own specific reasons, now wheel aggressive SUV based off-roaders like Cherokees, 4Runners, FJs, Land Cruisers, VW Touregs, and Renegades. We decided Colorado Mallcrawlers was a funny name so that's how we got here. We film our trail runs letting whatever happens, happen and then later make the video an accurate trail guide with comments on how to do it better than us.
For trail planning, I use the Funtreks Books (amazon search: Funtreks books). I have the current editions of the Colorado books, Arizona, California, and Moab. I finish up my trail planning with TrailsOffroad as they can sometimes have more detail as well as user submitted current conditions feedback. I use GAIA GPS with TrailsOffroad waypoints on UConnect currently (although I'm not paying attention to it on filming days). Here’s my video that tells you how I find trails. • Find off-road trails t...
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@lostncal 2 жыл бұрын

I'm impressed the Escape made it through those rough sections. Great video.

@coloradomallcrawlers 2 жыл бұрын

Good drivers can accomplish a lot! Thanks for watching!

@anatolearnold1633 2 жыл бұрын

That was me. I enjoy a challenge but it really helps to know your vehicles size and have good spacial awareness.

@JBlinky67 2 жыл бұрын

Love this! The wheelin, the video quality, the scenery. More often, please! 🙂

@coloradomallcrawlers 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I’m trying! My work is just working me every 10-14 hours.

@rsdaarud 2 жыл бұрын

Dewie, you're killing it with these trail guides! The extra effort you've put into videography and editing is paying off! Thanks Brother!

@coloradomallcrawlers 2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate it! I love making them and it’s really fun to try to learn to make a good video. I’m just thankful people watch them… if not, I’d still make videos, but they’d be more like my original channel’s videos, really infrequent (1 every 6 months to a year). My goal is to produce weekly videos here one day tho… my job is just working me every 12-15hrs at home which is hindering my ability to wheel and edit.

@rsdaarud 2 жыл бұрын

@@coloradomallcrawlers Weekly videos would give you little time for your main job. You will need to be a full time KZfaqr!

@coloradomallcrawlers 2 жыл бұрын

I don’t think I’d need to be a full time KZfaqr to do it. I’d just need to not be a full time railroader. I have a plan, but I’d need to make more money before doing so as I gotta pay off my student loans first.

@Drew.Hunter.Maker.Artist 2 жыл бұрын

Great Trail guide! Shows alot of the difficult spots and what to expect. This trail was alot of fun, great views, definitely recommend it. Glad I ran into you guys!

@coloradomallcrawlers 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you did too!

@AdventureBraten01 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve been anticipating this video for a while for a while and without a doubt it didn’t disappoint, great job yet again!!

@coloradomallcrawlers 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you man! I’m learning… this one took a while because I had trouble matching up the route with the pre-established guide info since I didn’t have internet at the cabin.

@AdventureBraten01 2 жыл бұрын

Even though it may have taken a while it turned out great and your skills have come a long way

@frh-freerangehuman Жыл бұрын

Great video dude. Awesome assortment of vehicles. When I started to watch I wondered if my bronco sport badlands would do it. Then I saw the Escape killing it. Lots of fun 🙌🏼

@coloradomallcrawlers Жыл бұрын

Yeah, you’d have fun in your bronco sport on this trail! Thanks for watching!

@johngray9702 Жыл бұрын

You all are AWESOME. These kind of videos are great for beginners like me.

@coloradomallcrawlers Жыл бұрын

That’s great to hear!

@Colorado4x4 2 жыл бұрын

Great video Dewie! I really like the new editing style. It’s great. Love seeing the Ford Escape in its natural habitat. The Ford Escape is like a salmon returning to the exact stream where it was born because it knows it’s a good place to wheel. Nobody thinks about the word “Escape” until they see this

@coloradomallcrawlers 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks buddy! It’s starting to feel natural, but it’s making the older videos harder to edit 😂. The escape is definitely cool! I just wish Ford would protect their alternators better. Trey was a bit cautious in the bronco due to some recent reports of the 2.7L alternators failing around water. Not sure how true that is tho.

@Colorado4x4 2 жыл бұрын

@@coloradomallcrawlers I would keep up with your new style! I think it’s great but what do I know? Not much! Your videos before were really awesome and now they are really awesome +. Kind of like A vs A+ in middle school. I don’t know shit all about Ford alternators but that sucks if it’s true. Or it’s complete garbage if alternators will fail with a little water. Oh man I’m ready for wheeling season but I think it’s going to be a busy summer with work. The oilfield is booming baby! ⛽️

@coloradomallcrawlers Жыл бұрын

@@Colorado4x4 thanks man! Appreciate it!

@aaronbrandes7456 Жыл бұрын

I dig it!

@coloradomallcrawlers Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@Colorado392family 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video man! That humvee 😍 I’m a big fan of all the pop up informational screens man. Lots of extra work in the edit but makes the vid so good.

@coloradomallcrawlers 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! The Humvee was a beast! I like doing the info boxes as I feel it helps show where we are in when certain spots can all look the same. However, that’s what slowed me down on this one… trying to figure out where we were lol

@whatsupdoc4709 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for another great video Dewy! It is so cool to see so many different vehicles. It was cool to compare your awesome jeep to the hum v. I have never seen one with a top on before.

@coloradomallcrawlers 2 жыл бұрын

One day I hope to do videos like this all the time and regularly scheduled… but they definitely take some time to edit. Thanks for watching!

@whatsupdoc4709 2 жыл бұрын

@@coloradomallcrawlers i can see why that would take time to get that all scheduled. I hope it all works out like you hope.

@keepercity 2 жыл бұрын

Homeboy was getting busy in that Escape!

@coloradomallcrawlers 2 жыл бұрын

True, but his Jeep needs some work and he wanted to wheel!

@joe7497 2 жыл бұрын

Right next to the rocky section (10:28-ish) there is an outcrop of quartz that is really neat along with an ammo can geocache. Also, if you have not run it already, check out Miners gulch. Awesome video!

@HarmonyE99 2 жыл бұрын

We did look around the quartz but didn’t know about the geocache! Something to look out for next time

@coloradomallcrawlers 2 жыл бұрын

Nice! I want to run miners and explore yankee hill’s loop. My issue is time or I’d be doing all these right now as they’d be so fun to film.

@rediron44 2 жыл бұрын

Using lockers isn't cheating. The Jeep came from the factory with them. It's not Jeeps fault the others don't have them

@coloradomallcrawlers 2 жыл бұрын

It is when you make these videos for all kinds of vehicles including wranglers without factory lockers. Also, many modern off-road vehicles have factory lockers, but I’ll be using my lockers a lot next week on a tough trail as I take on an awesome driver in a new bronco (that’s not really the point tho… we’re just filming a trail guide together).

@grisa12345 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video! But everyone was way too fast through the rock garden… that’s a good way to break stuff 😬

@coloradomallcrawlers 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks man! I can’t speak for the others, but I’ve been abusing rubicon D44s since 2004 without a break 😉

@mtncrow4x4 Жыл бұрын

Appears mostly on the easy side up until that rocky section at 9:45 when it gets more moderate. If you think a Trailhawk rated Jeep, like the Renegade and Compass can make it, and the VW and Ford Escape were actually able to do it, then def. not a difficult trail. Nice to see all the types of rigs out there! I had a Renegade for a while and it did prove very capable on many trails. The mud def. makes it more challenging! I was also imoressed by the Hummer, must have been that extra weight. 😎

@coloradomallcrawlers Жыл бұрын

The ratings here are in line with trails off-road and Funtreks which are reliable sources. This is the deal, if I rated every trail for how it was for me in my Jeep, they’d all be easy except for a few moderates. Difficult would be if I had to winch (however Mt Blanca would get a difficult rating and I didn’t winch there). That’s just not how I want to rate trails… meaning a trail shouldn’t be rated based on a front and rear locked Jeep on 33s. This is why the reliable sources mentioned above have these ratings. I bumped it up from standard ratings due to the snow/ice and and should have said this in the video. Also, video blunts difficulty. Someone in the comments said they’d take a 2wd vehicle on here, I offered to film it, got nothing but crickets. My ratings are pretty standardized to the trails we covered with the subjectivity coming from only me to keep it standardized (I do take feedback from others wheeling the trip, but ultimately I make the ratings at the end). I hope that all makes sense, I just worked 11 hours that should have been 7 so I’m beat, but thanks for watching!

@mtncrow4x4 Жыл бұрын

@@coloradomallcrawlers Thanks for another great trail guide. 😎

@erikschutzman2402 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, does the 1st gen 4runner in the video have an engine swap?

@coloradomallcrawlers 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I don’t believe so. He has what I listed, unless I made an error… but all the guys checked it before publishing (still, it could have been missed).

@bmarie8965 Жыл бұрын

Definitely guys stuff

@coloradomallcrawlers Жыл бұрын

😂, I do know plenty of awesome women that love off-roading to tho.

@Christri 2 жыл бұрын

I took my 150 on the bypass of the rocky sections. I should have taken the rocky section.

@coloradomallcrawlers 2 жыл бұрын

That’s why we make these!

@Dangit-Dave 2 жыл бұрын

Hey, I have a grand Cherokee trailhawk and looking to tag along with some overlanders. Where’s the sauce to participate in adventures?

@coloradomallcrawlers 2 жыл бұрын

Hey, right now everything is last minute due to my job and announced on my personal Facebook page. My job supports this channel so I have to work around that… maybe later, I’ll have a better method, but I’m call 24/7 so it’s the reason for the last minute film days. Thanks for watching!

@Dangit-Dave 2 жыл бұрын

@@coloradomallcrawlers no worries, thanks for the content!

@mike-pl8sn 2 жыл бұрын

Not really a trail of a bumpy road I have taken a Subaru brat up there in the 1980s and 90s. It can actually be done in a car. I went up there last year in my Rubicon and never even put it in four-wheel-drive so I ask why are you doing any kind of an off-road test up at St. Mary’s glacier

@coloradomallcrawlers 2 жыл бұрын

I love these kind of comments… let’s take your 2wd car (not the rubicon) on it and I’ll definitely film it! I simply show the trail so you can decide if it’s ok for you and your ride. It’s ok to disagree with us. Let me get this right tho, you rate what I posted as a bumpy road you can do in a car? You did see one of these vehicles never made it home, right? I think I’m glad you don’t give recommendations to others.

@seanwatson3790 2 жыл бұрын

So you're willing to bring your Toyota Corolla to the top right ? On video ? 0 issues right ?

@comptonoverland7442 2 жыл бұрын

There is all kinds of gnarly side trails up there 2wd those ??

@HarmonyE99 2 жыл бұрын

Please keep me posted on when the car version of this guide will be shot. Will be there with lawn chairs and popcorn for all

@seanwatson3790 2 жыл бұрын

@@HarmonyE99 😂😂