Radical Hill Colorado Trail Guide | Stock Jeep, Touareg, Cherokee

We take on a Radical Hill with a stock Jeep Wrangler, and lightly modified VW Touareg and Cherokee. Radical Hill is a Summit County Off-Road trail, some consider it the most challenging in the area. It has rock obstacles, steep loose climbs, enough wetness to make your tires lose grip, narrow sketchy shelf roads with a decent off camber lean towards the cliff's edge. Funtreks and TrailsOffroad give it a difficult or difficult/severe rating.

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Timestamps:
Intro: 0:00
Trail from the sky: 0:11
How to get here: 0:37
Our 1st Test/Vehicle Info: 1:11
Summit Co Views during a brief reprieve: 2:56
It gets Rough: 3:30
Rad Hill in the fog: 4:30
Long Steep Climb: 5:15
Rock Obstacle #1: 5:45
Cherokee's Turn: 6:18
Touareg"s Turn: 6:45
Dewie Fails: 7:52
Rock Obstacle #2: 10:25
Old Cabin: 12:40
Rough Shelf Road: 13:17
It gets tippy: 14:45
It gets worse? 15:32
The top... its ok: 16:35
Trail review: 17:30
Trail Break Down, not breakdown: 18:20
Other Summit Trails: 19:02

Drivers:
Zach: 1996 Jeep Cherokee XJ, 3 in lift, 31.7in MTs. IG: @Chaotic_Colorado
Sam: 2010 Volkswagen Touareg, 2.5in lift, 32.1in ATs. IG @iamsambowambo
Dewie Jones: 2021 Jeep Wrangler JLR - Stock no lift and 33in MTs. IG: @dewiejones

Channel Info:
My name is Dewie Jones and I’m the reluctant host, 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, Land Cruisers, VW Touregs, and Renegades. We decided Colorado Mallcrawlers was a funny name so that's how we got here.

Additionally, just created this skiing channel, Colorado Plankers (aka skiers). The skiing content I once published here is getting a lot of new viewers so I we started this. Mallcrawlers will continue to publish off-road videos and hopefully they'll get even better from making more content on skiing.

For trail planning, I use the Funtreks Books (amazon search: Funtreks books). I have the current editions of the Colorado books and Moab. I finish up my trail planning with trails offroad as they can sometimes have more detail as well as user submitted current conditions feedback. I’m testing GPS apps and currently don’t use one. Here’s my video that tells you how I do it.    • Find off-road trails the BEST way!  

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