Saving the Trails- what YOU can do

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Off-Roading Tips

• Avoid mud if you can while remaining on the road or trail. If you can't, use low gearing and just enough throttle to maintain forward movement.

• Cross streams slowly, at a 90-degree angle and only at designated trail fording points. This will help minimize stream bed damage and will help keep water out of the engine's air intake.

• Avoid slide slipping, which can start a rut, ultimately leading to erosion.

• Yield the right of way for drivers on the uphill grade or overtaking you.

• Straddle ruts, even if they are wider than your vehicle. This will keep your vehicle level.

• Respect the rights of others while they recreate in the woods, even the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) and Sierra Club members.

• Educate yourself and others about regulations and compliance to barriers, oh, and use maps and proper Leave No Trace ethics.

• Avoid wet meadows, stream banks, chasing wildlife and livestock and tromping on Cryptobiotic soil at all costs.

• Drive responsibly to protect your right to operate my motorized vehicle on roads in WILD lands and to help conserve those lands anyway you can.

• Use "tree safe" equipment for recovery should you need it.

• Leave nothing and take nothing while on the trail.

• Stay within the marked trail, going around an obstacle is cheating yourself, your fun, the challange and the environment.