It's a temperate rain forest. It generates it's own rain from moisture in the air from the Pacific Ocean. There are plants and critters everywhere. It only takes about a year or so for the plants to take over a skid road and make it pretty much impassable without busting brush. You can drive down a trail and two or three days later your tracks are just gone. The dry side is much different and takes a much different TJ build. More like the folks in Colorado.Awesome pictures. I always love seeing so much vegetation
Edited to add: One of the reasons that I air down, and it's not for traction, is to keep the ground loading to a minimum. Soil compaction is a real issue on the coast range trails. If the soil gets tightly compacted, the plants won't grow in it as easily and the rain and runoff tears the trails up something fierce. Worst case, it can cause the whole hillside to come down from erosion. There is more than one reason to air down and tread lightly. Same sorts of things can happen if you decide to get a little loose and enthusiastic on a muddy trail. Tear it up and it tends to wash out and get really ugly really fast.
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