Went better than any of my trips so far. The trails are marked ok, and it's definitely a safer place to ride than tower city. (tower city has cliffs and nearly bottomless caverns to fall into, you can throw a rock into some of these pits and never hear it hit the bottom, and there is a trail that goes RIGHT along the edge of one which is nuts). I didn't even break anything on the quad! Well, a few of those stupid ass flags, but that's it. I gotta clean the sand out of my clutch cable and many other places, and my shitty tusk tie rod end has a lot of free play, but this is the first trip that didn't require at least $300 in repairs. I'm definitely at least getting a clamp on k&n with an outerwears before I go next time, because from going through the mud pits frequently my uni got pretty wet which probably isn't good. I almost had a bad wipeout on one of the hillclimbs I tried, because I got caught in a jeep rut and ended up pretty damn out of control when I hit the lip at the top. There's definitely parts better suited for utility quads, and some places that allow jeeps only. A tow strap would have been really helpful, but they don't allow tow straps with metal hooks so I couldn't use mine (what kind of tow strap DOESN'T have metal hooks?). Warriors really suck once they get stuck! The feel like a hell of a lot more than 400 lbs when they're sitting on the frame in mud ruts.
I have a few pictures to put up when I get free time, and also I have about 20 minutes of video to pick through and i'll post some of that eventually.
If anyone is interested, i'm planning a trip with a few other guys, probably the first week of august. Most likely we'll ride a day at paragon, camp there, and then drive down to rausch creek (about 45 minutes) for the 2nd day.
One more thing about paragon - don't go unless you have at least a .250" swingarm skid, and you should have an extra tie rod and ends too. Some of the trails have a lot of rock crawling, which is fun and challenging, but can be hard on the quad when you make mistakes.