Brimstone Recreation Trail Review: Rebel Yell (44Y)

If you're looking for a Extreme Trail to try at Brimstone then look no farther than the Rebel Yell!  We dropped off onto this incredibly rough trail during a July 2016 outing and we felt it was worth a dedicated article.  Our group was on a variety of four wheel drive sport utility atv's and the rear was anchored by a newer Polaris 900 Ranger.  We had riders with a wide range of trail worthy experience, the least rider with only a handful of  hours on a brand new Can-Am Outlander 650.

Most folks that frequent Brimstone Recreation camp on the north side of the trail system where the Brimstone Office and Trails End Campground can be found.  To locate 44Y you'll have to look at the bottom of the Brimstone trail system map.  Rebel Yell is about as far south as possible, it'll take a couple hours to make the voyage over a hand full of trails and back roads.  If you're wanting to make 44Y more extreme than it already is try accenting it from trail 110, Muley.

From the very start, dropping down into the Rebel Yell and you'll quickly get an understanding of what to expect the rest of the decent.  It's fairly steep and rutted, but if this looks too rough I'd advise you to turn around.  This is just the beginning of what to expect and trust me, it gets much more extreme!  After negotiating a couple of tight hair pin turns, more steep and rutted descents you'll come to a very dangerous rock ledge decent.  We were all certain there had likely been more than one Rebel Yell screamed out here!  This ledge is positioned on top of a crest and there is absolutely no way around it!  Let me assure you that if you make a mistake at this location your ride will end up trashed at the bottom of the mountain and what's left will have to be recovered piece by piece.

To get down this section of the Rebel Yell we tied off to the back of the quads with a long rope.  Everyone then assisted lowering each atv-utv down one by one.  Once past this section of 44Y, don't get discouraged if this dangerous section wasn't extreme enough for you, because you're less than halfway through.  Next you'll traverse, what seemed like a mile, of steep mountain decent that's extremely rutted.  Again one mistake on this and whatever you're riding will become a rolling projectile and if it doesn't take any other riders out in the process you'd be left with scrap metal.

Once we came out the bottom of trail 44Y we merged onto Muley, Trail 110.  Muley is marked a moderate difficulty trail on the map and I certainly wasn't the only one in the group glad to see it.  If you're looking for a extreme trail at Brimstone Recreation we certainly recommend the Rebel Yell.  This trail should fill every riders need for some challenge, danger and risk for the trip!