Heh, yeah I was the only guy on a sport quad. I was afraid I would hold the group up if we got into snow, but I guess I'm a little more experienced than some of them. We did go up one canyon that we had to turn around in because the snow was getting too deep, but I felt good that they gave up before I had to. While a lot of people got stuck, I never did.
You're probably glad you didn't come. The trip ended up taking us about 9 hours. I got home at about 7:30pm. It wouldn't have taken so long, but some guy split off from the group and went back to camp without telling us. So we looked for him for about an hour. And then when we went up the canyon that we had to turn around in set us back another hour.
If i knew the trail well enough (which I don't) I think our crew could do the trip in about half the time. I felt like I was one gear too slow almost the whole time. There were a few nice graded roads that we got on that I was able to slow down and then open up on, but I always caught the guy in front of me pretty fast.
The people were cool. There were about 25 in our group. I think the average age was probably 50. I'd do it again in a second. Everyone looked out for each other, we had some good laughs, and most importantly, I rode for 9 hours straight.
There were a ton of good trails. We rode a few full size trails, but mostly ATV trials or jeep trials.
I did make it to Eureka on 1 tank of gas. So I didn't need the 1 gallon gas can that I brought. Luckily after about 3 miles in some guy offered to carry my gas can for me. The only way I could get it attached securely was to have it hanging off my rear grab bar. So it was swinging like a pendulum the whole time.