We started our trip by arriving in town Friday morning and heading straight to area BFE. It was surprising that we were the only ones there, but we went ahead and started running a trail. I am not very familiar with BFE and this was my first time there in the Mosquito, and I gotta say that place is a BLAST! When I get rich I'm going to be stuffing hundred dollar bills in the donation box every time I go to say thanks to the guys who bought it and opened it 
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The first trail we tried was Lockjaw. Lots of fun and several different lines with some fairly hefty ledges. At the top we continued on until we saw the sign for Green Day. We poked around there for awhile, getting stuck once in a narrow steep spot (see photo) and climbing what I think is called Suicide Hill. Again, cool obstacles everywhere and I'm sure we missed some because we were pretty much lost (and grinning from ear to ear) the whole time.
We came back down what I think is called Minor Threat (the one that parallels the dirt road uphill from the start of Upper Helldorado). It would have been fun to drive back up that one, but we were needing to get back to the RV. On the way out to the highway we passed some rigs coming in and turned around to check them out. I didn't realize it at the time but they are on the forum too since I've seen pictures of those rigs on here today. There was a tube buggy with a green hood and white skull (badbuggy, I think), a rockwelled orange tube buggy, and a really nice red tube buggy with an 8.1L in it. Nice guys and killer rigs.
I have a few still photos of Friday, but I also have a bunch of video footage from it including suicide hill and my dad is working on getting the video to where I can post it here even as I type this. Any input on how to do this would be mucho appreciado.
Saturday we met Robert and his wife Misty and headed up Rusty Nail. We met up with three other people at the trail head. Robert was in a white YJ, Jason was in a nicely built toyota pickup, Mark was in a CJ-7 and one other guy whose name escapes me right now was in a pretty much stock CJ-5 with 33 inch tires.
I hadn't been on Rusty Nail for a good ten years and I didn't know what to expect. The Mosquito crawled everyting fine, but some of the group had that "What in name of all that is sanity related have you gotten us into?" look on their faces. Lots of laughs and lots of winching later, everybody was up. The only carnage so far was a pinhole leak in Roberts power steering pressure line. We had a lot of fluid with the group, so we forged ahead.
The only other somewhat eventful thing was me dislodging my left rear tire from its bead. we used the starting fluid and a lighter technique to re-seat it. Then I emptied a can of fix a flat into it for some pressure. By that time a group behind us caught up and one of the guys had onboard air. I put 10 psi in the tire just to be sure and didn't have a problem the rest of the trip.
Shortly after the intersection of Rusty Nail and Golden Spike we met up with a group of about twenty to thirty ORVs with one of the Red Rock Four Wheelers excursions. They were kind enough to let us pass through and we ran back down Gold Bar Rim to the canyon floor.
It was an awesome trip with minimal carnage, and I'll try to get some of the video on here as soon as I can.
. The first trail we tried was Lockjaw. Lots of fun and several different lines with some fairly hefty ledges. At the top we continued on until we saw the sign for Green Day. We poked around there for awhile, getting stuck once in a narrow steep spot (see photo) and climbing what I think is called Suicide Hill. Again, cool obstacles everywhere and I'm sure we missed some because we were pretty much lost (and grinning from ear to ear) the whole time.
We came back down what I think is called Minor Threat (the one that parallels the dirt road uphill from the start of Upper Helldorado). It would have been fun to drive back up that one, but we were needing to get back to the RV. On the way out to the highway we passed some rigs coming in and turned around to check them out. I didn't realize it at the time but they are on the forum too since I've seen pictures of those rigs on here today. There was a tube buggy with a green hood and white skull (badbuggy, I think), a rockwelled orange tube buggy, and a really nice red tube buggy with an 8.1L in it. Nice guys and killer rigs.
I have a few still photos of Friday, but I also have a bunch of video footage from it including suicide hill and my dad is working on getting the video to where I can post it here even as I type this. Any input on how to do this would be mucho appreciado.
Saturday we met Robert and his wife Misty and headed up Rusty Nail. We met up with three other people at the trail head. Robert was in a white YJ, Jason was in a nicely built toyota pickup, Mark was in a CJ-7 and one other guy whose name escapes me right now was in a pretty much stock CJ-5 with 33 inch tires.
I hadn't been on Rusty Nail for a good ten years and I didn't know what to expect. The Mosquito crawled everyting fine, but some of the group had that "What in name of all that is sanity related have you gotten us into?" look on their faces. Lots of laughs and lots of winching later, everybody was up. The only carnage so far was a pinhole leak in Roberts power steering pressure line. We had a lot of fluid with the group, so we forged ahead.
The only other somewhat eventful thing was me dislodging my left rear tire from its bead. we used the starting fluid and a lighter technique to re-seat it. Then I emptied a can of fix a flat into it for some pressure. By that time a group behind us caught up and one of the guys had onboard air. I put 10 psi in the tire just to be sure and didn't have a problem the rest of the trip.
Shortly after the intersection of Rusty Nail and Golden Spike we met up with a group of about twenty to thirty ORVs with one of the Red Rock Four Wheelers excursions. They were kind enough to let us pass through and we ran back down Gold Bar Rim to the canyon floor.
It was an awesome trip with minimal carnage, and I'll try to get some of the video on here as soon as I can.
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