I was going to say “ I like having my rusty old rig built in the 1940s get as much attention as rigs that cost 10 to 15 times as much as we both sit at the top of the same obstacle.” But I decided I wouldn’t. Seemed a little a little flat fender snobbish when I read it back. Don’t want to be like that.
I chuckle at this each year. I ran Jax Trax the first year they offered it and I was about 30 vehicles back. We came to the only "real" obstacle on the trail, a slickrock fin with a bump at the top. Every vehicle ahead of me was a JK of some variety, and everyone took the bypass saying over the CB, "Oh, that looks pretty tough. Don't think I want to risk it." Mind you, many of these JK's had 4" lifts, 37" tires, ect. ect. I rolled up in my Trooper, looked at the obstacle and said, "Eh? That's nothing." and went right up without so much as a chirp of a tire. Then my Dad in his Trooper followed me up. Of 40 vehicles on the trail, only the Troopers sporting nothing but rear LSD's and 32" tires went up.
Now I get it, we have decades of experience and our vehicles cost $700 a piece, so we really don't care too much if something happens to them (aside from having to drive them home). But a stock JKUR should have
no issue on any trail down there save ones like Pritchett. So each year I just shake my head at these guys with $100k into a JK and they're bump wimps. Maybe that makes me an ass, I don't know. But I miss the old days when there was such a mix of vehicles and the fun of the whole thing was watching all these different rigs make it through the trail. Now, honestly, its gotten a bit boring.
