Labor day weekend in Moab

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First of all I want to thank Bart for hauling me to Moab, and giving me a day and a half on the trail Then I want to thank Jenn, GOAT and Herzog for hauling me around for the rest of the day. And I probably should thank Chad and Tyler for giving me a ride home or something

Day 1
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12 rigs hit the trail and we managed to get firsties

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Chewy

Chad starting up Chewy



Chad's Irok's not rok ing

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Bart got into the soft soft shoulder




Jenn showing Chewy who's boss

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Obligatory ARB fixing picture

 

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Bart on Rocker Knocker

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Chad on Rocker Knocker

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GOAT thought it would be awesome to put a hole in his tranny pan while waiting for his turn up RK.... He and Jenn drove back out to the trailer and went into town to fix his pan for Sunday.

 

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Bart entertaining the crowd on Rockpile

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On to Behind the Rocks backwards

Bart on White Knuckle







Bart's son in law

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Chad lettin'er buck

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Chad getin it done

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We ended up getting back to town around 9pm because Jared had the misfortune of buying a Novak radiator.... it takes a long time to get through Behind the Rocks when you have to stop every 10 minutes for the Jeep to cool down.

One of the times we were stopped....

Hiding in what shade we could find, Bart and I are sitting in his Jeep facing the other two Jeeps. I see a Jack Rabbit walking towards us from the sage brush about 15 feet out... right as I start to say something about it he gets close enough to see everyone standing around the Jeeps (there was a cedar tree in his way)... the rabbits reaction to this is to kick it into high gear... one bound, then here comes the second and I realize that it's a full on jump targeted at my lap .... so what I started to say turned into a word that I'll never get past the curse filter..... (if he had made it in the Jeep he would have torn the **** out Bart and I).... So... rabbit flying through the air, ears laid back, teeth bared, looking like he should have a cape on.... unfortunately for said rabbit, his aim was off and he bounced off of Barts rock slider, thumped to the ground and walked off looking all sorts of drunk. He made it back to some cover and tipped over, he looked like he might just be in shock, but after a bit you could tell that he had crushed his larynx......

 

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Sunday
Coyote Canyon

We are greeted by an S-10 bodied K5 with his steering box ripped of his frame..... They got that drug out of the way and we started up the trail, Bart promptly exploded the knuckle joint and stock outer that he had just told me about how he had a alloy outer and CTM waiting to go in... d0h

Bart's friend Jake also found out that he had slightly broken his D60 lockout, so Bart, Jared and Jake decided to drive some easy stuff until time to leave at 3pm. The rest of the guys convinced (boy that was hard ) me to stay and ride with them.

I didn't take any pics on the way up Coyote, boy has the last obstacle ever changed over the summer, it easily had 1.5 foot of dirt piled in it, and the right side has a ton of rocks stacked on top of that

Here are a few pics on the way down

 

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On to Helldorado

GOAT

 

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Herzog




Tanner

 

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Chad

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Someone was broke down bad just around the corner so we switched to Minor Threat

Herzog

 

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Tanner





He got a little bound up



After we told him that his 9" housing was twisting he allowed Herzog to winch his front end around enough to let him past the rock

 

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On to Hell's Revenge

Jenn was gracious enough to share her LJ and her AC with me

I only took the camera out for GOAT's final hurrah in the big hot tub


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He missed it by --><-- that much



You get a good view of the patched up pan

 

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Vid of part of the recovery

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GOAT showing Mrs GOAT his broken nail



Sure glad that cable wasn't a rope




Chad underestimated how much we kept telling him to move himself and his Jeep before we purged the cylinders....



DeadEye J rolled up right before dark, waited and ran out with us. GOAT managed to push his radiator into the fan when it hit the tube fender, so it could only run for short stretches... (wasn't that how Saturday ended???? ). DeadEye J ran the trail, Chad pulled GOAT and Jenn and I followed up, all while Tyler (Chad's kid) ran the whole way out spotting for people with a flash light.

 

[Kiel]

That looks like some crazy fun you guys had. Marcus told me he was gonna give the hot tub one last hoorah before he tears into it for some full widths. well now I know what happened. Whats funny is just over a year ago we did the same recovery with Tim at the exact same place

 

[Greg]

Nice pics man, looks like it was a good time!

 

[moabrangler]

Yea it does look like they had a lot of fun an games, an a GR8 time was probally had by all.

 

[unltd1]

YEAH! Had a great time guys! Thanks for letting a little girl wheel with the big boys...