MOAB 17-21

[Goose]

MOAB, (pritchet, greenday, heldo)

Im a little late posting this up, better late than never.
I thought some might like to see some trail pics before they head down next week.
we started by hitting pritchet thurs morn. the trail was in great shape! (thanks to the friends of moab crew!) always a fun trail! chewey was a little taller & there was a couple spots with some water pools, other than that it was another great day in pritchet.
D climbed the rok pile in his runner, I made it up the big double steps that come out of the sandy wash, which was a first for me.
we ran into a couple guys from RME (turbohaulic) we had a good time hangin out with them for a bit.

heres a few pics

 

[Goose]

fri, it was pretty cold & snowing. & joe broke his hub & stub shaft on his CJ so we went out on cliff hanger while his rig was getting fixed. we went back into town & hit the diner for lunch then headded out & hit the rim

heres a pic on top of the rim

 

[Goose]

sat, we headed out to BFE to play around on green day & heldorado.
we started on green day & headed up the wash, I had not gone up the wash before, theres some fun stuff in there. when we got to suicide hill, I decide I wanted to give it go. footage of that climb just doesnt do it justice, that is a pretty dicy climb. I think I did my best driving of the weekend, coming down suicide hill in reverse I hit it a handfull of times & came real close on a couple, with my tires over the top ledge.
After green day we went & hit heldo, the gatekeeper had a pretty deep pool of water in front of it, so we dropped in from the side.
then made our way through the tight corner (bolth our rigs are pretty big so its always real tight)
then made it to the breakover rok, last time I opted to try & squeeze throught the boulder & the canyon wall & I got lodged pretty good so I wanted to try it again after I lodged myself in the exact same spot I ended up snapping the 2 bolts on my housing that act as U-bolts for the leafspring on the pas side. so we lashed some ratchet stapps on to hold the axle in place.
It seemed to hold quite well, I checked the staps again when we got up to the water fall. D could tell I wanted to climb it again, so he told me to go for it.
I probably shouldnt have, but I did anyway. I made it the first try (fun climb!)
then we headed out to the trailers before it got dark.

heres a few more pics



& heres a couple clips

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2nk2-xv7CE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJHHLGAuJo8

 

[lewis]

Jealous

 

[Goose]

Jealous

are you going down for EJS?

 

[lewis]

are you going down for EJS?

Seeing your pics makes me hungry for it but school is in the way for one last time(hopefully). That and my truck is in need of some work before it can leave the garage again.

 

[J Kimmel]

after I lodged myself in the exact same spot I ended up snapping the 2 bolts on my housing that act as U-bolts for the leafspring on the pas side. ( Ill try & load a vid clip later)

That was why I ended up linking my front, I broke those damn studs three times in one summer. The last time I had gathered most all of my stuff for links, and I tried to easy out the broken studs like the last two times and this time I snapped the easy out into 100 pieces, so in went the links

great pics

 

[Goose]

thats about where Im at right now. This is the third or forth time that Ive had to mess with that lame design. I already had plans to link it, I may do it sooner than I planned.

 

[turbohaulic]

Green day and heldorado look tough. Someday I'll have to try it out! Good pics

 

[Goose]

Green day and heldorado look tough. Someday I'll have to try it out! Good pics

greenday you can make it as tough as you want, theres some great obstacles, heldo is a slot cayon once your in your committed.

 

[zukijames]

idk if you just suck at trip reports or what you always have sweet pics and hardly anyone comments on them

 

[Goose]

I always enjoy checkin out trail reports, so I always try to return the favor.
but I deffinately suck at it.

 

[choptopbII]

ohh didn't even see this until today haha

Looks like you guys had a blast, Your yota just plain and simple works awesome on the rocks!

 

[Goose]

ohh didn't even see this until today haha

Looks like you guys had a blast, Your yota just plain and simple works awesome on the rocks!

thanks man! right back at ya.
yeah we had a blast!! I think we hit at least 5 trails, & we didnt have to spend any time wrenching, which was nice!! wel have to hook up & hit a trail one of these days

 

[zukijames]

i wasnt really saying you suck you do sweet i always get jealous i just wonder why you never get many comments... i think its cause your truck is purple... ive got some purple harnesss that should be here tomorrow

 

[toyota rockhead]

i like your trip reports! you always have good pictures and sweet videos. i think nobody comments on your trip reports because after they look at the report they are speechless because your truck is soo sick and you make everything look easy!

 

[zukijames]

i think your right josh

 

[toyota rockhead]

i think so too because these pictures are awesome! it makes me wish i could have been down there for this trip

 

[lostsamurai]

Very nice i like the videos we were spose to be down there today but we woke up to 6 inches of snow and everyone chickened out, prolly gonna head out monday, i hope i do as wel as you thats a sick yota

 

[Goose]

thanks! your sami looks like a sweet machine as well!!
yeah the weather has been screwy!! hopefully you can get down there & enjoy some sunshine! good luck & throw some pics up when you get back, so I can see your rig in action.