For all of you that missed it, you miss a great trip. I will try and recap now and then add in some pictures later.
Laura and I rolled out of Kamas at about 730 pm on Tuesday night. After putting a full day at the shop we still had a couple deliveries to make. We met Carl at Joe's diesel in SLC and we headed on down the road. Carl had to make a stop from his trip down through the wet lands. He couldn't see because there was six inches thick of bugs covering the front of the truck and camper. We stopped just short of the Moab airport and slept from 0200 until 0600.
We got up and headed into town. We met up with Steve St Clair and a few other guys and shortly we were on our way to Behind the rocks. Behind the Rocks treated everyone well over the first few obstacles until we got to High Dive Canyon. Everyone got down it ok, you can fall down anything, but a Dana 20 Output Shaft gave way on a Bronco and we had to get him back to town. Carl and I set up camp at the BTR Trail head.
The next morning we rolled into town for some fuel and met up with some more guys from the club. Tony Branca joined us for the run up Green Day at BFE. We headed out late that morning and wanted to return for the raffle, so we chose not to run Minor Threat as part of Green Day like usual. We did conquer most of the major obstacles. I pulled up on one and didn't wait for a spotter, of course I gently set the buggy down on her side. The guys pushed it back on its wheels and away we went again until a different Bronco Dana 20 output shaft snapped. A front axle snapped as well. We ended up finishing around 1630 and left both buggys at our BFE camp site. I trailered one rig back to camp for repairs. The show and shine was still going on so we headed over there to check out the perty rigs.
Well some were pretty and I kinda felt bad for not bringing mine down. With lots of help from every one we set up the Raffle and our Sexton Offroad booth for the night. Every one had a great time with great food and the Big winner was John who won every Speed hut Gauge and a Wire harness. The next morning was the UBC Sponsored run so we all headed for bed.
We started off at nine with everyone lined up ready to run. We headed up the 313 road to the top of Metal Masher and Unloaded. We started with 16 rigs, mostly Broncos. Before we came to the first major obstacle all five lug nuts sheered off on one wheel and we had a trail repair to do. This delayed us for about an hour but shortly we were on the way with the offending Bronco headed back to town to get ready for tommorrow. We reached the first obstacle and I put the tires off center, got the front end up, straightened out, rolled forward a bit, Rapped the Throttle and up she went. Carl did the same. A couple others wisely chose the bypass but a very capable Jeep did not. The Jeep lined up and gave it a three attempts. On the Third try it snapped a Dana 20 Output shaft (are you seeing a trend). We repaired that as best we could and he headed back to town. The rest of us moved on to Rock Chucker for lunch. I pulled up to Rock Chucker and spotted everyone that wished to try it up to the top. After lunch we headed up Mirror Gulch which is a fun little obstacle for everybody (no Bypass on this one). We hit the Top overlook and all the Bronco's posed for a Calender photo. We soon rolled out and on the way down stopped at Billy Bob. Nobody had any problems on Billy Bob, so we headed for Widow maker.
The group that didn't want to climb Widow Maker took the by pass and the rest of us headed to the bottom. We made our attempts on Widow Maker and had a couple of really close calls for Roll overs and one Busted Dana 44 Stub shaft. A few Made it up with no problem and a few needed the strap. We all made it up and headed to Mother in-law for some play time. After a few minutes at mother in-law we headed for the trailers and returned to Camp.
Carl and I Camped at the bottom of Prittchet that night and were finishing up breakfast when the group rolled in with Swasey leading the trail for the day. Prichett went very well with out a hitch. Every one wheeled hard with Bronco Bob using his 31" spare tires to climb the obstacles. Richard Fischer had a minor scare on the obstacle called Chewy. He almost rolled over and needed a strap. Everyone was in a groove by the time we got to Rock Pile. Mike Swasey made it first, followed by a couple of attempts that didn't go so well. One attempt ended with some wheel in the air action and yet another Broken Output shaft. Carl and I were the only other rigs that made Rock Pile with out a strap. I took Peggy up Rock Pile as a passenger. I don't know if her screams were enjoyment or fear?
We made the top of Yellow hill around 1500 and Carl and I turned around and headed back down Prichett while the rest of the group took the other route out. Carl and I made it back to the trailers before the others could make the trek around through Moab. The group hung out at our trailers for a couple hours until it was decidedly time for a night run up Hells Revenge. We traveled over to the end of HR and ate Dinner. After dark we all loaded up and went the back way into HR. We went down Tip Over challenge in the dark and came upon a Rented JK flipped over on its lid at the Escalator. It was a bit creepy all by itself and blocked the obstacle so we headed for the hot tubs. After a quick trip to the Hot tubs on top we turned around and headed back to camp.
It was a great trip and I hope to do more soon. Thanks for everyone that participated
I hear Jason walked away from this without a scratch! What a flop!
