Despite the warning of lots of rain, i busted my ass on thursday getting the spool installed. I left around 4, hit I-15 traffic for about an hour 
I forgot to put on windshield wipers, so i didnt have those at all on the way down. I got in around 830 and met my friends from CU - Boulder at sand flats. Camped, drank, rock climbed, all the fun stuff. We got up the next morning and hit up hells revenge. This was my first time wheeling with a manual, so i almost stalled and rolled down the entrance to hells revenge. Finished that, went to dump bump, and i finally conquered it on my tenth try or so. It poured rain all the afternoon and night. I went into town for food and beer, the moab cop that pulled up next to me gave me strange looks when i had no doors on and i was wearing a garbage bag (for the rain). he just made a smart ass comment like, "I bet you wish you had your doors at a time like this" (no sh*t). we just drank ourselves dry that night and luckily it stopped raining at about 10 or I would have had a wet night in the back of the Toy. Ran lower helldorado the next day. We were hoping for an easy quick run, but a K5 on 42s broke a hub on the first obstacle and that was only one of 10 people in front of us. We rallied through the whole trail in like 45 minutes and proceeded to go watch some rigs try upper hell that were not destined to make it. later hit up potato salad hill and went swimming at the power dams. All in all, it was a real fun trip and good to see my friends from CO. I wish those of you who didnt make it could have. It would have been fun to run pritchett with Herzog and Wayne, maybe next time guys when i dont have insane amounts of homework. Without further ado, heres the pics.
*EDIT* if any of the pics dont work, yahoo is screwy like that, they are under
http://photos.yahoo.com/jjj5283 under the fall break album
I forgot to put on windshield wipers, so i didnt have those at all on the way down. I got in around 830 and met my friends from CU - Boulder at sand flats. Camped, drank, rock climbed, all the fun stuff. We got up the next morning and hit up hells revenge. This was my first time wheeling with a manual, so i almost stalled and rolled down the entrance to hells revenge. Finished that, went to dump bump, and i finally conquered it on my tenth try or so. It poured rain all the afternoon and night. I went into town for food and beer, the moab cop that pulled up next to me gave me strange looks when i had no doors on and i was wearing a garbage bag (for the rain). he just made a smart ass comment like, "I bet you wish you had your doors at a time like this" (no sh*t). we just drank ourselves dry that night and luckily it stopped raining at about 10 or I would have had a wet night in the back of the Toy. Ran lower helldorado the next day. We were hoping for an easy quick run, but a K5 on 42s broke a hub on the first obstacle and that was only one of 10 people in front of us. We rallied through the whole trail in like 45 minutes and proceeded to go watch some rigs try upper hell that were not destined to make it. later hit up potato salad hill and went swimming at the power dams. All in all, it was a real fun trip and good to see my friends from CO. I wish those of you who didnt make it could have. It would have been fun to run pritchett with Herzog and Wayne, maybe next time guys when i dont have insane amounts of homework. Without further ado, heres the pics. *EDIT* if any of the pics dont work, yahoo is screwy like that, they are under
http://photos.yahoo.com/jjj5283 under the fall break album
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