Myself (00 XJ), Verdexj (98 XJ), my little brother and dad (02 TJ) cruized down to the Rubicon this Saturday. We actually drove the trial Sunday and Monday and drove home yesterday.
I have watched videos of the rubicon, read tons of trail reports on various forums, bought a book on it, etc..... and I still wasn't mentally prepared for this trail. Being it was all of our's first time, we took a lot of junk and had our vehicles pretty well prepared. This trail was very long, technical, dirty, slippery and long, did I mention that it took a long time? It seemed like it never let up. I found myself wishing for my YJ and 35's periodically. Even though we all had 33" tires, were locked front and rear and had winches, it was still incredibly challenging. It was totally different from Moab. Moab actually gets the pucker factor up higher because of the drop offs, etc... I liken the Rubicon to more of a lower helldorado kind of trail with a lot taller rockers and about a million more.
I expected it to be a little more crowded. As it was there were probably only 20 other wheelers on the trail. We did get some digital video which we might post the link to, but for the most part we were just too busy driving and spotting.
Damage:
A couple scratches on VERDEXJ, and a bungered rear drive line
I broke a zirk fitting on a drag link end have now got a weird differential noise
Not too bad, overall that was one he!! of a trail.
I have watched videos of the rubicon, read tons of trail reports on various forums, bought a book on it, etc..... and I still wasn't mentally prepared for this trail. Being it was all of our's first time, we took a lot of junk and had our vehicles pretty well prepared. This trail was very long, technical, dirty, slippery and long, did I mention that it took a long time? It seemed like it never let up. I found myself wishing for my YJ and 35's periodically. Even though we all had 33" tires, were locked front and rear and had winches, it was still incredibly challenging. It was totally different from Moab. Moab actually gets the pucker factor up higher because of the drop offs, etc... I liken the Rubicon to more of a lower helldorado kind of trail with a lot taller rockers and about a million more.
I expected it to be a little more crowded. As it was there were probably only 20 other wheelers on the trail. We did get some digital video which we might post the link to, but for the most part we were just too busy driving and spotting.
Damage:
A couple scratches on VERDEXJ, and a bungered rear drive line
I broke a zirk fitting on a drag link end have now got a weird differential noise
Not too bad, overall that was one he!! of a trail.
