RockChucker
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What a trip. Great mix of wheelin and giving the little one time to play. Mostly kept it to 1/2 days of wheelin. Naturally I’d have liked to do more wheelin but this was a family trip after all and more than 5 or 6 hrs for a 3 year old is a lot.
12/28:
Started off with a quick run up Double Sammy followed by Front Range. I’d never done Front Range before. It’s a fun trail. Rated 8 I believe. We ran into @Pile of parts and @GER4x4 before we were done. I gave the bowl at the top a fair shake and couldn’t get it done. I backed out and my uncle gave it a try in his newish to him buggy on 42” reds. He couldn’t get it either. As he was backing out, I was guiding him on the same back up line I took. I didn’t account for the fact that he excavated an additional 18”+ sand. As his front passenger tire dropped back into the hole, it didn’t find the bottom and he flopped. Whoops. Quick winch and he was back on his wheels and out.
After we finished front range, the wife and kiddo went and played with my buddy Zack’s wife and kiddos. Arrowhead was next on the agenda.
The group consisted of
@Pile of parts in his CJ that has enough gearing to make a Toyota blush
@GER4x4 in his we’ll built TJ on treps
Zack in his TJ on 39” Kanatis and about 100” wheelbase
Dan in his ultra4 style buggy in 42” reds
Me in my TJ
@kmboren leading this group. He was riding momentarily with Glen since his buggy is down waiting for a radiator.
We started up the trail and got a pretty good feel for what was ahead of us immediately. The canyon wastes no time with big crack exposure. We made pretty short work of the first several obstacles. About 50% through the trail we learned that Zack’s 100” wheelbase wasn’t quite long enough. He had to take the sandy bypass on the same obstacle that caught @Greg and flipped him on his lid. Just not quite enough stretch to be able to crabwalk up onto the ledge. Zack later struggled a couple obstacles later which resulted in slipping into the crack and tweaking a light mount on the a pillar and scuffing the windshield frame. He ended up having to front dig and winch to get up and over that crack. But everyone made it through without any major problems. Count that as a win!
I need to get more video uploaded to YouTube. Here is the one I have so far…
More to come…
12/28:
Started off with a quick run up Double Sammy followed by Front Range. I’d never done Front Range before. It’s a fun trail. Rated 8 I believe. We ran into @Pile of parts and @GER4x4 before we were done. I gave the bowl at the top a fair shake and couldn’t get it done. I backed out and my uncle gave it a try in his newish to him buggy on 42” reds. He couldn’t get it either. As he was backing out, I was guiding him on the same back up line I took. I didn’t account for the fact that he excavated an additional 18”+ sand. As his front passenger tire dropped back into the hole, it didn’t find the bottom and he flopped. Whoops. Quick winch and he was back on his wheels and out.
After we finished front range, the wife and kiddo went and played with my buddy Zack’s wife and kiddos. Arrowhead was next on the agenda.
The group consisted of
@Pile of parts in his CJ that has enough gearing to make a Toyota blush
@GER4x4 in his we’ll built TJ on treps
Zack in his TJ on 39” Kanatis and about 100” wheelbase
Dan in his ultra4 style buggy in 42” reds
Me in my TJ
@kmboren leading this group. He was riding momentarily with Glen since his buggy is down waiting for a radiator.
We started up the trail and got a pretty good feel for what was ahead of us immediately. The canyon wastes no time with big crack exposure. We made pretty short work of the first several obstacles. About 50% through the trail we learned that Zack’s 100” wheelbase wasn’t quite long enough. He had to take the sandy bypass on the same obstacle that caught @Greg and flipped him on his lid. Just not quite enough stretch to be able to crabwalk up onto the ledge. Zack later struggled a couple obstacles later which resulted in slipping into the crack and tweaking a light mount on the a pillar and scuffing the windshield frame. He ended up having to front dig and winch to get up and over that crack. But everyone made it through without any major problems. Count that as a win!
I need to get more video uploaded to YouTube. Here is the one I have so far…
More to come…
