great day wheeling.Don and Steve,thanks for tagging along with us.I hope our mix of straight trail riding and then putting in a trail ride with obstacles showed our desire to cover all aspects for EVERYONE on a ride.
We had 8 rigs in total ranging from my stock Willys up to Steve and Don's built rigs.Started of doing Dickie Belle to shake out the cobwebs.No issues here other than an over heated and leaking tranny in a cj7.that issue was cared for and finnished out at the double parking lot.Ran RML up to Kodak to play over the ledge of which most did and then play at Kodak.I struggled just a little working around the ledge and the fj cruiser had to be straped over after becoming high centered on it but that is part of the fun.
After some playtime on Kodak,we took the big loop around to do Dutch John with a lot of time spent just riding along enjoying the great outdoors.Finnished back up at the double parking lot again.No issues at all on this nice long relaxing drive.
It was now 4pm and we had discussed doing Daniel from both directions.After Steve called me a girlie man and twisted my arm a bit,I decided to run up the hill with them.I gotta try that new locker sometime.Then Sandy wanted to do it too since she is sporting a new engine.Well long story short we ALL went to cotton place and went up hill.Only pulled strap one time and that was to get the cj7 onto the first ledge since his carb was acting up.With good spotting , good directions,and in my case just a little rock stacking,we all made it up Daniel in good fashion.It was a good way to finnish out the day.
I'm terrible with names but this was our group yesterday:
Me (ord.sgt.26NC) 1950 Willys M38 with
Rox/mud,zjmom,and their son riding along since their rigs are all either in a state of repair or being built.
Don (granny) and his grand son on his lifted/stretched cj5
Steve(89wrngler) nicely modified yj
Sandy(sandyw) red yj on 33s
A friend of Sandy's and his daughter on a cj7 on 35s
expoderpilot on his nice Late model 4runner on 32s
Tom/friend(tlucier) and his fancy smancy tj nicely modified
and a couple on a fj cruiser that came with exploderpilot.Very nice folks and very good working slightly modified rig.
Now time to get geared up for Callalente July 4th weekend.Thanks again to all that rode on this day trip.