Rich
Asshole at large
- Joined
- Mar 17, 2005
- Location
- Central PA
Went up with RKBJR, Yotaman, and Benjie (AKA "Boggerboy").. Actually, RK, Benjie, and Roy from GA(?) started wheeling Thursday, but Yotaman and I rolled in Thursday afternoon. Along for the ride was Shey(sp?) riding with Yotaman, Jody (who got to enjoy the RV life) riding with Benjie, and Bradley, riding with RK..
Total carnage was not terribly bad in the whole group, since they all made it back to the trailers, still running.. Benjie broke a leaf spring and had to make the 15th fix on his traction bar, RK got a pinhole in his PS pressure line and some very random, unexplained body damage
, and Yotaman blew up his clutch. I peeled back part of my roof panel on a tree when i wasn't paying attention.
Day 2 (day 1 for me) was Schoolbus, Slickrock, and helicopter (twice after a group of 20+ Jeeps stayed on guardrail until well into the evening and we couldn't get past). A few guys got pretty pissed when someone poured some water on slickrock, and a guy got slid around kinda sideways when he stayed in it a little too long after starting to slide. I thought it was kinda funny.. they didn't seem to.
Day 3 (day 2 for me) was basically lower and upper 2. We ran it before there was hardly anyone there, then hung out for a long time, watching all sorts of rigs including big block cab trucks, a slew of comp buggies, a really clean big block buggy on 44's being driven by a 12 year old (and he didn't take any of the easy lines), and these odd looking "Prowler" things that was a Jeep Grand Cherokee cut up and put into a chassis.. axles, driveline, even the steering column and shifters. They were all out of Illinois IIRC. I don't really understand the idea behind it (the whole driveline, axles and all were stock CV-jointed D30/8.25, 4.0L 6 cylinder, etc..), but they were interesting looking, if nothing else.
Upper 2 was next, a well-used Yota buggy got crossed up and flopped sideways right after the ledge, and the driver banged his noggin pretty hard while trying to right it under power. That dang thing must have run for a full minute on its side... those 22RE's have some kind of magical oiling system! Another guy in a YJ stood it right on the back bumper for a long time before someone was able to get a strap around it and pull the front end down.
One driver of a Yellow Prowler thing decided to be a fuckstick and go up the ledge, and then continue to the left, off the trail from there, despite more than one person telling him he was off the trail, and needed to get back on it.. He argued that since there weren't any signs, that maybe he was on the trail, and that upper 2 was off the trail. He wound his way through the trees where everyone was standing, hitting every one. Here's hoping you get Habanero pepper sauce poured up your ass, dickhead..
Had a great time all in all.. it was a little chilly, but the food was great...I ate better there than I do at home! Venison sausage, pork tenderloin, venison steaks, Johnsonville brats, m-m-m.
OK.. post up the pics! My camera wasn't cooperating so I left it in the truck.
Total carnage was not terribly bad in the whole group, since they all made it back to the trailers, still running.. Benjie broke a leaf spring and had to make the 15th fix on his traction bar, RK got a pinhole in his PS pressure line and some very random, unexplained body damage
, and Yotaman blew up his clutch. I peeled back part of my roof panel on a tree when i wasn't paying attention.Day 2 (day 1 for me) was Schoolbus, Slickrock, and helicopter (twice after a group of 20+ Jeeps stayed on guardrail until well into the evening and we couldn't get past). A few guys got pretty pissed when someone poured some water on slickrock, and a guy got slid around kinda sideways when he stayed in it a little too long after starting to slide. I thought it was kinda funny.. they didn't seem to.
Day 3 (day 2 for me) was basically lower and upper 2. We ran it before there was hardly anyone there, then hung out for a long time, watching all sorts of rigs including big block cab trucks, a slew of comp buggies, a really clean big block buggy on 44's being driven by a 12 year old (and he didn't take any of the easy lines), and these odd looking "Prowler" things that was a Jeep Grand Cherokee cut up and put into a chassis.. axles, driveline, even the steering column and shifters. They were all out of Illinois IIRC. I don't really understand the idea behind it (the whole driveline, axles and all were stock CV-jointed D30/8.25, 4.0L 6 cylinder, etc..), but they were interesting looking, if nothing else.
Upper 2 was next, a well-used Yota buggy got crossed up and flopped sideways right after the ledge, and the driver banged his noggin pretty hard while trying to right it under power. That dang thing must have run for a full minute on its side... those 22RE's have some kind of magical oiling system! Another guy in a YJ stood it right on the back bumper for a long time before someone was able to get a strap around it and pull the front end down.
One driver of a Yellow Prowler thing decided to be a fuckstick and go up the ledge, and then continue to the left, off the trail from there, despite more than one person telling him he was off the trail, and needed to get back on it.. He argued that since there weren't any signs, that maybe he was on the trail, and that upper 2 was off the trail. He wound his way through the trees where everyone was standing, hitting every one. Here's hoping you get Habanero pepper sauce poured up your ass, dickhead..
Had a great time all in all.. it was a little chilly, but the food was great...I ate better there than I do at home! Venison sausage, pork tenderloin, venison steaks, Johnsonville brats, m-m-m.
OK.. post up the pics! My camera wasn't cooperating so I left it in the truck.
