friday day 1
after we got to crawfords and set up camp, we aired down and decided to hit the trail. after taking trail #1 we split off and took #4. there was not much on trail 4 but a rock ledge that was pretty easy. we both did most of #4 in 2wd. worse mistake of the day was trail #3 since it a dead end and it seemed like we had gone about 5 miles out of our way. we decided to park and check out the map. all of a sudden i hear zack say "SWEET" "i found a GPS". i walked over and checked it out and to me suprise it worked properly. after heading back we decided to hit #11. we did know what was up there but we just wanted to see it. call us posers but our jeeps are both untrailerd and open diff daily drivers
. after gettin turned around we headed back towards #4. but i first we had to pass quater panel tree again. i drove past the off camber section with out scraping the tree. after i cleared the rutts i was getting ready to park and i hear zack yell "OH SHIT" so i got on the cb and asked what happened. i figured that he got in to the tree, but that was not the case. i looked up the trail and his ZJ a few inches from floping over. it was rocking back and fourth. when i got back up to where he was i saw that his passenger rear tire was about 3-4 feet in the air. after i got on his rear bumper he eased it down enough where i could get a pic.
afer getting back on #4 we headed to #5 and fains ford. on the way there i got held up twice, once for a buggy with a blown motor and the other for a 4wheeler with a bent tie rod. these were the ONLY times that we ahd to wait. it was not nearly as crowed as a lot of us expected.
after crossing Fains ford and playin on the rock ledges on the left we continued on to trail #9. when we got to slick rock i was like WTF is pretty dry. so both decided to give it a shot.
Zack was up first and made it about 2/3 on the way up but he got hung up on his 8.8. so he took the cable the rest of the way. when he got to the top i noticed that his winch was a birds nest. we the time to get it straightend out. by that time it was about 9 PM. so it was my turn to come up, i drove nearly to the top but that last tree on the left grabed my driver rear fender. i could not go forward or back so i took the cable also. as i was winching up i started to slide to the left, i tried to steer out of it but it was too went. i slid into another tree and recive a nice dent in the windshelid frame. after the winch fest it was about 10:30 pm. getting past slick rock and the rock face after it was the easy part. now we came up to the BIG ASS wall at the top on trail 9. zack was leading and he came up to the wall. i saw tryin to climb it, i got on the radio and was like "where are u goin"? after that he got out and winched over. once he was clear i saw what the problem was. after deciding that i didnt want to endo and end up on my cage i just took a strap. with both of us clear we turned left on to trail 8. then we found some nasty mud holes. the first was very soupy but we crawled through it. the second proved to be a lot tougher. zack tired several times and never made it out. he ended up winching again. i was up and i figured that my TSL would grab the mud a little better than zacks MTR's. all i can say is that my tires grabbed but i still did make it either. all it did was dig holes in the ground. it was getting VERY late and we wanted to get the hell out of there. so i gave up and to a strap. once i was clear we were heading out and somehow we got turned around and ended up goin to wrong way. finially headed back to camp and the night ended a litter after 2am and our days stared at about 7am. so i slept like a log.
after we got to crawfords and set up camp, we aired down and decided to hit the trail. after taking trail #1 we split off and took #4. there was not much on trail 4 but a rock ledge that was pretty easy. we both did most of #4 in 2wd. worse mistake of the day was trail #3 since it a dead end and it seemed like we had gone about 5 miles out of our way. we decided to park and check out the map. all of a sudden i hear zack say "SWEET" "i found a GPS". i walked over and checked it out and to me suprise it worked properly. after heading back we decided to hit #11. we did know what was up there but we just wanted to see it. call us posers but our jeeps are both untrailerd and open diff daily drivers
. after gettin turned around we headed back towards #4. but i first we had to pass quater panel tree again. i drove past the off camber section with out scraping the tree. after i cleared the rutts i was getting ready to park and i hear zack yell "OH SHIT" so i got on the cb and asked what happened. i figured that he got in to the tree, but that was not the case. i looked up the trail and his ZJ a few inches from floping over. it was rocking back and fourth. when i got back up to where he was i saw that his passenger rear tire was about 3-4 feet in the air. after i got on his rear bumper he eased it down enough where i could get a pic.
afer getting back on #4 we headed to #5 and fains ford. on the way there i got held up twice, once for a buggy with a blown motor and the other for a 4wheeler with a bent tie rod. these were the ONLY times that we ahd to wait. it was not nearly as crowed as a lot of us expected.
after crossing Fains ford and playin on the rock ledges on the left we continued on to trail #9. when we got to slick rock i was like WTF is pretty dry. so both decided to give it a shot.
Zack was up first and made it about 2/3 on the way up but he got hung up on his 8.8. so he took the cable the rest of the way. when he got to the top i noticed that his winch was a birds nest. we the time to get it straightend out. by that time it was about 9 PM. so it was my turn to come up, i drove nearly to the top but that last tree on the left grabed my driver rear fender. i could not go forward or back so i took the cable also. as i was winching up i started to slide to the left, i tried to steer out of it but it was too went. i slid into another tree and recive a nice dent in the windshelid frame. after the winch fest it was about 10:30 pm. getting past slick rock and the rock face after it was the easy part. now we came up to the BIG ASS wall at the top on trail 9. zack was leading and he came up to the wall. i saw tryin to climb it, i got on the radio and was like "where are u goin"? after that he got out and winched over. once he was clear i saw what the problem was. after deciding that i didnt want to endo and end up on my cage i just took a strap. with both of us clear we turned left on to trail 8. then we found some nasty mud holes. the first was very soupy but we crawled through it. the second proved to be a lot tougher. zack tired several times and never made it out. he ended up winching again. i was up and i figured that my TSL would grab the mud a little better than zacks MTR's. all i can say is that my tires grabbed but i still did make it either. all it did was dig holes in the ground. it was getting VERY late and we wanted to get the hell out of there. so i gave up and to a strap. once i was clear we were heading out and somehow we got turned around and ended up goin to wrong way. finially headed back to camp and the night ended a litter after 2am and our days stared at about 7am. so i slept like a log.
and camped two spots down from you guys at Crawford's. I was wondering if you got any pics of me when I almost tipped over on #2. I was thinking that you had your camera out then.
