URE 11-12-2005

Oh yeah I understand why folks left him, thats for sure. No blame your way. He's luckier than he thinks...when we got off the trail to the parking area, his girl was sleeping it off in the buddy's truck. One of the Rangers had been chasing a guy on a four wheeler and was sitting in the lot when we pulled up. He had looked in the truck with the passed out girlfriend in it and wanted to know what was up! They were lucky as hell!
 
We were going to say something on Kodac, as plastered as he was I am sure it would have truned into something else, something ugly, that no club would have been proud of. All in all I am glad somebody helped them. I know the girl was in tears when we all rolled by. :rolleyes: When we were eating that night they were still at the Outpost, eating and crying. I am sure they needed food by then. In our defence he did not ask for help either. I am pretty sure he did not get our point that if you drink on the trail nobody will help you. . . But hey you never know. Had he been following proper trail edicute^sp we would have been all over him helping. Lesson her to others:
1. Never wheel alone!
2. Never drink on the trail! (@ camp Ok ;) )
JG
 
I took these at the outpost the next day.

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I never saw any of you make it up Kodak??? The sammy went to left of the rock, and the others got their front tires up and then either backed off or hooked a winch line and drug theirselves over.
 
Suspension 101: How NOT to control your pinion..
exhibit A: lift blocks, and only the top 1/2 an effective traction bar.
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wyndzer said:
I never saw any of you make it up Kodak??? The sammy went to left of the rock, and the others got their front tires up and then either backed off or hooked a winch line and drug theirselves over.
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I did'nt go over Kodac, but I did go over to the left of the rock without a hook or strap. Not bad for a rusty old Wagon with a l/s rear. I should have tried to go over the rock, but my throttle stuck open on me after the first ledge and I ended up half way up the hill!
This yellow one made it to the left of the rock also. He did a good job with that climb.

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Oh, well crap, the left side of the rock I cleared twice so far. In fact the blue CJ did also, both earlier in the year, but the goal on the two latest trips was the right side. And I know I pulled strap, but for the guys that tried the right side, I did get the farthest. I admit failure though, still had to pull strap.
 
I bet ya'll didn't even know that the rock you call Kodak isn't even the "original" Kodak LOL.
 
Yep, that's Grandstand or Budweiser to those of us who've been wheeling the place since that trail was cut. In fact, it was originally only ankle high and a good place to sit and drin.....er...watch people try Kodak.
 
Hey Casey, We went by your campsite and tried to find you so we could go up Daniel. Russ did not have a spare axel so he rode with one off us. We passed right by the Toy. and was wondering what happen. We must have just missed each other. Got a couple of good pic's off you on picture rock I can send you if you want.
 
casey said:
I did'nt go over Kodac, but I did go over to the left of the rock without a hook or strap. Not bad for a rusty old Wagon with a l/s rear. I should have tried to go over the rock, but my throttle stuck open on me after the first ledge and I ended up half way up the hill!
This yellow one made it to the left of the rock also. He did a good job with that climb.

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That's me. Thanks for sharing the pic. :) I am still blowing brown snot out of my nose from all the dust. We didn't know your throttle was stuck, we thought you were nuts for as hard as it seemed you hit it.

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There are some more pics from our group at:
http://webwheeling.com/gallery/v/daniel/
http://webwheeling.com/gallery/v/hawkdriver/unfnov12/
And a little video one of the guys put together:
http://webwheeling.com/video/UNF 12NOV05.wmv
 
radioman said:
Yep, that's Grandstand or Budweiser to those of us who've been wheeling the place since that trail was cut. In fact, it was originally only ankle high and a good place to sit and drin.....er...watch people try Kodak.
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Ah, one of the old guys, glad somebody remembers the good 'ole days :bronco:
 
Joel, the throttle stuck after I made it over! I am nuts!

The front is open on my Wag and the rear has a true trac, 3.73's, so I have to hit things a little hard anyway.

By chance did anyone get a pic of the "BIG" yellow Jeep on that climb?
 
For now I am under-equipped as well. Open front and a LS in the 8.8 but I seem to get by with it. I don't recall seeing the big yellow Jeep so it may have been before we got there.
 
No I was behind you...thats how I got the pic of you and the Bronco. Y'all went on up IIRC. I followed another yellow TJ, driven by a kid with a Tracy Chapman hairdoo.
 
casey said:
No I was behind you...thats how I got the pic of you and the Bronco. Y'all went on up IIRC.
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Yeah, you are right. You were behind us. I still don't remember the other yellow Jeep. I won't forget the one guy using a chain to strap the guy with the "Intimidator" sticker over Kodak. :rolleyes:

I followed another yellow TJ, driven by a kid with a Tacy Chapman hairdoo.
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That would be got4-lo.
 
got4-lo...Dude I would have said "Hey" but I did'nt know if you were from here, me being a noob to y'all's forum.

How 'bout my big Wagoneer though huh!? She did great with the exception of the carb problems.
 
sry for blocking the trail. i kinda got caught up watching all action on kodak.

i like to see FSJ out on the trail. something a little different out there. :D

hope to see ya out there again.. :)
 
the silver toy that ripped the studs off his front 1/2 axel and twisted his driveshaft off like a piece if taffy was coming down daniel "bypass" while me and my crew were going up. i went up to the right of the small island and went on up to the top. i walked back down to try to help him get turned around. when i walked up, his face was bloodshot, and i could already smell the alcohol from bout' 10 ft away. he wanted to follow us out so i was like sure, but he wanted to go up the same line i had taken, and i really didn;t want to say no,so i spotted him, but it was no use, he couldn;t see straight much less navagate the harder daniel line, so he nailed the small group of rocks to the right of the island, and started bouncing, we all yelled to let out of it, but he stayed in it. there was one loud pop and the motor revved like a vtech 4 banger till his intoxicated mind let him realize that he had no driveline. he then proceded to roll down the hill and get wedged sideways on daniel. so his drunk self and his lady got out of the truck, and tried to stand up. we helped him get to back to the bottom and tried to tell him what he should do, but he wanted to winch up to the top on the bypass by using his winch and no tree saver!!! so we let him be, and went on our way, i felt bad, but he didn;t really want to get help the correct way, and so i wasn;t going to try to force him.

wheelin 101: keep the alcohol at the campsite, and also wheel with buddies, not alone!!!
 
No foolin, when we found them at 22:00 they were still on the by-pass winching it down. He had a friend come get him on a 4wheeler. That guy was working his ass off and is the reason I decided to help them out. Anyone that will go to those lengths for a dumbass friend deserved the help. I had to tell them to drape something over the winch cable though. Two of them standing next to the rig while the drunk in the cab operated the remote :eek: That could have been nasty! I've seen cable break before and it aint pretty if it hits something.
 
really, the wheeler community needs a few more like you. the last view we had of the drunken guy in the silver yota' was him 1/2 way up daniel with his winch cable hooked to a pine about the size of a beer can, hooked at the botton of the tree u could hear the tree creeking and the cable digging into the tree. a good many older men tried to tell him, they walked down there to tell him that wasn't smart, but intoxication hinders ability to make smart decisions.
 
I remember that guy! He left Kodak in front of us around lunch time then all of a sudden decided to do a U-turn in the middle of the trail and head back. I can hear "Billy's got his beer goggles on" playing now...
 
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