Almost rolled

djui5 · **Joined:** Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:38 am **Posts:** 536

Had a really scary day last Sunday. Came as close to rolling my Jeep as I could. Thankfully some guys came to my rescue. Here are a couple pics:

2006 KJ · **Posted:** Fri May 15, 2009 12:48 am

how did you get in that predicament?

03CDKJ · **Posted:** Fri May 15, 2009 12:54 am

bet that made your heartbeat rise!

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Fri May 15, 2009 1:06 am

lol, looks familiar, i dove my bronco II off the edge of a trail once, pass rear tire was a good 2 1/2 feet off the ground, wish they had cell phone cams back then you guys woulda loved it :lol:

STINGN · **Posted:** Fri May 15, 2009 1:08 am

that extra weight from the red, white and blue kept you up:)

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Fri May 15, 2009 1:13 am

Could you not have driven down the hill?

JL Rockies · **Posted:** Fri May 15, 2009 1:26 am

good question

riptricket · **Posted:** Fri May 15, 2009 1:46 am

you win

Neatus · **Posted:** Fri May 15, 2009 2:42 am

I think you still had a little more to go, gotta see it balanced on two wheels before it is almost rolled. :lol:

corwyyn · **Posted:** Fri May 15, 2009 5:33 am

Neatus wrote:

I think you still had a little more to go, gotta see it balanced on two wheels before it is almost rolled. :lol:

In one of the other pictures I've seen his drivers' side rear is about a half-inch off the dirt, does that count?

Randy, glad you made it out of that situation in one piece. We don't want to lose you man!

Diggerfreek wrote:

Could you not have driven down the hill?

He did eventually end up driving down the hill to get out, but they had to get him pointed more directly there to make it work. I'll let him fill in the details when he gets on tomorrow (don't want to steal the thunder).

AZKJ · **Posted:** Fri May 15, 2009 8:08 am

Yeah, waiting on the details!!!

So what trail are you on, how'd you end up off the trail, and was it another closed run?? LOL... if you had some LOST guys there, we wouldn't have let you run off the trail. If you're going to LOST Jeep Safari 2009 in Ouray, stay off of Black Bear for sure, and some of the others....

Glad to see you didn't get hurt or damage your Jeep.

There's no room for error on many of the trails up there in Ouray...

KeswickDave · **Posted:** Fri May 15, 2009 11:00 am

Whoah.... looks like you have the anti-gravity mod installed there!

Especially the first pic, I'm amazed it's still hanging there. I imagine if a bird crapped in the wrong spot it would be gone!

KJ 119 · **Posted:** Fri May 15, 2009 6:50 pm

We all know pictures never do justice,but this one looks sketchy on pic.Bet you were relieved to out of that situation.
Glad you made out OK.

tjkj2002 · **Posted:** Fri May 15, 2009 8:39 pm

Diggerfreek wrote:

Could you not have driven down the hill?

He sure could have if he turned the front wheels the opposite direction he had them turned.

djui5 · **Joined:** Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:38 am **Posts:** 536

corwyyn wrote:

Randy, glad you made it out of that situation in one piece. We don't want to lose you man!

Thanks

To answer the questions, no I couldn't turn the tires and drive it down the hill. Surely pictures don't do it justice. My drivers rear tires was off the ground and the Jeep was so close to rolling that if you had rest your hand on it, the thing probably would have rolled. I was really scared to even put it in park, then I got out and saw where I was. Panic set in. Some VJC guys came and rescued me. Took us 7hrs to get it down the hill without rolling. The "hill" is a mine dump, so all the rock breaks up with little pressure and everything is loose. I tried turning the wheels passenger side but when I did it started to rock. What you can't see in the pictures is the small rut my passenger front tire is sitting in. If I had turned it towards the passenger side, the rear would have slid down more and I would have went careening down the hill. Thankfully I was smart enough to stop and call for help before that happened.

The road is a quad road. 4 Jeeps came to rescue me and none of them could get to my Jeep at all, so we had to hold the Jeep down with straps ran through the windows and over the roof while I worked the front end around pointing it downward. I literally walked the front end down by turning the wheel back and forth. It was quite scary.

Don't ask what I was doing up there because my only answer is "being stupid" :lol:

Lesson learned for sure that day.

AZKJ,
I was on the road that heads into Bulldog Canyon behind the Ghost Town in AJ. Can't remember the name of it, but you turn off 88 about 1/3 mile before the Ghost Town and it heads back to the first gate. About 1/2 a mile in on the left is the North side of the Bulldog Mine. That is where I was. Sure had a nice view of the Superstitons :lol:

BTW I won't be making the Ouray run sadly :evil:

If I did though I'd run Black Bear. It's gotta be wider than the road I was on in the pictures :lol:

HoosierJeeper · **Joined:** Sun Feb 15, 2009 8:23 am **Posts:** 1218

Glad you made it!!!!

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