Beautiful day for wheeling, left home in the dark with the temp at 17 degrees, but that didn't stop 40 rigs of all classes from showing up at Jeep Skool! It started snowing around noon with the high topping out at 24 degrees.
Attending LOST members that showed:
Alex and his dad (Keith) showed up in Dad's Rubicon.
Dave (hatu) in his first time out stock Rubi with new winch. Yeah, he even got to use it on me and a Wrangler.
Raymond with his KJ.
A newbie LOST (Brick) in stock KJ. The guy had balls to be out there on a day like that!
Airing up after the run I had to get a pair of pliars out to remove the frozen iced over valve stem caps and then urinate on one of my valve stems to get it to close.... That was a first!
Getting back home in the snow and dark on 480 W. was slow going with many flashing blue, red, and ambers lights along the way.
Alex, what was the outcome of Deer Run trail? I walked up and saw Rodney pulling the stock KJ backwards, so Dave (hatu) and I got turned around thinking you guys would have to come back out. When I got near the entrance, Harley Jeeplady was sittting in the middle of the hole you and your Dad started to come though. I had to winch her out, then Ramcharger Bill showed up and said the roads wear getting really bad. So Dave and I decided to leave before it got totally dark.
Considering "Deer Run" trail was supposed to be a "Stocker" trail, it apparently ate up a lot of modified rigs through out the day from what I read on the Jeep Skool site.
LOST Newbie (Brick)
Winches were going strong all day!
New Sponcer Photo shoot
as far as the deer trail.. rodney (who was pulling him backwards) ended up winching himself out of the ruts to get around the KJ and then pull'em through the rest of the trail... as we progressed we came across a trail guide.. i think "badsparky" or something like that.. who was real burried after getting one guy unstuck then trying for another.. and that did him in... then rodney tried to winch badsparky out and got pulled into the same hole. so robocon tied his JK to a tree and snatch blocked rodney's jeep and ran the line back to his JK and pulled out both rodney and badsparky (who he had attached via rodney's winch)..
Got some new tree rash. Other than that, a lot of fun....
didnt do a darn thing to his house, put a small black scuff on the rock from my bumper plastic under the paint
hehe