Outdoor Adventure USA

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sdnative wrote:ouch.. tie rod?

Yep. On the way back I was going to let them take the one off my Jeep if they couldn't find a place that was open and had one. Luckily, they did.

sdnative wrote:More pics please..

Here you go.

This was by far the most vehicles I had seen on this trail.

Glad I didn't go there!

I might have scratched the SWR!

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Uh oh. Looks like you got to meet Jeremy. I'm sorry.

Thanks for the pics.

Scenic WonderRunner wrote:Glad I didn't go there!

I might have scratched the SWR!

If you've never been there, Mark, you should go sometime. There is a scenic, easy/moderate trail the skirts the entire area. Los Pinos Mountain trail, along with the fire lookout tower, is a nice way to spend the day.

Great trip, I will try and get some photos up later today

Here's just a few from me. I wnet a little nuts and took over 400 pictures (447 to be exact). I have a lot of processing to do. I'll get more posted. Here's just a few. Jeremy kept taunting me al day long so I ended up trying nearly every difficult route. It was a fun day.

After running into Kearney Mesa to the NAPA distribution center and picking up a tie-rod for the Jeep, we got back out to where Chris was looking after the Jeep around 6:30. We got the tie-rod changed out relatively quickly then it took another couple of hours to get out of there. After taking that many rigs through the easy route on that second to last obstacle, it was quite tore up. Then getting Chris's Dodge through the last "V"-notch obstacle worked us for everything we were worth. Tight doesn't even desribe it. We used winching, rock stacking, and a combination of both at the same time to get him through there without any damage. We were finally aired up an on the road by about 10:00 pm.

The ground out there was soft and not conducive to good traction. It was a great day with a lot of good people. We all had fun and if not for those of us screwing around on the difficult spots, would have completed the trail by noon. We could have all 17 trucks through there in 2 hours with no problem at all...

The three images below show three different rigs going over the same obstacle...

Well, I always seem to have issues getting the photos to link directly in the post, so here is a link to a set on Flickr
https://secure.flickr.com/photos/cmates ... 091942649/

I have some videos that I will get up as well.

Great day on the trail, and meet some good people. The truck made it through with no problems (thanks to awesome spotting), and the spot I thought would be the hardest turned out to be about the easiest. Ollie was ahead of me, so he took care of most of the spotting for me, but everyone on the trail was willing to help out anyone who needed it. Ollie and Terry had to work overtime guiding me through the last obstacle, it was a bit narrow.

Thanks again, Hope to wheel with all of you again soon

One of the guys from SoCalFj was nice enough to get me some pics and a video, here is the video http://youtu.be/Esnc9RNG07k