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my slow crawlfest trip report

jmaxj

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i'm sorting through a TON of pics and 3hrs of video so it'll all be posted throughout the week but here's what i got at the moment.

day 1. upper west rim/ rock garden
not a bad trail but it was slow going and the "good stuff" was few and far between. but it had some decent scenery. there was J-9, smokin camel in his truggy, my buddy dustin and his wife in their sleeper YJ and myself in our little group. ended up meeting a couple fellow NAXJA'rs ODDBALLXJ and i can't remember the others name (sorry) not much video's from that day since i forgot the camera.

me headed up the steps
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janine headed up the steps
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Day 2 we ran the sliplock trail, fun little run kinda got owned by the first obstical but i'll go back and redeem myself. once again it we had our little group plus 1 more friend in his yota. nothing major exciting til the end when J-9 decided to do a wheelstand and smokincamel rolled his truggy.
no pics of this run yet but a few vids.

janine's wheelstand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBqyOXQzItM

and this is a crappy video recorded off a tv when crawlzone.tv was showing it to us but here's a vid of chandlers roll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvH_6HPBDMc

it was exactally 36 second from the time he started the obstical to the time he was back on his wheels

more to come stay tuned.........
 
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Wow, makes my wheelie on John's Trail look wimpy....I like the way it appears as though the spotter stopped the jeep from rolling backwards.......
 
more from upper west rim

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nevermind all the smoke, i blew a compression fitting on my trans pressure line and couldn't find one down there. so i smelled burning atf the whole trip :puke:
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here's a few from sliplock gulch
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they had a lunch of bbq pulled pork and such here every day
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Day 3 after spending most the day trying to fix chandler tie-rod end he broke in the roll we threw in the towel and went and ran smurfette's trail.
didn't get many pictures since it was late and we were trying to get back to the trailer before dark. (didn't feel like wiring the headlights back up)

janine on the first obstical
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some videos from smurfette's trail

the first climb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaSSSgY34WM
second climb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8M-9t3iV_c
a little non challenging section
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IciKEbsaSQ
and the final climb, short but extremely fun trail
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYEDqtcC4ww



more to come................
 
Day 4 since it was 60*and great weather heading back to the coldness of slc was not high on the list. so we got with steve crabtree and he took us to the maze, i have me a new favorite trail :clap:

the first of many drops.
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the climb alot of people seem to roll on
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videos from the run.

this was an insane climb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDwBER_HBBA
dropping in
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxme89HdCQM
chandler blew out his new window here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmWk5ubjwDg

i'll post the links to all the video's and pictures from the trip after i finish sorting them out.

thats all for now :D
 
Finally!!good trip report, nice pic's and vid's!
not done yet,still got 400 pics to go through and and hrs worth of videos :D
Here are some pics from cdhowell and OddBallXJ (AZ Chapter). It was great having some other NAXJA members to wheel with....

http://cdhowell.shutterfly.com/982

http://s258.photobucket.com/albums/hh267/jporvaz/2011%20Southwest%20Crawlfest/

it was great meeting and wheeling with you guys, next time we'll run smurfette's trail that was a fun one.
 
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