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Great pictures blondjon, thank you

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We missed you Skipper !

Thanks I missed you guys too. Still nursing this replaced patella tendon in my right leg. Butt like an extended offseason, I'm thinking of things that I can do to the Jeep during this downtime

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The trip started out with losing a trailer tire coming up Hwy 50. Luckily it happened right before a turnout and the tread didn’t hit any other vehicles. Quickly swapped on the spare and was on my way. Even though the tires are only a couple years old, I ended up buying 4 new at South Lake Tahoe after the Rubicon trip.


Beginning of the Rubicon, 9 rigs total.


Ryan/Chipclip followed by Gordon.





Following Lou and BlondeJon.


Ryan’s rig. Don’t let the 33’s fool you, he easily makes up for the smaller tires with driving skill.


Eric making a tough line look easy. Someone said “it was like watching poetry”.


Gordon on Soup bowl.


Lou on Soup bowl.


Jeep was out there field testing their future Rubicon model on….the Rubicon. They were all camouflaged out with covers/bras hiding the details. Even the door handles and interior dash had covers over therm. When stopped, they never left the vehicles unattended and had a person (guard) standing by each one at all times.






Support vehicle following the camo Rubicons.


Stranded Jeep, no one around.


Spider Lake at the top of Little Sluice. Great swimming.


Top of the slabs before heading down.


More to come...being called to dinner now....

Awesome pics, wish I coulda met up with you guys on the Rubicon portion of the trip.
Love the camouflage pics, reminds me when I was up there for the original Rubicon and H3 tests back in the early 2000s.

Several broken rigs on the trail...this one with a broken trackbar bracket at the frame.


Ran across the Camo Jeeps again due to the broken rig blocking the trail.


With Tim’s encouragement, Alan getting head deep and putting his Ready Welder to work on a Polaris with a broken tie rod at Buck Island. Polaris didn’t get very far after the fix and the guy and his g-friend ended up hiking back out to Loon.


At the same time, Ryan was busy fixing a broken center pin on his leafs. After getting ¾ of the way done with the left side, he realized the right side was also broken. Lou scrounged up a couple of grade 8 bolts and luckily Ryan had a big enough wrench to get the job done!


Here’s the big ass wrench...for reference, my shoe size in the pic is 11½.


Ryan looking way too happy to be broke on the trail.


Under way again, leaving Buck Island.


Coming down Big Sluice.


Coming down Big Sluice.


Coming down Big Sluice.


We ended up camping at the far end of Rubicon Springs, the section where you have to make a water crossing to get to it.


Alan and Blondejon prepping for dinner.


And yet another reason you gotta make Sierra Fest....Blondejon’s Dutch oven corn bread! I can only hope he’ll make this a tradition!


I just had dinner and this pic makes me hungry again.


Small pools and waterfalls near the campsite.






John/Twinhauler making the water crossing leaving Rubicon Springs.


John/Twinhauler starting the climb up Cadillac Hill.




Looking down the switchback after the first big turn on Cadillac. Can you spot the rig in the center?


We didn’t get very far up Cadillac until we ran into this guy from Oregon with broken front and rear axles. He was with his kid and another rig and ended up winching up most of the hill.




I think this is his buddies trailer that he unhitched to help out with the recovery effort.
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Obligatory group shot at Observation Point.


Pretty sure Rubicon Springs is at the center of this pic, as seen from Observation Point.


We’re at Deer Valley now...we did a night run on the trail out of the campground and this log jumped out at me…


...and cracked the fiberglass front clip.


Top of the peak on Deer Valley, couldn’t have asked for better weather.


Deer Valley poser shot before the first water crossing.


Lou making the water crossing.


More pics to come...

The last day we ran Slickrock that starts at Lake Alpine and goes up to Utica Reservoir.




Great creekside campsites along the way.












End of the trail group shot.


Utica Res. Great swimming here too.


Somewhere between Lake Alpine and Hermit Valley off Hwy 4.


Note sure what kind of berry this is.


After Deer Valley I took Hwy 395 back home and camped and fished a couple spots. I camped on BLM land just North of Lake Crowley…




Sunset over the Sierras.






Ended up fishing Rock Creek and Lake Crowley for a couple days. Didn’t catch anything in the creek, but got lucky in Lake Crowley with some small rainbows and nice cut throats.





What a way to end an awesome trip!!

Nice pictures Art! Glad you made the trip up again this year!

Wow amazing pics and story. Thanks for sharing Art!