Skully
NAXJA Forum User
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- Dacono, Co.
First off; no offense to navyblue123 and his organized group. It was a last minute thing and CAGED94XJ made a call and wanted some company on a trail to part de-virginise his new setup on his Heep.
Spring Creek is a very popular trail and usually REALLY busy on the weekends. If you don't get out early enough you have to wait for every other group hitting the obstacles. As navy can attest there was 3 groups between us and him, and maybe an hour apart.
It was Cage94XJ, kstutz, and myself and we hit the trail at 9:15 or so thinking we could possibly get to the meadow and head down Ute/Cascade to head home before 1:00 but didn't happen that way.
At 11:30 we had made it all the way to the Rock Garden (4th obstacle) and you could see where a rig attempted to push through the snow, but gave up. I walked 100ft up through the Rock Garden and 2-3 ft of snow blocking our way and all the rocks hidden underneath;
So it sucks I was hoping to check this one off my list for the year, but now I hate unfinished business and might have to go up there to complete it...........
I got to test out some of my new mods to the Heep in the last 6 months, mainly my new Ballistic Fab LCA's and my Aussie Locker which both worked flawlessly!
I made the first 3 obstacles without any hitches,
(Myself coming up the obstacle #1)
However coming back down the 3rd obstacle I slipped on the now wet and muddy rocks and got hung up on front and rear diffs, had to winch myself forward to get off of them. At this time we ran into the other four groups like some cosmic happening we could not escape, 18+ rigs. We ended up waiting for an hour at the 3rd obstacle mainly for a group of 5 over pretty mall crawlers who where not too realistically equipped ie; no lockers or way TOO TALL!
Again thanks to the other
brothers for letting us slip by.
I did get some damage but it was not due to the obstacles, in fact it was the stupidest thing. Driving over basic rocky terrain I put my front driver wheel on a big loose rock and as I went over it (I was watching out the window) it spun it directly in front of my crossmember and knocked a nice dent in it;
I also can verify MARK's are wild and do pee in the woods;
Here is a couple random pics.
Look at the little people, "I CRUSH YOUR LITTLE HEAD!"
kstutz at Obstacle #3;
Us stopped to bask in the glory of our perfect climbs up Obstacle #1
What CAGED94XJ's other half does while riding shotgun;
All my pics our here!
Videos will be here in the next couple days. (Huge files,tired, later man, later!)
Spring Creek is a very popular trail and usually REALLY busy on the weekends. If you don't get out early enough you have to wait for every other group hitting the obstacles. As navy can attest there was 3 groups between us and him, and maybe an hour apart.
It was Cage94XJ, kstutz, and myself and we hit the trail at 9:15 or so thinking we could possibly get to the meadow and head down Ute/Cascade to head home before 1:00 but didn't happen that way.
At 11:30 we had made it all the way to the Rock Garden (4th obstacle) and you could see where a rig attempted to push through the snow, but gave up. I walked 100ft up through the Rock Garden and 2-3 ft of snow blocking our way and all the rocks hidden underneath;
So it sucks I was hoping to check this one off my list for the year, but now I hate unfinished business and might have to go up there to complete it...........
I got to test out some of my new mods to the Heep in the last 6 months, mainly my new Ballistic Fab LCA's and my Aussie Locker which both worked flawlessly!
I made the first 3 obstacles without any hitches,
(Myself coming up the obstacle #1)
However coming back down the 3rd obstacle I slipped on the now wet and muddy rocks and got hung up on front and rear diffs, had to winch myself forward to get off of them. At this time we ran into the other four groups like some cosmic happening we could not escape, 18+ rigs. We ended up waiting for an hour at the 3rd obstacle mainly for a group of 5 over pretty mall crawlers who where not too realistically equipped ie; no lockers or way TOO TALL!
Again thanks to the other
brothers for letting us slip by. I did get some damage but it was not due to the obstacles, in fact it was the stupidest thing. Driving over basic rocky terrain I put my front driver wheel on a big loose rock and as I went over it (I was watching out the window) it spun it directly in front of my crossmember and knocked a nice dent in it;
I also can verify MARK's are wild and do pee in the woods;
Here is a couple random pics.
Look at the little people, "I CRUSH YOUR LITTLE HEAD!"
kstutz at Obstacle #3;
Us stopped to bask in the glory of our perfect climbs up Obstacle #1
What CAGED94XJ's other half does while riding shotgun;
All my pics our here!
Videos will be here in the next couple days. (Huge files,tired, later man, later!)
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