Cottontail
Three-De Off-Road
- Location
- Nashville, TN
Great day at Wooly's today. Brian (Bosco), Eric (thecheif), and I hit the trails with some of Eric's buddies riding shot gun, a couple JKs from TNJeeps.com and a random JK of rookie off-road frat boys. This was my first trip and I was pretty impressed with both the terrain and the way the XJ performed. Eric, Brian, and I were able to get out of everything we got ourselves into - with one exception. We ran the south side of the road in 2 runs. The first was just Brian, one of the JKs, and me. Eric got within 3 miles of the park, down from Bowling Green, and his Jeep quit on him. We ran the more gnarly stuff on the second run when it was the 3 XJs and the 3 JKs. Here are some photos:
Up top it kind of reminded me a little of Harlan. Nice to have that view since I'll be missing the Crawl again this year.
The trails were a lot of narrow, well, I guess you'd call them dry river beds with some big ole boulders to crawl over.
We had some nice hill climbs also.
These jackasses were really only concerned with getting "mad flex, bro." We did end up talking them into trying a mud hole, which didn't turn out great for them. They took every bypass they could - and that JK was on 37s or something ridiculous like that. I figured they'd be the type that would want to show up a little bitty Cherocar.
But I'm guilty of "mad flex, bro" myself. We all took the poser shots. Glad to see that my brakelines aren't acting as limiting straps anymore. All 4 tires stayed on the ground too.
And, yeah, you probably saw that big dent in the fender. I got that on a hill climb on a narrow turn. I bumped an exposed root and the Jeep slid driver and the bumper struck a tree. The bumper actually bent upwards and took out the corner and some of the fiberglass fascia. I tore off the passenger flare earlier, so I took this one off a little later down the trail. We did hook Brian's winch to the bumper and pulled it back in place - kinda.
Great day of wheeling. Eric's buddy got some - well, a crap-ton, of go-pro video, so hopefully we can get some of it posted eventually.
Up top it kind of reminded me a little of Harlan. Nice to have that view since I'll be missing the Crawl again this year.
The trails were a lot of narrow, well, I guess you'd call them dry river beds with some big ole boulders to crawl over.
We had some nice hill climbs also.
These jackasses were really only concerned with getting "mad flex, bro." We did end up talking them into trying a mud hole, which didn't turn out great for them. They took every bypass they could - and that JK was on 37s or something ridiculous like that. I figured they'd be the type that would want to show up a little bitty Cherocar.
But I'm guilty of "mad flex, bro" myself. We all took the poser shots. Glad to see that my brakelines aren't acting as limiting straps anymore. All 4 tires stayed on the ground too.
And, yeah, you probably saw that big dent in the fender. I got that on a hill climb on a narrow turn. I bumped an exposed root and the Jeep slid driver and the bumper struck a tree. The bumper actually bent upwards and took out the corner and some of the fiberglass fascia. I tore off the passenger flare earlier, so I took this one off a little later down the trail. We did hook Brian's winch to the bumper and pulled it back in place - kinda.
Great day of wheeling. Eric's buddy got some - well, a crap-ton, of go-pro video, so hopefully we can get some of it posted eventually.
