So I believe Richard said it all pretty well...But I guess I will throw in my two cents...Friday was drunk fest. Dirty LJ, JeepDeere and myself each finished a bottle of rum. I think I ran into the problem when I broke into the fourth bottle...At any rate I have nothing to say about Saturday at all
So on to Sunday...Roger, Matt, Mark, GJ, Bekka, JeepDeere and myself decided that we would do the "moderately easy" and "quick" Claw Hammer Run. Well it was a gorgeous day, slightly overcast, just about perfect weather (unless you were Bekka
) and we were having some fun. The Toyotas and the Jeeps coming together in harmony
and then we got about half way up. So here comes the "fun"... Waterfall like spot, Roger and his Toyota up and over...Mark and his Toyota got a little help but up and over...GJ and Matt had some interesting opposing opinions on spotting somewhere in here
but GJ up and over, even though the Toyotas really wanted to "help" and then comes JeepDeere. So JeepDeere is running a standard tranny and working his way up, he tends to have a little trouble with keeping the RPMs where they need to be so we get a few re-starts...then its decided that if he can work the clutch and the break and "feather" the clutch some it will stay running and he can go nice and easy right on over. Great theory but this is not how this turned out. So the feathering turns into my foot slipped and all of a sudden he is channeling Crazy Sammy and "mobs" it right on over with a large pop a small crack and a ton of WOW THAT DID NOT SOUND GOODs! So now we get the dubious task of getting it over and trying to find something that resembles a flat spot to do a little "trail fix" - lots of quotes because I was able to so expand my off roading vocab
Anyway the winches straps and snatches come out...wait this is reminding me of Saturday night and Josh renaming some trails...ok so wench #1 does not quite get it. We are joined by a group of three jeeps from Iowa, Texas and New York (at least that is what their plates said) and we start in with another winch. Not working either and then GJ remembers he got a free snatch...ok maybe there was another word there...oh yeah snatch block and the moving of JeepDeere commences. We get to what was as flat as could be had on the trail and Matt is able to do a trail fix with the help of Roger, Mark, GJ and Justin. Bekka got to Tango with the family and I did my best to stay out of the way. We let the 3 out of state people pass, the guys get the "broken knuckle" out and we are back on the road (sort of). We now get to have Mark take the lead GJ follow and then Roger towing Justin. Well we then have another spot so we begin a "daisy chain" (I say we but at this point I am only taking pics and video) and start the slow process of making it the rest of the way out. I will say that we were lucky to be with some of the most PATIENT people in the world and I have so fallen in love with our Infectious family. The chain made it up the hill. JeepDeere made it back to camp and we started home. The trip home, however is a whole different kind of run report and definately a FAIL (except we are safe and did not take out anyone else except ourselves). So all in all it was a great weekend, I just have to remember not to start on bottle 2 of rum
Thank you all, it was great meeting everyone, reconnecting with others and knowing that we have a great family of offroaders that we have found a home with.
Oh yeah and I have pics too, those will be out shortly...
Posted: November 21st, 2011, 1:46 pm
Wow,,,,even sicker than i remember. we'll probably see those pics again
