more mud for you guys
had a good trip, it was muddy as i expected, i got lost friday night, spent 4 hours trying to find camp, i almost ran out of gas
i got stuck twice, ground clearance pwnd me


sprayed the front of the runner with mud on the way into the park, uphill+wet clay+2wd xterra+4000lb load=mucho tire spin




settin up camp



saturday morning, tried the mini bog... got stuck, truck sits low enough to drag frame if the ruts are deep, and my tires will drag the truck and dig the front end down




damon tried pullin me out



not happenin, so, homeboy mike in the JK had to do it(the YJ just didnt have enough weight)







time for breakfast, guess who cooked




DUDE! IT WAS THIS BIG!




BACK TO THE TRAILS






choosing my route carefully, there was a pretty big ledge/drop off in front of where im standing, trying to choose a line that WONT drop my runner nose first into the ground


jeep first




now onto a muddy rutty hill climb



thisi s as far as damon got


of course i got farther



and i got myself stuck again




on the road again




going to test the muck, with my trusty dipstick



looks good to me, lets hit it





damon chooses a different route













aaannnnddd got pwnt by ground clearance, stuck, time to pull the runner back around








onward!


damon checkin the muck, he wanted to see me try and get thru this


thinkin about it

MADE IT!


























my turn































this is where i spent 9 hours in my truck in quicksand over night during a previous trip

 

WELL.........did you spend the night again in it this time??

 

Holy Plethora of Pictures, Batman!

Looks like fun...

 

nope, we couldnt tell how deep it was, with knee high boots and a 36" wooden dowel
and it was all sand at the bottom, and very long, so if one of us got stuck even with 50' of strap, the one doing the pulling out would have to have been in the pond as well

we werent willing to risk both rigs getting stuck

btw, the guy in the jeep, damon, owns a 93 4runner, he is a member here, i also bought my blue runner off of him

 

'95 4runner to be exact. . . . You ended up w/ some good pics though. Also I hear there might be another trip in the making for march?

 

perhaps
maybe april

 

dude that looks like so much fun, i would love to go and play at something like that. great pics. man, werent you COLD?

 

only at nite when either away from the fire, or out of the sleeping bags, lol
i love camping when its freezing out
when we went in dec 07 there was ice on the tents when we got up in the morning!