Looks like me and some jeep budies are looking at a trip in June to Mark Twain. We're thinkin either the 16th or the 23rd. Wanted to post up and see if anyone else wanted to go and if so what weekend worked best.

 

You got Jeep buddies too? Be careful of them... hang around them too long and you'll be buying chrome door hinges off of Ebay.

 

or those door peg things.....

Ya, couple of guys from work have some jeeps.... I figured we havent thought about a june trip, so i offered this up.

 

Looks like its the weekend of the 23rd unless anyone else wants to go and cant make that date

 

And after talking again, we may be waivering on the date... starting to look like its goina be a friday/saturday thing for the weekend of the 15th.

 

If anyone is interested, we are going on a day run tomorrow in mark twain.

 

Post pics of breakage.

 

of mondays trip? here they are, just a shackle reversal:




you coming to the fathers day weekend trip (15th/16th)?

 

well, we've got a total of 3 maybe four going.

me
jeremy, jeep of some kind, locked/locked 35's
raymond, YJ, open/open 33's
maybe Gary, TJ locked/open 32's i think... i dunno.

anyone else wanna come.. looks like its just going to be a day trip on saturday.

 

I'm taking the wife & kids to Branson (silver dollar city) the 19th - the 23rd or I'd love to go. Actually I'd have loved to spend that money on lockers for my 4Runner but oh well.

 

well, maybe next trip!

 

I hope to get some lockers before the winter & make some trips & meet you Ozark guys then. (fingers crossed)

 

Well, it was a good trip. It looked like it was going to rain the entire time when we left, but it cleared up about the time we got down to Mark Twain.

We started off in the 1045 area. Wheeled around there for about 4 hours. I scraped both of my diffs on some stuff, and Raymond blew out a sidewall, but that was about it for that area.

We left there and headed over to Mary Cole Ridge (1011). On the way Will flooded out his Eclipse and we had to rig the air intake to get it to run til we got to camp. After getting camp setup and dinner in our bellies, we all loaded up, this time in just my rig, and went for some night wheelin. Ended up going up this huge hill which was an awesome trail, and at the top got my truck wedged between some trees. Had to back the whole way back down. It was about the distance of your average disney hill climb times 1.5. Needless to say it was interesting. On the way back down creamed the drivers rear quarter on the bottom. Safely back on level ground with a partially working drivers door, we continued on the trail. Another tree later the passenger door matched the drivers... The window wouldnt roll down, and you could only open the door from the inside. The front passenger fender got it pretty good too. Out of that mess of trees we continued on the trail until it popped us back out on the main road. Headed back to camp and called it a night.

Next morning another buddy met up and we did some more light wheelin. Bent up the front bumper a little, but nothin major. However I'm pretty sure I toasted the drivers CV shaft and possibly the alternator, but the actual time of death is unknown. Did however manage to beat the doors out to a respectable shape where the handles and windows work. Then moved on to the fender to line it up with the door. Honestly it doesnt look half bad.

I dont think we got any pics, but we do have a video of the whole ordeal. I'll take some pics sometime of the damage to my truck.

 

On a side note, there was no damage to the other rigs in terms of dents etc... just mine. (unless you count a shackle beating a bumper up damage... I dont, I told him it was going to happen.)

 

I wanna see pics! So you're finally taking my approach to wheeling? I told you Mary Cole would be some fun

 

I'll shoot some pics of the runner the next time the tarp is off... Mary Cole area was good, but didnt hit it all yet....

The truck looks a lot better now that we popped a bunch of the dents out.. I'm surprised they popped out so well, shoulda took pics first.