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Old 07-07-2004, 06:58 AM
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Lake Isabel 7/5/03 [PICS]

This was my first adventure on the trail to Lake Isabel. It was awesome! Once you cross the river and start heading up the trail it is fairly easy. As you get further up you run into a rock ledge that is 3 feet tall, this was the first of two obstacles.
We had 6 rigs:
crash a.k.a Mike
Shane a.k.a Shane
Mad Chemist a.k.a David
Gbost a.k.a Greg
jruz a.k.a Jim
and me


Here is David's attempt. Everybody but Greg had trouble with this.



Greg made it look easy.



Jim had extra trouble with the open diffs but made it


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Now we move on to the second obstacle which is another rock lip.

David tried every line before making it. See the quad next to his Runner? we found that in the middle of the trail and we had to pick it up and move it. We later found the rider near the top walking down



Shane checking to see if David's sliders are working.



Greg made it look easy.



I promised Jim I wouldn't tell anyone we stacked rocks for him, so I'm not gonna.


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Old 07-07-2004, 07:20 AM
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Shane, Crash and I went on after the wood bridge. This is the only pic I took due to the technical difficulty of this last section.............bigger rocks and lots of them. My skidplate got worked!



Here is a misc. pic of the RIG.



It was nice to meet Mike and see the BEAST up close and in action.

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Old 07-07-2004, 08:24 AM
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good lookin pics.

why did Greg make it look so easy every time?
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Yes, nice pics indeed. Looks like a good run with some nice rocks. Where are the pics of the lake, though?
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Originally Posted by RTdawgs
good lookin pics.

why did Greg make it look so easy every time?
Shane and Ben made thigs look easy I just followed.

Being 5th in line and watching eveyone else helped credit Shane and Ben with the good spotting work

Nice pics this was by far the best trail I've ran so far in my limited experience and can't wait to do it again thaks to the "pit crew" for the air down/up assitance
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Originally Posted by Darren
Yes, nice pics indeed. Looks like a good run with some nice rocks. Where are the pics of the lake, though?

You can't drive to the lake, unfortunately, you have to walk.

Good run indeed but the rocks weren't NICE. Hehehehe.

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It was a nice relaxing run followed by a relaxing time at the creek with the kids. Was nice to finally put names to faces, plus, I have pics to post tonight of you guys attacking the stair step where the quad was....
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Unhappy

Cool pics guys.
Hope to do that run before the end of summer.
I'll make sure not to party like its 1999 the night before.


Mike

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So... going back on the 17th are we?
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Great wheelin' pic's!

That's the most GREEN I've seen in a LONG time- Aridzona is blowing away or burning down
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Originally Posted by midiwall
So... going back on the 17th are we?
If my fishing trip cancels on the 16th Im open for a run.
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Originally Posted by midiwall
So... going back on the 17th are we?
I think it may be Naches on the 17th. I will know tomorrow evening.
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Originally Posted by crawler#976
Great wheelin' pic's!

That's the most GREEN I've seen in a LONG time- Aridzona is blowing away or burning down
A-R-I-D-Z-O-N-A I get it.

I know what you mean. When I got here from Utah I was amazed at how many trees and how green it was here.
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Was definitely a great time. Jim and I were surprised by how much trouble the second rock ledge gave us relative to the same trip last summer. Slightly wetter to make things a bit slippery, and a different line made all the difference in the world. My skilz were a bit off on that 2nd ledge- I made a bad line even worse by getting sideways. Thank god for sliderz....
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Just an FYI, looks like one or both of my CV's got trashed on this run. I haven't looked real close, no obvious tears in the boots, so I'm hoping that they may just be low in grease (I got some seapage after lifting with the SAWS At
any rate, I might just replace them and have trail spares, and also learn how to replace them in the process.

Boo-hoo for me.
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why are they trashed? i think you would know if the axle or joint broke.
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From your post it sounds like you may be jumping to conclusions. I would look into new boots with new grease. I've heard it's common to have them leak grease after they have been lifted. So maybe a repack would be fine.
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Nothing broken, just getting the infamous clicking since the run when turning. I've been lifted for well over a year, I think I've finally lost just enough grease to get some binding in the CV's. Like I said, I think the boots are okay, nothing is busted, it might just need some more lube and I'll be good to go. I would rather learn how to replace a CV in the comfort of my own garage as opposed to learning on the trail, so I might replace at least one of them so that I have a spare.
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Originally Posted by Mad Chemist
Nothing broken, just getting the infamous clicking since the run when turning. I've been lifted for well over a year, I think I've finally lost just enough grease to get some binding in the CV's. Like I said, I think the boots are okay, nothing is busted, it might just need some more lube and I'll be good to go. I would rather learn how to replace a CV in the comfort of my own garage as opposed to learning on the trail, so I might replace at least one of them so that I have a spare.
That is a good idea, learning in the comfort of your own garage. I have been concidering getting some high angle bullet proof CV's and changing them so I also have the knowledge.


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