Finally! After weeks of trying, the moonlight wheeler types made the summit of Tinkham It took some winching and a bunch of digging, but we were the first to the summit this year and had a small campfire with really wet wood in celebration.

There were a lot of cameras floating around, so I am betting the pictures will start to roll in on Wednesday.

Now on to the next challenge...

 

good times. so what is this new road you keep talking about Rob?

 

Oh boy oh boy my first run in 3 years It was great to meet everybody and test out my lift and tires. My driving obviously needs some practice though At least no body damage occurred before I can get some sliders on there!

Here are some pics to start out:

Heading up.


And we get to the fun fun hill climb


A shot of KevyWevy going up.


...and the rest of my hill climb pics turned out too dark... ugh..

Nice lineup:


And a very nice sunset while we were up there:

 

You will find out soon enough After I get it pre-run...

 

The snow bank I see and read so much about:


...becomes a lot easier with a few shovels put into it.


And right after that.. woohoo! the summit:




Now that's how you fan the flames:


And there was much rejoicing:

 

That's cool Rob. What do you mean by making it to the summit? I have been up there a bunch of times a while ago, and don't recall a summit. Maybe I didn't make the right turn or something. I do remember some dead end roads. Do you have a GPS track or even a waypoint of the summit?

 

That ROCKED!

It was a sloppy hill climb this week due to the rain and open diff guys but everyone made it one way or the other....

There was lightning to the south and lightning to the north as we held our flashlights high in celebration of the summit There is something strange about standing on the highest peak to watch lightning

 

I'm not sure what they call that mountain we were standing on but you can turn 360* and all you see is other mountain peaks (at eye level) To get to this summit you would have had to make the hill climb.

 

As Ben mentioned, when you make the summit, you know it. It's the high point of that section of the ridge and is the highest point you can get to from the Tinkham exit. It took several trips up there, spent simply exploring to finally find the right combination of turns to get there. The winning combination is boulder garden, tank trap, hill climb, summit

I might have a GPS trace somewhere, but wouldn't that take all the fun out of the exploration?

 

That was very cool making it to the summit last night. That view is amazing and I special ordered that beautiful sunset for us.

Hopefully Mark will be posting my pics tomorrow (if he will be so kind), so everyone can see all the fools with their snow shovels, and that guy with the bottle of lighter fluid.

 

yeah, i might be able to get the pics i took off my friends camera tonight, but i gotsta work, so who knows.

 

:wtf: I can't post pics they show up as links :wtf:

still can't do it

 

Are you being post defective again? ehheheh

 

It appears to be your host...

 

I understand defective

 

Stupid monty pics I need a better host.

 

Buwhaaa! What a kick.
I do say the hillclimb was a mucky slick joyride. Needed a bit more skinny then Im used to but hey.....I didn't have to use the new winch line.

 

quiet you! ohhhhhh look at me i have a locker *prances around in a circle waving his hands*

 

hmm...if you can make it, maybe i will go up there

accually i think me and another guy might try to go up there in a week or 2.

Show you guys how its done

 

Merged in Ken's thread.