I really enjoyed this trip despite making things difficult for the rest of the 'hard trail' guys who had to keep rescuing my sorry butt from poor choice of lines around some of the rockier challenges. Thanks guys for spotting and rock placement exercises!

The following picts are from the hard trail group run.

Airing down at the base of Gold Mountain



Convoying up Gold Mountain trail



My truck awaiting its first challenge at Gold Mountain (little did it know it was about to get hung up and need a tug out in reverse to improve the line)



The first major obstacle on Gold Mountain







First snow ball fight of the year for SoCal YT

 

Goodtimes gets a sidewall tear



Further along the trail



Then we came to John Bull! Hell of a rock garden albeit a short one but an indicator of more to come... Here Goodtimes leads the way. Lots of crunching and wheel spinning but failure was not an option (well least not for some!) None of the shots here are poser photos, just action as it happened. I'm sure others will have even better shots.


















I'll leave others to fill in the blanks, but thankyou guys, it was fun and I learnt more again about my truck.

Cheers
Mark

 

Sweet ass 4th gen there.

 

Nice pics. Got any more info on that green 4th gen.

 

https://www.yotatech.com/forums/f80/chaos-edition-69073/

 

Damn looks like you guys had a lot of fun!!! I totally missed out, what a bummer!!! Oh hey Expat I couldn't tell in your pics if you had any sliders do you have any and if you did, did you need any for that trail?? Oh yea last thing did you have lockers when you ran that trail???

 

Yes, I have Hanna Sliders. They took a few scrapes but I needed more protection under the truck and on the front and rear bumpers. My front skid pan is toast and the fuel tank protection pan took some good hits. The chassis rails were used for some good rock sliding too. And that was before John Bull! I did not make it thru John Bull. Once we got to the rock garden I did a regretful exit and met them on the other side. It's possible I could have gotten thru but I really didn't want any more damage that day :cry:

I don\t have lockers which got me in trouble a few times. Some others did have lockers. Not sure who exactly.

 

This was a fun trip, guys. Glad I made it.
It very well even accelerated my upcoming front locker acquisition.

I've got a few pics, and will get them up soon on my site. I hope to see some more pics from the rest of you guys and I'll get those on there too.



neat shot, josh.

 

Thanks for the great time guys! I had a blast and it was awesome to get back out on the dirt

I'll have photos up soon!

 

Bruce, you gotta post up the pics you took, I know you got some good ones.

 

looks good

 

Where's the rest of the photos?

 

EASY, right here (i mean from the easy foursome)
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thats me in the only 2wd
[IMG][/IMG] oops. just a little scratch
down this hill to Burnt Flat
here we are, lunch break
view from the top towards Lucerne Valley (limestone plant)

my son and i had a lot of fun. thanx for the spotting alan.

 

I'll get some up asap, just been real busy .....

 

Lance, you look so small in that monster!!!

 

lance i must say i like you new bumpers much better, your'e making me want to buy a new rig.... nah....

 

Finally set up a photo album

Big Bear December 10, 2005

 

Damn that looks liek fun.

What is the damage report like?

I'd like to hit that trail once the snow is gone.

 

The best pic award goes to-