Scott Wrigglesworth has a try at the last ledge. He gave it a few attempts until, what we thought was just his lock out, grenaded. Turns out it was his Detroit Locker and the lock out. That pretty much ended his fun for the weekend. Scott limped out the rest of the trail with a broken lock out in three wheel drive. Luckily except for a long down hill section it was basically a two track fire road from here.
One of the Western Slope Wheelers, our tail gunner for the day, shows us how to almost roll your Jeep when the rock underneath his drivers rear tire picks up and rolls. Oscar, the name of the Jeep, did a little dance before settling back down. After that he wisely chose to winch up and over.
Cory is posing his Bronco again. Actaully Cory's Bronco was having locker troubles as well. He ran a Lock Rite up front and it decided to go into forever ratcheting mode this weekend. Sometimes it would work and Cory would have all four turning and then suddenly it would start ratcheting and he would be back to three wheels.
We all stop to pose for a group shot and take a rest after finishing the last hard obstacle. A short hike up from were the trucks were parked provided a great view of the surronding area and got us this shot. Off to the right in the picture is the long downhill drop.
Here Terry, one of our favorite trail guides of the weekend, starts off on Calamity Canyon.
Tim Nevadomski drives his CJ-7 through a relatively flat portion of the trail.
But that quickly changes and Tim ask me to do a little Jeep surfing in an effort to get his front tire back on the ground. Of course my slim figure was hardly a match for the Jeep.
The rocks quickly get large and the trail is quite challenging with many short ledges to climb over. These ledges took just the right line and a lttle blip of the throttle to get up and over. But sometimes that didn't work and the strap was called for or the shiny silver thread was pulled.
Tim fresh from flopping on his side waits while Jerry succesfully gets up the ledge.
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"Well there has to be something underneath there I am not sliding past. No take a look." Geez how could I not see that huge rock that was hanging underneath.
"I think if I can get my passenger tire on the on rock and keep my drivers tire on the other rock it will slide right over." By god if it didn't work. Up and over I went. At least as far as you know it did.
Tim makes short work of the ledge on Calamity Canyon. Many people were able to crawl their way up this with relatively little problems. But the ledge was exiciting enough and challenging enough that a small crowd gathered to watch everyone give it a shot.
Jerry makes it look sick easy. For such a crappy looking- err I mean trail carressed rig it sure does wheel. But ask him about those new Jeep parts he put on their that really make it a worthy trail rig. :^)
Terry makes the last climb out of the Canyon up to the two track. There were three different exits here. None were easy and many required a heavy foot to get up.
Jerry revs the snot out his little Toyota. With that Marlin Crawler and the 4.88 gears it sounded like he was about to spit the pistons out through the hood at any second when he did stuff like this.