Deja ride to RC Jan 20th and 21st Trail Report

well as you can see from the pics yesterday was a successful run with 7 jeeps in attendance from three tjs, two cherokee's, one grand cherokee, and one yj. since we had two people that it was there first time out we decided to take it easy and see how they did, even though both jeeps where highly built, with the red cherokee having a 5in RE longarm kit 33" truxs mt's and a rear arb. While the Grand has a 4 in teraflex, and a 2in spacer lift to net 6 in of lift.

The group finally started away from the office at 9ish and headed up to 1a thinking it would be a good start for those that had not been off-road before. Most chose to do the gully with the first timers being a bit timid but the red cherokee did give it a try. The next thing you know we are running the black rock garden with everyone making it through no problem. We then made our way to the pole line and did the short up hill there right near where camp C used to be with a few people choosing to take the harder line. Following that the group decided to try Yellow jacket, where anyone that wanted to try made it up. After taking so video and everyone getting up we then made our way to trail 2 with everyone making it through no problem. The group continued on to the back side of Crawler Ridge and down the back side, again with a few people going down the harder part. we then broke for lunch and after everyone decide that standing around in 15 degree weather and talking sucked we made our way to the west propertywhere we played on Big Rocks for a little bit and then took trail 12c before beginning our trip back to the east property the trip had been very uneventful as far as breakage until the very last hill where i decided that we should come down behind the office but on one of the black hill climbs everyone made it down ok with the exception of the Grand cherokee which took a bad line and ended up almost going over and putting a dent in to the driver side door and severly scratching the body up, we ended up winching him out in reverse and having him drive down U3 and out to the staging area. I hope everyone had a good trip and approciate all the help we go with the retival of the Grand and all the pics and video taken by zeke i had a great time and got to meet some new faces even though i am terrible with names and can't remember anyones from the trip so please post up here so i can change the jeeps to the names of people.

Many thanks to everyone on Saturday's ride for making this clueless first-timer feel at home, and kudos to Chris for being a terrific trail boss. His expert driving and complete disregard of the laws of physics were an inspiration to us all. It was a great day. We didn't even feel the cold once we got started. The trails were tougher than I expected -- my carb wasn't the only thing that was challenged, but my junk made it home, so it was a good first day. Can't wait for the next one.

Jay McMillan

P.S. Does anybody have pictures from Saturday to post?

Great pics (waiting for more)! Two days, two great rides. I know that she's not seeing this, but the lady on the desk at the Comfort Inn was really cool. No water at check-in, so I asked if we got complementary beer. She went and got us some. We B.S. with her about jeeps, kids, sports, and the best place to eat... all good. Chris & Chris pretty covered the real report. I'm looking forward to the next ride. See ya.

Randy