Trail Reports - PAP - 2/20

Good report but you forgot the part about where I almost rolled on Turtle(Yes its a green trail). The small ditch that everyone got air on, I was not so lucky and began to slide. Luckily Joe was close by for a little extra balast. Other than my adventure on M-trail (getting stuck both forward and backward between two rocks) it was a great run. I know i saw tons of air under everyones tires this trip and lots of pinstriping thanks to Ians adventurous trail guiding. I think Artie and atest to that. I will keep you updated on my trail damage, i know there are lots of scrapes and bruises but nothing too major.
Ed (Glad he got to hone his reverse trail riding skillz)

Thanks for the update, Ian, I was wondering what you folks did yesterday.

The other group consisted of Keith (Keith_C) and passenger Chris (quadna71), Tony (Da Mutt) and passenger, James (James), Josh (GOTMUDD02), Chuck (oromaine) and passenger, Rob (rafartist) and girlfriend, and me (BlueJ) with passenger/spotter/all-round troublemaker Gavan (gavan).

We started out from Rubicon lake with the intention of heading down Turtle, but, because Josh and Chuck were new to rocks, decided to start off on Turtle Rocks instead. With some good spotting, everyone made it through OK and we then continued down Turtle to the bottom. Near the bottom we stopped to investigate Da Mutt's huge clouds of fumes spewing from his exhaust. Not finding anything crippling, Tony elects to continue on.

We then headed to Outer Spare Tire for a little stream crossing fun. It has become so eroded, that there are really no challenging spots anymore, so we decide to head to Inner Spare Tire. First off the mark was Rob, heading for the mud puddle (not Greg's puddle, the one in front of it). Almost stuck and all muddy, Rob managed to get himself out. No one elects to try Greg's puddle.

We spent a while at the Inner Spare Tire crossing. I went first through the middle descent, and with my flat skid slid right down. Josh tried to follow, and got himself stuck on the stump. Keith's jeep with a strap was not enough to get him off, so we hooked up Chuck's 12,000 lb. winch and towed Josh off the stump. Next up was Rob, who got stuck in exactly the same place, and Chuck's winch was used again. Everyone else (except Tony) took the easy crossing on the right side, with Tony electing to take Da Mutt over the rocks to the left. With some maneuvering, he also made it through. No one had any problems getting out on the other side, though, unlike in years past.

We did get to watch a 4-wheeler (towing a broken one) do a back flip into the drink and onto the broken one trying to get across the stream at the alternate crossing.

We didn't quite make it back to the Spring in time for lunch with the other group because of a few deceptive mud puddles with frozen mud-bergs that sucked in a few jeeps. A few straps were needed to get off of the Inner Spare Tire trail.

We shared the Spring with three Hummers (H1s), a jeep, and an AWD Astro minivan while we ate our lunch. Tony did a quick oil change while we ate. As we finished up, James did some hill climbs and managed to break his jeep. The clip that holds the shifter broke, and he couldn't (easily) change gears. We left James' jeep at the Spring while we did another trail.

We started out wandering aimlessly along the trails, and since we found ourselves at Sleepy Hollow and everyone seemed to be doing well on the rocks, we headed on in. I pulled right through, and then walked back to remind everyone that we needed to be off the trails by 4 pm, only to find Gavan spotting Rob into a wedge between two big rocks. With some scraping, we backed him out and around the right way. Then Chris started guiding others into poser positions, as the clocks continued ticking. After that tomfoolery, as we walked to the top of the trail, there was Josh's jeep vertical up on the rock with his tailpipe dug into the ground. After some work, he was finally pulled down with little damage.

We then completed the trail, exiting though the lower part of Rabbit Run, and headed back to Haul Road. Along the way, Da Mutt stopped to check into a steering problem while I took a few back to the Spring to get James's jeep. We then to a mad sprint up Haul Road, down Valley, across Coal Road, to reach the Staging Area at 3:58. Whew!

James's jeep got my trailer behind Gavan's truck, so I had to drive BlueJ home. The trip was fine... the hardest part was figuring out how much the toll was going to cost me, the type on that ticket was too small for my old eyes to focus on. Also, everyone eventually decided that my maximum 60 MPH was just too slow and took off ahead.

I went down to Newark later in the evening to get my trailer back, and that's when the snow started to get heavy and stick to the roads.

If we missed anyone for a Trail Ride badge, let me know at the next meeting.

Andrew

Just so you know why I kept looking at the time...

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James no problem on the ride ur welcome . I would just like to let everyone know I had a great time out on my first run with you guys, and also enjoyed my first time on the rocks. You can count on seeing plenty of me. Now I just gotta figure out what I did to my Jeep :question:

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The other group consisted of... and passenger Chris (quanda71)...

3+ years on DeJA and still people can't spell my screen name.
chris

Quote from "quadna71"

3+ years on DeJA and still people can't spell my screen name.
chris

I'll take this opportunity to ask what it stands for.

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3+ years on DeJA and still people can't spell my screen name.
chris

Hmmmff! Turns out I had lots of mistakes in that post...I was rushing through, since I was here at work. I am going to go edit it to say "...passenger/troublemaker Chris (quadna71)..."

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I was wondering that too. Thanks Keith.

I just hope it's not one of those military things where he'll have to kill us after he tells us... :sad:

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I just hope it's not one of those military things where he'll have to kill us after he tells us... :sad:

naw, nothing that glamorous. i'm originally from a small town in northern minnesota called hill city. when i say small, i mean really small...

anyways, the ojibway called the area "pikwadina" or "piquadinaw", which translated to "it is hilly". the name, piquadinaw, was eventually used in it's shortened version, quadna, as the namesake of a local 4-season resort just outside of my town. this was the place that i was working fulltime at prior to entering to the service - and it seemed like a nice way to keep myself sort of "related" in name to the place i'm from. oh, and '71 is my model year
chris

p.s. our town's population sign currently has an even smaller number on it!

NOW WE KNOW.

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the name, piquadinaw, was eventually used in it's shortened version, quadna, as the namesake of a local 4-season resort just outside of my town.

I've actually seen Quadna Mountain in person when we traveled to Minnesota this past summer and I must say...it was kinda freaky seeing his username on a huge sign....

Pretty cool finding out about peoples usernames and where they come from.
Lets you know a little more about the individual.