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Penrose Saturday (5/15)

time2getdirty

time2getdirty

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Cheyenne, Wyoming
We have decided to head down to Penrose this weekend. We will be camping somewhere in the area Friday night and wheeling all day Saturday. I would like to get to Canon City for dinner then camp out somewhere around there Saturday night.

We would love to have someone wheel with us since we have never been in that area.

Also, any recommendations for a place to eat dinner in Canon City?
 
I would join ya, as that is my backyard.....:laugh: BUT I have drill in Denver this weekend :patriot: If you like Mexican food, El Caporal is very good, it is on main 800 block I believe. If you just want some good ole American burgers, Big Burger World on south 9th is awesome!!
 
Just got dropped off at home by a tow truck. And Yes the gate was open.
I will post pics and video in the morning.

My Gosh. I do/don't want to do that again.
 
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1) Broke the rear brake line
2) Broke the u-joint straps on the rear yoke -Along with trashing the u-joint
3) Broke rear ARB switch
4) Power steering on it's last leg
5) Clutch didn't smell to good either

We could have limped home but my AAA membership is renewing at the end of the month and I haven't used it at all for the last two years.

Actually will have pics and videos tonight.
 
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Ok. I know it’s a long read so if you don’t want to read, just look at pictures.

Friday after school I get home and pack the jeep, mean while my Dad is getting off of work and about to fall into a big mess of traffic which delays our departure time to 7pm. So we leave Westminster, have dinner at Crown Burger, and arrive at the air down area by the trail around 9:30pm. We see people trying to flash us down with flashlights, so we go to investigate.(This is when I think this trip started heading for the worse) It turns out, a group of four wheelers decided to run liberty right after the rain storm 2 hours previous. One of the guys had a linked YJ on tons and 42”s that had broke down and couldn’t move about halfway down liberty. With no way around the YJ the rest of the group turns around and heads back up. They made it to the entrance which was basically a big muddy hill. The now leader of the group was a XJ on Dana 60’s and 42”s, while trying to make it up the entrance he sheared the Rear pinion. At that point no one could get around him so they where all forced to wait out the now already dark night. That’s when we showed up, we tied the back of our Cherokee to a tree at the top of the entrance and winched the Jeep to the top. We then went on to winch out the last two in the group witch where also XJs on tons and 37”s. We where the Heroes! We went and hung out with them until 1-2Am when we passed out in the back of our jeep. The next morning we decided to Drop into Liberty to go rescue the YJ. We then went and meet up with Some Friends from Crane 4x4 and hung out with them while they did patriot and independence. Around 3pm it was time for all of us who didn’t want to do patriot to turn around and go back the way we came in. This was extremely hard because we had all the damage besides the driveshaft issue by this point. We navigated our way all the way to the Entrance with no steering and a nice and toasty clutch. When we got to the Entrance my Dad, Mr. Lead-foot, Took a little too aggressive attitude towards the hill and ended up bouncing repeatedly up the mountain until the sliders finally bounced and sent the back tires 2 feet into the air, as the tire came back to earth the Bolts that hold the straps to the yoke sheared and sent the u-joint caps flying. That was pretty much the end of our weekend so we decided to head home and start fixing the jeep in hope to have it ready for Moab by Thursday.

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Please look in my wanted thread to help get us ready for Moab.
 
Holyfreakincow!!! Talk about a night you'll never forget! :D

At least the weather looked fair.
 
It was a muddy mess Friday night, but it dried out and turned out to be pretty awesome.

Friday night there was some crazy shenanigans going on, Crazy pitbull dog running around, People eating frozen breakfast burritos, and potato gun shooting!
 
Liberty is a very unforgiving trail. Hopefully your story, pics, and videos will convince those with lesser built rigs to stay off it.

Now as far as having to get towed home...

You knuckleheads!! There are many members that live in the general vacinity of the trail that would gladly help get ya back on the road safely.

Next time you go wheeling, make sure you print out the following Stickied Thread.
http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1007385
 
We were down there and it started sprinkling and I got nervous. Liberty is a killer trail but wet would be a nitemare. What did you think of it overall ?
 
We were watching the group we were with as they were running Patriot in the buggies when it was sprinkling!

Overall I think it was an awesome hardcore trail, but maybe not something we should be doing 5 days before its time to leave for Moab.
 
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