- Location
- Westminster, SoCal
We started off about 9:10.... or actually it all started at 5:30am when my alarm clock woke me up. After leaving home I have met up with Mike Lysik in Yorba LInda and drove up to Running Springs where we gassed up and picked up Curt on the road. AFter getting to Sequoia's camp (wooho... I actually found it pretty quick) I went back to the main road, hung a sign directing XJ's to the staging area (on my way to the main road I came across Tim and his son... sorry I forgot his name again 
).
Anyways, when I got back to the staging area, we got Jason Jones join us up and we have departed picking up Sequoia, Holly, and Mike (Sequoia's dad) at the camp.. so now we had Young Ryan (and his sleeping pilot), Sequoia and Holly, Mike Lysik, Tim and his son, Jason Jones and his daughter (I don't think I ever caught her name.. but she was one brave trooper ), Curt, Mike (Sequoia's dad in the ranger) and myself (I think I didn't leave anyone off).
We were off to a pretty good start up the 3N16 to 2N06x which was pretty fun. Almost right off the bat on 2N06X I have been the perfect point for the group.... I have shown everyone which rock to avoid as they could get hung on it... After some wheel spinning in the air (I was hanging a bit on the left rock rail... ) I have done some hi lifting on both sides, put a rock here, a rock there and backed up and up over to the right and I was free. Right after that I had MIke L spot me between couple others and I have completed the rock garden..... Everyone else pretty much did good as they knew which line not too take (I probably would have been way better off if I didn't go charging down without scoping it out.. guess what... from that point on... I was out at anything that looked even remotedly rough LOL)
ANyways... from that point on we charged on to 3N93 and then over couple creek crossings (there was one that had this rock that almost everyone hit... it just depended on whether the vehicle created wave was coming in and hiding it or going out). Then we got on to 3N08 and up on to 3N89 where we stopped to do a quick repair on Sequoia's LCA. He has complained a bit of noise and it turned out that it got tweaked a bit so with some loosening and a tug from strap by jason it readjusted itself more or less and allowed him to complete the trail. At this time Sequoia also discovered some nasty dents in his cross member.
Moving on we crossed over to 3N17 and have completed the trail with some fun rocks going both up and down.......
I would have to say it's been fun meeting everyone and also I Would like to say that each map that we had showed something completely different and none of them really matched the reality LOL ( I will allow someone else to elaborate on this matter)
Getting back to damages:
Well, I know that Sequoia banged his crossmember pretty bad, pushed his LCA back and had to have a "tow trap" rescue pull it back to the proper positon (more or less), also I think he mentioned something abotu a cat....
Myself I scraped the rails all over plus I have put in one dent in my crossmember (GRRR I gotta get the $$ for the SYE and a new shaft one of these days so that I Can remove the drop and maybe have a high clearance crossmember).... And for the kicker... my passenger tire (I think on a full stuffage) as I turned has pulled in the fender panel and bent it in and popped off a flare... so about 3 minutes in gloves got it straight more or less.. and the flare finished a trail in my cargo area
Any other damage? I know Mike L kept nailing his passenger side mirror and he had to keep popping it off.
All right... as I said it's been fun.. we will have to do it again and I might have pics up tomorrow (finshed off 2 rolls) and we will also get another video from the famous "Sequoia Studios" sometime later this season
Kejtar
P.S. I know I forgot something... but it will come to me later....
).Anyways, when I got back to the staging area, we got Jason Jones join us up and we have departed picking up Sequoia, Holly, and Mike (Sequoia's dad) at the camp.. so now we had Young Ryan (and his sleeping pilot), Sequoia and Holly, Mike Lysik, Tim and his son, Jason Jones and his daughter (I don't think I ever caught her name.. but she was one brave trooper
), Curt, Mike (Sequoia's dad in the ranger) and myself (I think I didn't leave anyone off).We were off to a pretty good start up the 3N16 to 2N06x which was pretty fun. Almost right off the bat on 2N06X I have been the perfect point for the group.... I have shown everyone which rock to avoid as they could get hung on it... After some wheel spinning in the air (I was hanging a bit on the left rock rail... ) I have done some hi lifting on both sides, put a rock here, a rock there and backed up and up over to the right and I was free. Right after that I had MIke L spot me between couple others and I have completed the rock garden..... Everyone else pretty much did good as they knew which line not too take (I probably would have been way better off if I didn't go charging down without scoping it out.. guess what... from that point on... I was out at anything that looked even remotedly rough LOL)
ANyways... from that point on we charged on to 3N93 and then over couple creek crossings (there was one that had this rock that almost everyone hit... it just depended on whether the vehicle created wave was coming in and hiding it or going out). Then we got on to 3N08 and up on to 3N89 where we stopped to do a quick repair on Sequoia's LCA. He has complained a bit of noise and it turned out that it got tweaked a bit so with some loosening and a tug from strap by jason it readjusted itself more or less and allowed him to complete the trail. At this time Sequoia also discovered some nasty dents in his cross member.
Moving on we crossed over to 3N17 and have completed the trail with some fun rocks going both up and down.......
I would have to say it's been fun meeting everyone and also I Would like to say that each map that we had showed something completely different and none of them really matched the reality LOL ( I will allow someone else to elaborate on this matter)
Getting back to damages:
Well, I know that Sequoia banged his crossmember pretty bad, pushed his LCA back and had to have a "tow trap" rescue pull it back to the proper positon (more or less), also I think he mentioned something abotu a cat....
Myself I scraped the rails all over plus I have put in one dent in my crossmember (GRRR I gotta get the $$ for the SYE and a new shaft one of these days so that I Can remove the drop and maybe have a high clearance crossmember).... And for the kicker... my passenger tire (I think on a full stuffage) as I turned has pulled in the fender panel and bent it in and popped off a flare... so about 3 minutes in gloves got it straight more or less.. and the flare finished a trail in my cargo area
Any other damage? I know Mike L kept nailing his passenger side mirror and he had to keep popping it off.
All right... as I said it's been fun.. we will have to do it again and I might have pics up tomorrow (finshed off 2 rolls) and we will also get another video from the famous "Sequoia Studios" sometime later this season
Kejtar
P.S. I know I forgot something... but it will come to me later....
