After trying a few times to rally some people together for a trip to Elbe, it finally came together this weekend.
Dellstopjeep, BPB, and myself planned to head up Saturday bright and early. I crashed at Eric's Friday night, and Ben showed up at 0445 with a Ben-style wake up call of blasting Space Jam on the TV, and doing a laser light show with the light switches.
We left Woodland around 0630 after stopping for a few things. Elbe is an easy two hour drive north. Sunrise over Highway 12.
Since none of us had been there before we were kind of flying blind getting to the ORV area. Needless to say we eventually found the right roads, and pulled into the day use area at 0830. Most of the group had already arrived. I snapped a picture of the map for reference on my phone, turned out to be a good idea later in the day.
After doing the usual wheeling rituals of airing down, ditiching the camping gear, and for Eric making another pit stop, we were heading to the trails shortly after 0900. First trail of the day was Sunrise.
It was dry, and obnoxiously dusty.
Mnkyboy brought out his MJ for a shake down run after some recent mods.
We ran Sunrise to Mainline, and stopped for a trail repair for one of the Samurais before starting the Busy Wild.
We had a pretty good sized group, and a variety of rigs from XJ's to Samurai's, and even a "Dota."
Eventually it was time to wheel, and start the Busy Wild. Eric on the first obstacle.
At some point the trail was sunk a good six feet into the ground, with banks on both sides. Usually this is when a rootball tried to rip the side of your vehicle off. Nathen and Adam standing "above" my rig.
The Dota found a good sized stump to get hung up on even with 42's. A quick pull from the cable freed him.
Branden doing some timbercrawling.
The one and only, BPB.
Front of the group snaking between the trails.
Eric coming dropping down an optional line.
Dellstopjeep, BPB, and myself planned to head up Saturday bright and early. I crashed at Eric's Friday night, and Ben showed up at 0445 with a Ben-style wake up call of blasting Space Jam on the TV, and doing a laser light show with the light switches.
We left Woodland around 0630 after stopping for a few things. Elbe is an easy two hour drive north. Sunrise over Highway 12.

Since none of us had been there before we were kind of flying blind getting to the ORV area. Needless to say we eventually found the right roads, and pulled into the day use area at 0830. Most of the group had already arrived. I snapped a picture of the map for reference on my phone, turned out to be a good idea later in the day.

After doing the usual wheeling rituals of airing down, ditiching the camping gear, and for Eric making another pit stop, we were heading to the trails shortly after 0900. First trail of the day was Sunrise.

It was dry, and obnoxiously dusty.

Mnkyboy brought out his MJ for a shake down run after some recent mods.

We ran Sunrise to Mainline, and stopped for a trail repair for one of the Samurais before starting the Busy Wild.

We had a pretty good sized group, and a variety of rigs from XJ's to Samurai's, and even a "Dota."

Eventually it was time to wheel, and start the Busy Wild. Eric on the first obstacle.

At some point the trail was sunk a good six feet into the ground, with banks on both sides. Usually this is when a rootball tried to rip the side of your vehicle off. Nathen and Adam standing "above" my rig.

The Dota found a good sized stump to get hung up on even with 42's. A quick pull from the cable freed him.

Branden doing some timbercrawling.

The one and only, BPB.

Front of the group snaking between the trails.

Eric coming dropping down an optional line.
