Hollister Hills April 7th

Well I went, but had to bail because the XJ kept dying on me. Of course it happen just as the main group went down "The Bitch Trail" and I stuck to the medium trail. Just as well because I wouldn't have wanted to be the hold up on the trail. At least I was able to make it home with out too much trouble.

I couldn't raise anyone on the CB so I called Tom who called Jes's cell phone and left a message. Don't want anyone thinking I was lost.

It was great to see everyone again.

Mary
 
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Here are a few pics
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Starboard M said:
Whos white 2 door is that?

:)

Had a great time. My little girl did great, with just a little fuss when she waited forever for Nick to get out while our Jeep was at a 45 degree angle. I snapped a few shots:

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Capt Nemo on frame twister
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Opie feelin the squeeze
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The EB gettin some air
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Opie in the creek
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Letterman in the creek
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Near the top of white rock
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Great trip.

Good to finally meet a few people, and good to make better friends out of people I already knew!

8 Rigs (as far as my count) were there, and other than a few tires, no real damage...

Other than a little self inflicted body damage, my jeep came out un-scathed - and I cant hope for better than that!

My pictures will be uploaded... sometime... :D
 
some of my photos from the day Lovdaxj on B!tch trail:
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Nick Mobb'in that Jeep:
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Lovdaxj's roof rack found a tree:
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Roof Rack:

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Found a baby Snake as we walked back to see what happened to the rest of the group:
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Then we found Nick and Gus stuck, popped a side wall and lost a bead, so we had to drive back down around and tie off to one another:
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Then we snach blocked off a tree to hold the jeep:
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No longer working, Gus went on to talk about how Nick and Gus were NOT 2 different people:
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I went to work with Opie holding the back end up:
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After trying 2 different rachet straps we got out the break parts cleaner and lit a fire:
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Winched Nick out and Gus drove home.
 
Uppon our arrival, we found that Nick had already gotten stuck before we got there. LuvdaXJ gave him the tug that he needed to get off the logs -
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Mark decided to run Squeze rock and let the guy taking pictures for the park map shoot a few shots of him -
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Letterman made friends with a fish -
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BC Helped Niki take her top off -
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Nick and Gus got jacked pretty good here.... for a few hours -
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I took a poser shot of my rig as i waited and heckled -
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Walked back to see what was up with White Rhino and friends... A ranger was definately on its side...
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Captn Nemo played Dad for the day -
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walked back up - Nick hadnt really moved...
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Yay!
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Someone was going to die by Hi-lift with all the weird angles we had to use to get Nicks junk un-jacked -
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after free-ing nick from the need to explain why all his parts were in a box in the garage and not on his jeep (Lockers, Gears, Beadlocks, Winch, Axles...) we ate lunch.

Stoney Ford decided to run the creek trail thing...
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Letterman did it too -
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Niki on white rock -
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Tail light shot -
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Scenic poser shot -
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Cooler scenic poser shot -
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Good times

rest of my pics are here:
http://www.opiebennett.com/images/Jeep/HollisterHills40707/index.html
 
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Great day out. To top it off we got to heckle Nick and Gus for 3 hours while trying to get him off the trail. :confused1

I only took a few pics, even though I was just a passenger for the day.

Just a couple of shots that I got along the way.

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Great day out on the trail. :yelclap:
 
Bryan C. said:
Group shot from a past chapter run to Hollister Hills.
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Hope to see you guys there!


HAHAHAHa when i first lifted my xj i tried ramping up that hill/wall and smashed down on my crossmember and bent it in pretty bad.
 
XJ_ranger said:
Stoney Ford decided to run the creek trail thing...
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i camped 5 feet from there tuesday night!
 
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