It was a Great turn out for a week day run. We had 7 jeeps: 2 Rubicon's, 2 YJ's, 3 XJ's all the Jeep's were DeJA members. There were 13 people and 2 dog's.
Zeke
Copesetic
TechrecueII
RubiconMan03
Clayduster
BHD
Tugboat
First I want to thank every one that came and made it a fun day.
Second I want to thank BHD for being the trail leader and making it a wonderfull trip.
Every one meet at the Red lion around 09:00 and had a nice Breakfeast. We then proceeded down 206s to a memorial were we could air down and get ready for the trail. With DHD in the lead we went on some trail that had plenty of room so there was not so much pine striping. And came to our first mud puddle it was a good test to see what each Jeep and driver was capable of. That was when one of the YJ. found out that he did not have 4 wheel drive. With some help and parts from the outher YJ thy got it fixed.
When they were fixing the Yj the rest of the grope went on th a place called 1/4 mile puddle It looked a lot worse then it was. And BHD went back for the YJ's while we played in the ice and mud.
The next person to get stuck was ME. I was going through some deep mud and braking ice when I came to a sudden hard dead stop. I thought I might have hit a tree stump and was hung up on it. All fore of my wheels were just spinning and not touching the ground. Zeke tried to pull me out from the back and could not get traction. Copestic hooked up behind him to do a double pull still my XJ would not move.
Then we herd a terrible sound and a puff of dust from the right front of Zeke's rig. He popped a universal joint and wiped out the yoke on the outer shaft. When Copesetic was getting Zeke out I used my winch and a tree about 80 feet away to pull myself forward. I looked like I had High centered my diffs on hard sand because you could see the sand get plowed up as I pulled my self out.
We went down the trail to a dry spot and ate lunch while Zeke made repares on his rig. Or should we say make it to three wheel drive. When he was finished we started heading out but stopped at a nice place to play in the water. Even Zeke had fun in three wheel drive. After that we started to head back.
just short of 206 I started to have a problem I thought it was a front hub baring going out. We stopped there and BHD took me to get the trailer. When I was loading the Jeep on the trailer some one noticed that it was not a bad bearing but loose lug nuts. (Do I feel stupid.) At that point we started home.
