YELLAHEEP
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JohnJohn said:
Yeah, yeah, yeah...... go ahead and take the humor out of it....
Mr. A. Retentive!!!
Spring Creek 12 or 13?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah...... go ahead and take the humor out of it....
Mr. A. Retentive!!!
JohnJohn
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- Austin, Texas
YELLAHEEP said:
Note the :laugh3: humors remains... :wierd: :laugh3:
YELLAHEEP
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Oh yeah, the most important thing I learned from this run.......
Once you think you've properly hooked up your trailer to the truck.... check it again! I dunno how I managed this, but I drove from my house to the trailhead without the trailer locked to the hitch ball! :scared: Friggin' thing stayed attached!
JohnJohn was standing right by the trailer when I was backing the XJ off and we both freaked when the front of the trailer went skyward! I stopped with the front of the XJ still on the trailer. I got really dadgum lucky - the only damage was a smashed rear license plate and some minor bumper scratches. The tip of the trailer's socket caught on the bottom edge of the tailgate..... shoulda been so much worse!
I had to put the XJ in 4wd to help hold the trailer in place so I could move the truck forward and get the trailer socket away from the tailgate. What was even luckier, was that all JJ and I had to do was push down on the trailer and lock the socket onto the ball to get everything straightened out.
:twak:
Once you think you've properly hooked up your trailer to the truck.... check it again! I dunno how I managed this, but I drove from my house to the trailhead without the trailer locked to the hitch ball! :scared: Friggin' thing stayed attached!
JohnJohn was standing right by the trailer when I was backing the XJ off and we both freaked when the front of the trailer went skyward! I stopped with the front of the XJ still on the trailer. I got really dadgum lucky - the only damage was a smashed rear license plate and some minor bumper scratches. The tip of the trailer's socket caught on the bottom edge of the tailgate..... shoulda been so much worse!
I had to put the XJ in 4wd to help hold the trailer in place so I could move the truck forward and get the trailer socket away from the tailgate. What was even luckier, was that all JJ and I had to do was push down on the trailer and lock the socket onto the ball to get everything straightened out.
:twak:
JohnJohn
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All the crap you give me about my plate...I think you earned that bad plate MOJO. 
Seriously...that coud have been a lot worse!!
Seriously...that coud have been a lot worse!!
YELLAHEEP
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Wait a minute........ you were standing AWFULLY close to my trailer just before that happened...... "bad plate mojo"...... I'm smelling sabotage!
:laugh3:
:laugh3:
JohnJohn
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:angel:
jrsxj98
DILIGAF
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ok ok enough footsie you to. Like terry said any pics of yesterday?
JohnJohn
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jrsxj98 said:
xjHAMMER. any pics yet...DUDE!
fatwreck
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yeah, I can't believe I read through all that crap only to find a couple of pictures from a few years ago. :huh:
hook us up already.....
hook us up already.....
planefixer
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- Colorado Springs, CO
Sounds like you guys had fun.Wish I could have made the trip but I was a little busy yesterday.Oh well maybe next time.
XJhammer
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- Westminster, CO
I don't remember how to post pics.
MMIXJ
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- Golden, CO
fatwreck said:
...and i can't believe they needed a winch! :moon:
brian i don't recall you or i needing a winch when we ran spring creek a couple of weeks ago?!
terry
JohnJohn
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MMIXJ said:...and i can't believe they needed a winch! :moon:
brian i don't recall you or i needing a winch when we ran spring creek a couple of weeks ago?!
terry
yap. yap yap. According to the video I saw on Brian's site you guys took some easy lines. Granted the first obstacle was me just getting caught in MY bad line.
The other place I took the cable was the left obstacle, were Terry went right. Right was a pretty easy line if you ask me. I ran the line Brian took, granted after 10+ other rigs beat it to crap in the rain. The pics will show you that there was no one climbing out from under that rock my rear tire was under. I never have a problem taking the cable if I know I took the hardest line possible. Especially if I have two good buddies standing in the rain/snow for 20 minutes spotting me. :laugh3:
Terry how did the sandbox turn out?
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JohnJohn
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jrsxj98
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Ding Ding round 1 lol.....:cheers:
fatwreck
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YELLAHEEP said:
It bums me out to read that....your rig was pretty damn straight.
I can see how it could happen on that first obstacle though. I was definitely looking back at that corner as I climbed up the rock.
I'm anxious to see what lines you guys took on the obstacles and in the rock garden.
MMIXJ
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i'm just bustin' your chops...
i ran most of the difficult lines (and got hung up more than once), but you're right-- in the rock
garden at the second section i went right (i assume that's where you're talking about going left?).
brian's 35s weren't going up that ledge/rock so i didn't even try:
sandbox: rain delay.
hopefully tuesday now.grrr... weather report says snow on vail pass today.
terry
JohnJohn
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MMIXJ said:
i'm just bustin' your chops...
i ran most of the difficult lines (and got hung up more than once), but you're right-- in the rock
garden at the second section i went right (i assume that's where you're talking about going left?).
brian's 35s weren't going up that ledge/rock so i didn't even try:
sandbox: rain delay.
grrr... weather report says snow on vail pass today.
terry
Yup, that's the spot, but of course I remember the hole under that rock being a lot deeper.
The first cable for was my stupidity. I have run that first climb about 10 times and just forgot the line. That one, I except the ribbing on.
YELLAHEEP
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MMIXJ said:
I gotta back JJ up on this one. From this pic of Formatt's rig, it looks like his right rear tire is on or close to the ground in front of that under-cut rock. When JJ tried it, his tire was hanging about a foot above the ground and his rock rail was right on the peak of that rock - total droop of his rear axle.
Some guy in a TJ with tons of bolt-on Poison Spyder pieces tore the shiznit outta that line just before JJ tried it. I still can't believe that guy didn't break an axle shaft with all the stoopid pedal he gave it.
