Walker Valley June 8th Pictures

[Ba-Riedo]

Teaser...

-Alex

 

[okeedokee]

Alex just to let you know I can drive!! thank you very much!!!
kindra

 

[Ba-Riedo]

Alex just to let you know I can drive!! thank you very much!!!
kindra

Ill believe it when I see it... Send some more pictures haha.

-Alex

 

[Metal Thrasher]

So, the first picture of the day was like a premonition: Rick's shirt which I'll have to post later.....


We had a great run today at Walker Valley. We started off by meeting Duane - OkeeDokee and his family. Then proceeded to wheel up to the Expressway Rockface. There Michael showed Elise the DNR Forester what we hope to do on Expressway to reduce sediment run off and errosion. Then we proceedd along Expressway and back onto Upper Mainline then had lunch at the location of the new Skills building area that is in progress.
At the end of lunch Ryan, Jeremy and Michael departed foranother engagement and Duane, Rick, Alex and I proceeded to run the rest of the Upper Mainline / Old Jeep Trail and then the Lower mainline. Then as we were having such a great run I proposed that we be sure to run the lower part of Lower Mainline which has been skipped on all my previous runs inthe area..... Bad idea....




To get to the meat of the "story":

What you get when your camera is in your hand while you go over sideways:

From this point we got Duane's rig positioned for a winch pull to right my rig on at least a couple wheels rather than the drip rail and rockers..

So here is my rig at trail's end:

Very minor damage. My nerves were defeintely rattled but in the end it all worked out.

 

[Metal Thrasher]

Rick and his shirt:

The first stage rigs with a cameo by Chapter President Ryan ( does his stride vaguely remind you of the bigfoot video?):

Rick's BBQ:

Rick Flex a lot:

 

[Metal Thrasher]

Great pic of Rick posing:

And the results:

And the final four:

 

[Ba-Riedo]

Here are the ones that came from Kindra in the best order that I can put them in.

Heading to Expressway

The bottem of the rockface

Open diffs... :wave:

Jeremy ready to give it a go, where is the video?

This is really why I got my cage

Look at those tires

Whole group

More to come.

-Alex

 

[Ba-Riedo]

Just another dent...

Flexy

This is why I love my wide sliders and tube flares.

Dragging my huge bumper around.

I love my longarms.

-Alex

 

[Ba-Riedo]

This is what you have all been waiting for...

Getting it back up.

-Alex

 

[Ba-Riedo]

Final installment.

Gatekeeper:

Final group

-Alex

 

[Metal Thrasher]

Two links to videos:

This one ends well despite how it looks:
http://s149.photobucket.com/albums/s59/tracepac/?action=view&current=P6080019.flv
And this one wraps it up:
http://s149.photobucket.com/albums/s59/tracepac/?action=view&current=P6080020.flv

 

[Mc2KXJ]

Damn, that first video totally looks like Jeremy was on his way over.

 

[Metal Thrasher]

Damn, that first video totally looks like Jeremy was on his way over.

Yeah. I dropped the camera because I was about to run over to his rig as it flopped... but it settled back.

 

[Ba-Riedo]

Yeah. I dropped the camera because I was about to run over to his rig as it flopped... but it settled back.

That was defiently a scary moment, A+ for throttle control and knowing when to let off for Jeremy.

-Alex

 

[Blkxjkrawler]

Who Black Jeep is that? I didnt think it actually wheeled.iratefla

 

[JBweld]

Great pictures guys.

So what's the story with the flop? There's nothing around the rig that looks big enough to get tippy.

-Jeremy

Oh.....and I'll get that darn rock someday!

 

[Ba-Riedo]

Great pictures guys.

So what's the story with the flop? There's nothing around the rig that looks big enough to get tippy.

-Jeremy

Oh.....and I'll get that darn rock someday!

He just drove a little bit too high up on the left side (high side of the corner) and put it down.

-Alex

 

[Ba-Riedo]

Who Black Jeep is that? I didnt think it actually wheeled.iratefla

It doesn't, I photoshopped those ones in.

-Alex

 

[fubar XJ]

Nice pics and vid, bummed out I couldn't make it. A couple of observations from the peanut gallery: (that is what we do here, right?)

Tracey: Nice soft flop, judging from the lack of damage. But I agree with Jeremy, what an innocuous place to flop. Unfortunately sometimes it's the places that look the most mundane that catch us off-guard like that.

Jeremy: The SX's look awesome. Were you impressed with them? Other than still not making the rock face, that is. I have no room to talk from an XJ perspective, still haven't made it in mine. The wheels look great too. You find a buyer for your Toyos yet?

Ryan: So you got the rig finished and back on the trail, eh? Nice. Did you do a thread running down the mods you made? Inquiring minds want to know. Give us the scoop.

Alex: The cage, sliders, tube flares and longarms look great. Now you need to get rid of those pavement pounder tires and you'll be set. Did you lock the diffs yet?

Rick: Good call on the BBQ. Done that before, it's always a big hit with the crowd. It was great wheeling with you at Tinkham, look forward to more in the future.

Now I'm jonesing for some trail time. Hurry up already NW Fest!

 

[JBweld]

Jeremy: The SX's look awesome. Were you impressed with them? Other than still not making the rock face, that is. I have no room to talk from an XJ perspective, still haven't made it in mine. The wheels look great too. You find a buyer for your Toyos yet?

The SX's kicked butt! I really like them. I noticed they were different right away, even on the logging roads. I was having to fight the steering a little more because they grab so much better. Very impressed.

Still have one new Toyo left to sell.

Now I'm jonesing for some trail time. Hurry up already NW Fest!

I'm with you on that!