'84 K10 The Animal- Now on Forty Two's

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After our first day of riding the trail and knowing that the trail only gets more difficult after the committee crossing (3 miles ahead) we decided that committee would be a good spot to setup camp on night two. From there we could wheel up the more difficult terrain with less gear and then back down to committee where we would take rattle snake road out to the highway on day 3.

Here is a pic looking down winch hill 1, very tight with a good 6-7'+ wall to climb at the end.

packed up, on the WH1 bypass

another water crossing

 

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Day 2 continued

This hairpin right turn was a pretty cool obstacle, Dean modified his quarter going through the rocks and it took Zak some time to get through with spotters without damage.

I didn't have the same options with a longer wheel base but with a taller rocker height we decided the right habd buggy line was probably best. My first attempt I almost flopped, moved over more and got through.

 

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as we continued on we made it to committee crossing, ate lunch, dropped our camping gear and Nick decided to leave his yota at camp and jump in with Zak as the trail only got more difficult going toward WH3.

view from the river toward our campsite

 

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it was around 3pm IIRC when we left camp and headed up the trail with every intention to reach WH5, possibly Meadow lake however we knew we would be traveling back in the dark if we went that far.

you can see Dean here on the BYPASS for WH3. To the right of Dean is the hard line, it's beyond hard and so dug out that only very few long wheelbase buggies can get up it.

and Zak coming up the WH3 bypass

After a couple "fck yeahs" we moved on toward WH3B. Dean was leading at this point, I was following and Zak was the tail gunner when I heard a whistle which I knew was probably Zak because he wasn't on CB. I walked down and met Zak in the trail to find out that he snapped a "Y" TRE.

Without a spare on hand we had a educated group discussion and hatched a plan to remove the tapered shaft out of the TRE and replace it with a big ass 5/8" bolt I had. The Electrician in the group had a inverter and a corded 4" grinder so we used that to cut an "X" in the TRE cap before beating it out. The bolt was long so it required some washers, NP205 output nut as a spacer, some grease and a nylock nut. With the trail fix we decided to take it easy and cruise back to camp with Nick walking the whole trail spotting Zak so he didn't stress the joint while re-torquing it every couple hundred yards or so.

on the way back I found some rocks to flex on

as the sun went down and some clouds rolled in we made our way back across the river to camp.

and back at camp

 

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The next morning we packed up and headed out toward Fordyce lake which consisted of a 1/2 mile or so of trail that I ran several times on my last trip to fordyce lake. Once at Fordyce lake we have some light trail riding and then 30-40 minutes of forest road (Rattle Snake Road) which dumps us back at Cisco campground where Dean had his trailer and where Nick had his other truck to flat tow the Yota back home. Zak called ruffstuff and confirmed they had a Y TRE in stock however with his rig wounded and not safe for highway speeds the decision was made to trailer to ruffstuff and drive Deans K5. Dean pulled his slugs, aired up and we traveled the hour West to Ruffstuff.

A quick fix at ruffstuff and we all parted ways.

 

[530BLAZER]

Looks like a blast! Now I see why zak was loaded on a trailer in your album. Good write up.

 

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Amazingly enough I don't have much carnage to report. I only opened the hood to get my hot burritos off the engine I bumped a tree (driver fender) not paying attention when backing up and I hit the cab and bed on a rock. Also bent the front fender when I stuffed the drivers front tire coming down WH3. Need to open up the fender a little more. The bumpers, rock sliders, rock rings, diff covers, tie-rod all saw plenty of action. The exhaust fix worked great, the driveshaft never came in contact with it and when I wrapped the crossover my trans temp dropped 15 degrees traveling over he highway 80 summit The new rear driveshaft has a slight harmonic vibration at 65mph so I keep it at 60mph/2700rpms down the freeway.

All around it was a bad ass trip with some great friends and it was really nice having Dean to show us the way.

Next time we'll run straight into committee for a REVENGE run.

damage pics

 

[78K30]

Awesome trip thank you for the photos and good write-up! Terrain I can only hope to see someday

 

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Looks like a blast! Now I see why zak was loaded on a trailer in your album. Good write up.

You'd dig it for sure, next time you have to go with us.

 

[AgDieseler]

Great photos. Looks like a beautiful place to spend some time.

David

 

[max 02]

Wicked trail report!

 

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Great photos. Looks like a beautiful place to spend some time.

David

My new favorite trail hands down, keep it on your radar for future trips if you decide to come out west.

The timing of this trip was really good, the recent rains kept the dust to a minimum and we didn't see any mosquito's and very few meat bee's. It was cold at night, somewhere in the mid to low 30's if I had to guess but the daytime highs in the 60's was bitchin wheeling weather. Oh and we never saw another person or rig on the trail, simply impossible on other trails like the Rubicon even mid week.

Wicked trail report!

thank you.

 

[AgDieseler]

Oh and we never saw another person or rig on the trail

Sold.

David

 

[obijuank5]

What in the **** is a meat bee?

 

[nvrenuf]

Very good write up. I always love the Moab pics and write ups because the pics always have such crazy views from the top of cliffs for miles and miles, you can't help but be in awe of it all. That said, I have always thought that for actually wheeling (not site seeing) Fordyce looks like the most amazing place to go - rock, water crossings, etc all while still being surrounded by beautiful scenery (instead of looking like the barren surface of Mars) .

Doesn't Fordyce have the cool little single lane bridge over water?

 

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What in the **** is a meat bee?

yellow jackets. As soon as any meat leaves a cooler they're on you like white on rice and they're mean little fckers and bite.

Very good write up. I always love the Moab pics and write ups because the pics always have such crazy views from the top of cliffs for miles and miles, you can't help but be in awe of it all. That said, I have always thought that for actually wheeling (not site seeing) Fordyce looks like the most amazing place to go - rock, water crossings, etc all while still being surrounded by beautiful scenery (instead of looking like the barren surface of Mars) .

Doesn't Fordyce have the cool little single lane bridge over water?

I prefer the Sierra's over Moab but still like wheeling that Moab offers too.

The bridge you're thinking about might be one of the two on the Rubicon. Below is the narrower bridge near Rubicon Springs.

 

[nvrenuf]

That's the bridge I was thinking of, just looks like such a neat place.

 

[MTBLAZER89]

Awesome trip! I really need tpo get down there one of these years

 

[ekajkrats]

and Zak coming up the WH3 bypass

Maybe just because I'm a rookie, but that bypass looks like it needs a bypass!

 

[Fastereddie]

Awesomeness.