Made it back home about 9:30 last night. The people were good the trails were tough and very little sleep was had.
The ORD crew ran Behind the Rocks with a group Fri. While the AZ crew did Pritchet. Everything went smooth and we all made it to the BBQ for some drinks and food. The raffle was fun Steve Fox got a bunch of greif for not being able to bring the UAV down.
Sat. the ORD crew ran Pritchet and Dirk led another group on cliffhanger. I think the AZ crew did Hells revenge.
Pritchet turned into the worst day as far as length of time on the trail and number of broken rigs and severity of breaks. We had about 15 rigs on the trail. Six of them broke, 1 broke twice. The worst breakage was Stephens blazer front axle tube twisting. We did some sientific winching and battery welding and got it back up and running in short order. The other stuff was broke front axle stuff and a couple of front drive shafts.
Sun. the Ord crew was on Upper Heldorado, Dirk led a group on Poison Spider to Golden spike/Goldbar rim. We saw Dirks group comng back into town at about 6:00 as we were leaving. It looked as though it was a good day with no major issues. The AZ. crew did something but I don't know what. Upper was great. We got Jasons (willyswanter) Crewcab long bed truck through with minor problems in the grand scheme of things. Sandman broke his front pinion on the water fall and that took saome extra help from a few nice J**ps that had driven around the top to watch. Once Sandman was out we made short work of winching all but one over the waterfall. I was able to drive the waterfall unassisted. That Kicked Ass...
Had a great time and hope to see picks soon. Thanks to all that came, huge thanks to all that donated, bigger thanks to Dean Bennet for driving a suburban that doubles as a parts store. With out Deans extreme amount of stuff we all would have suffered more on Pritchet.
The ORD crew ran Behind the Rocks with a group Fri. While the AZ crew did Pritchet. Everything went smooth and we all made it to the BBQ for some drinks and food. The raffle was fun Steve Fox got a bunch of greif for not being able to bring the UAV down.
Sat. the ORD crew ran Pritchet and Dirk led another group on cliffhanger. I think the AZ crew did Hells revenge.
Pritchet turned into the worst day as far as length of time on the trail and number of broken rigs and severity of breaks. We had about 15 rigs on the trail. Six of them broke, 1 broke twice. The worst breakage was Stephens blazer front axle tube twisting. We did some sientific winching and battery welding and got it back up and running in short order. The other stuff was broke front axle stuff and a couple of front drive shafts.
Sun. the Ord crew was on Upper Heldorado, Dirk led a group on Poison Spider to Golden spike/Goldbar rim. We saw Dirks group comng back into town at about 6:00 as we were leaving. It looked as though it was a good day with no major issues. The AZ. crew did something but I don't know what. Upper was great. We got Jasons (willyswanter) Crewcab long bed truck through with minor problems in the grand scheme of things. Sandman broke his front pinion on the water fall and that took saome extra help from a few nice J**ps that had driven around the top to watch. Once Sandman was out we made short work of winching all but one over the waterfall. I was able to drive the waterfall unassisted. That Kicked Ass...
Had a great time and hope to see picks soon. Thanks to all that came, huge thanks to all that donated, bigger thanks to Dean Bennet for driving a suburban that doubles as a parts store. With out Deans extreme amount of stuff we all would have suffered more on Pritchet.
