[img]Friday night was one of those lazy spring evenings that make a person kind of antzy to go do something but too lazy to actually do it. I was sitting out on the front porch watching the JennaJ pull weeds when I hear the unmistakable sound of a built V8 in the distance getting closer....make that two V8's...no...what the hell...sound like a whole pack of em'. About then five jeeps ranging from bright yellow flatties to a purple CJ5 come around into view. As they turn the corner toward my house everybody lays on their novelty horns. I heard everything from La Cucaracha to Eye of the Tiger. I think one might have even sounded like a pig squeeling. It was my Brother in Law's and crew heading up to the cabin for the weekend. Each rig had a sober driver, but the passengers were well on their way to a good time! After BS'ing with them for a while and having a few whisky's I decided that going up that night probably wasn't a good idea, but I sure as hell was going in the morning! After a call to BenW the trip was set. We met the next morning at Nasty Crick and made the short trip into the cabin.
We were met by Aub and the rest off the crew and then some. There was about 12 jeeps in all. After a few introductions and some good natured sh*t talking we were off.



We ran into snow about halfway to the top of the ridge above South Fork (Cowiche.) A few of the jeeps were set up pretty good but the ones that weren't took a while to get them to the top.

Diddy's jeep is frkn' killer but it just wasn't his day. High horse, tall stall, and soft spring snow aren't a good combo (unless you're PUO or Pun ) I would love to have this jeep though. The thing is wicked fast!



Putt Putt showing us how he never gets stuck



One of the last ones through was Charlie. He's an OJF that knows his way around a jeep but was plagued by ARB problems in the front that may have led to this predicament.



It doesn't look like much but in the pic I already have him sucked back down on the diver's side, but He was about ready to go over. I jammed up there and jumped out. "Charlie, don"t move I'm gonna get a cable on ya!" "Where in tha' f*ck do you think I'm gonna go?" "Good Point."
That's Charlie for ya. Quick with a joke, even under pressure.



At the top the group decided to head down, so BenW and I decided to try and see how far into the Strobach trail that we could get.



The first obastacle was this off camber section. Ben definetly picked a better line than I did!



The weather was great at first with the exception of some brisk wind.



Next up was the first rocky hill. A non issue in the summer....a bit harder with snow on it. Ben had a way of making it look easy, though. That jeep is solid and gets around effortless in the snow. I may even have to stop making fun of his Crawlers









After that we headed on down the trail, into the trees. It didn't take long for me to find a sink hole under a fallen tree. This one will get cut out after the snow melts.





BenW making it look easy...again. I just wanted to show him what NOT to do






Payback



He ended up losing a bead on this one. With a little winch action to lift the jeep and a shot of Co2 it was back in business.

With a storm heading in we decided to head back to the cabin.





Ben got personal with a tree on the way out! Oh well, windshields suck anyways.



We stopped by the cabin on the way out for some dinner and a few laughs. My gut still hurts from listening to these guys. BenW probably was having "Deliverance" flashbacks After a while Diddy thought it would be funny to climb a tree with my jeep. Don't have a cow, greenies. This was on Private Property with the owner present. My jeep sustained more damage than that tree!






OOPS! Good thing for him that I like his sister!





After that I decided it was probably time to call it quits and head for the trailers. Harry Henderson agreed.[/img]

Nice write up!

Sweet run, how'd your jeep fair?