Pickle Gulch 6/12

[kkxj]

Made it back alright. Thanks for all the help. It was nice meeting all of you. Must be a bad fan motor, fuse was blown, hardwired fan to battery and nothing.

[dieseldoc]

sounds like a bad can to me.
Glad you got home.
Nice to met you.
Hope you get the fan fixed soon so you can get out for the next run.

[Rover Guy]

Thank you all for a wonderful day on the trail at pickle Gulch. You all made our first excursion a day to remember. Can't wait to see the pics, and looking forward to the next run. Special thanks to Jamie and Carolee for hosting breakfast.

[dieseldoc]

Run report to come!

[Justin.K]

This was a blast and a great day overall!

Special Thanks
I wanted to give a special thanks to JamieCaroleeXJ for his hospitality!
Thanks to dieseldoc for the help with my 4wd linkage!
SynergyXJ pretty sure he was trying to ditch me, kept up anyway

I have a few pictures and some video coming soon, i wanted to ask if you were on this trail to please upload it somewhere and let me know where to grab it so that i can add it to the video.

Looking forward to seeing you all on the next one!

[jayson44]

I saw you guys heading to the trail on our way to church. how was the snow at the top? did you make it all the way through?

J.

[dieseldoc]

offical thered will have the pics

[dieseldoc]

Sunday the 12th was a good run.

First off thanks to Jamie and Corlee for hosting and for feeding us all.
Love the new house!


So we started a bit late as we were waiting for Sean (coleman) he was running just a little late.
Sorry Louis (78bj40) you should have come by I think there would have been enough room to park on the road by there house.

We had a good sized group, with a nice mix Jeep product (TJ, Jk, and XJ) a disco 1 and a Chevy S10 XR2
We picked up a 4runner and Louis in his BJ40 at the trail head
WE had a good sized group.
Evan was in the lead as Jamie and Caorlee brought there Youngster in her Xj they wanted to be mid group with her.
We all started off and hit the mud pit at the start.
We had issues right off the bat!
The chevy( Smittys10) has shift issues! The vac shift CAD stuff would make the shift thus stuck!
Backed him out and the rig a TJ ( JustinK ) had shift issues as well.
So Scrapy( Gary) and I stayed to mend these rigs.
The Tj ( justineK) had just done exhaust work and managed to pull the shift pin for the T-case apart.
The S10 ( smittys10 ) had to do a bit more to get under way. He pulled the shifter thing apart and manualy shifted it, this got him 4X but no locker in the rear.
Off we want up trail managed to get every one up to the first big rock climb well got to the top.
Evan ( synergyXJ ) was there to find us, as the main group had made it to the first meadow before they decided to send someone back for us.
Seems my CB it not getting good range! needs some tuning.
Off to the first meadow.
At this point is where we lost a few rigs.
the S10 ( smittyS10 ) and an XJ (KKXJ ) the S10 called it ad day to go deal with his CAD issues and Kaelan had a cooling fan issue, his electric fan seems to have failed.

After seening folks down trail to deal with repairs at home we made it up to the secound meadow with no issues and in short order.
the rest of the group was up there playing in the pit that has a foot or so deep water in the bottom.
most of us splashed around and had fun, all but the the 2 Toyota's.
we took off up trail to the green shed.
This is where things got interesting!
A fallen tree had made a low bridge!
This stopped Louis as it was 2" to low for his BJ40.
the Rover car would lose 8" at this thing!

We spent an hour here to do some trail side engineering.
tree saver at about 15' from the ground ( Evan, Galia, an Louis did some tree climbing) after a few tries and a few different rigging positions we got movement.
This thing was heavy, the BJ needed some extra pounds to make it go, so 2 TJ's hooked to it to keep it from moving.
An 8 foot log staked on a base for a flat surface we got enough height to clear the Rover car by 8" or so.
I know their is a ton of Video of this running around!

Some mud splashing on the way to the Green shed, a bit of roundy round play more splashing and some snow stuck moments we all hung out and chated for a few.
As it 2 at this point we had a few head home as they had time issues.
on up to the top the rest of us want.
Gary pun off in the deep drift on the switch back on the back side.
Encountering some deep snow on the road Evan decided it was A bit risky so backing uo we tried a few spurs with no clear path.
down trail we want.
we stopped to mend the roof rack on the rover car.
this was a good place for lunch. At least for Therese, myself, Louis, Daryle and his kids.
the rest continued down hill tell they reached the spot that the map Sean had shows jeeps stopping.
I guess Sean had a tipy moment on a tree....maybe there are some pics of this?
Sean has some Colorado pin stripes on his jeep now!

After every one returned from there excursion down hill, we discussed continuing on.
But as it was now after 4pm and a sunday it was time to head back to the trail head.

Therese was driving from the spot we had to back up, she she got a lot of down hill tie and some good wheel time!
After airing up and packing up every one said good bye and left in all our own different directions.
Louis fallowed us down Golden Gate canyon to avoid the sunday gambling traffic.
Hope the Canyon was a good drive for you Louis.

now for the all important pics.

[dieseldoc]

more pics

[78bj40]

Nicely done Brandon. Good day for sure and great group of wheelers. Awesome teamwork guys, I appreciate the hard work! Now we learned a good lesson, carry a chainsaw at all time. Btw that canyon comming down is not something you want to drive with trailer!! although is was fun.


Here is the link to my photos, videos to come

http://s284.photobucket.com/user/dyn...?sort=3&page=1

[kkxj]

I suppose there isn't a way to delete this thread and move it over to the other one, didn't mean to take over like that. Should have named it something different. Sweet pics btw.

[Jim]

Whoever starts the run report starts it - no "formal process" - just get it done.

I merged the other thread into this thread as it seemed most appropriate.

[78bj40]

More photos

[Justin.K]

I put together a small video from the cameras we had mounted. check it out here.
https://youtu.be/Fvu2svBFxRw

[dieseldoc]

Nkce!
Here http://http://m.quadratec.com/produc...pid=52207+0007is a link for,you shifter fix:

[moose]

Looked like a great run indeed!!! Ohh, the mud...

[dieseldoc]

Ya you missed a good time.
I hope someone post video of the tree lift excersize!

[Max]

I see some great places in those pictures for a summer anniversary run!

[Rover Guy]

Does anyone have a good pic of the Rover in action, so I can ditch the driveway photo?

[dieseldoc]

I bet there is some pics from the mud hope.