The Epic WY/MT/CO Adventure!!

2wd? NO lol you'll need 4 lo..unless you plan on swapping out your silly electric T case for a twin stick FJ case for 2wd lo..haha was to steep for 2 hi..might not be a huge issue for autos..but manual..no way.

4wd will be also very important cause the ground every is super rocky in a gravely way..

See in Wy there are 3 types of surfaces to drive on

1) Soft powdery dusty dirt. Like at the base. Its everywhere. Turns to SSSHHHIIIIIITTTT when it gets wet.

2)Soft sandstone "rock"/ betonite soaked dirt. Breaks if you hit a slider or skid..doesn't cause a lot of damage. Bentonite turns to SHHHHIIITTTTTTTT when it gets wet. I call it super glue mud. It won't come off for ever unless you wash it off within 15 mins of it getting on

3)Granitie rock. This..is NOT like slick rock or really anything. You remember the very very begining of Elephant hill? think that. The ocastional ledges and very large rocks...but most a TON of smaller boulders or just gravel mixed with the soft powder.

Traction will be a bitch on some of the corners. A lot of them it won't be.

Im not doing 2wd though..


but you could get they im pretty sure win just 2wd..road to the switch backs is real easy.

Sunday actually id think.

 

Nice description of the surfaces to drive on here Monte! My job has a geology back-end and I spend a fair amount of time out in the field working with the drill rigs and our wireline trucks, my favorite, our PFN(promt fission neutron) probe truck Creating small scale fission downhole never gets old! The nerd in me always gets giddy when we ramp the voltage to the tool downhole

Anyways, the geologic units out here are lots of arkosic sandstone (stuff broken down from the granite mountain ranges here, Rattlesnakes, Wind rivers, big horns, blah blah) and volcanic ash and units related to it like bentonite (which absorbes a retarded amount of water per its molecular weight, slipperiest sh*! i know of which is one reason we use it as drilling mud...) and then the bigger chunks and outcrops of the granite itself wherever you find it, obviously most prevalent when you're in the hills and the steep trails. No good old dirt mud here, just straight GREASE lol.

Sorry for the BS.

Side note, I was at CBI off road yesterday picking up my sliders. Kick ass shop and group of guys. They have a bunch of tacoma stuff in stock too! I will be going back, hopefully soon, for some bumpers

Here's to summer getting here faster!

~M

 

glad you hear you got your sliders man!


and yes..mud here..slick as shit! and is seriously like superglue..

Jon and i regretted this SO much




Think i spent 5-8 bucks washing it off and he spent 10 or more...and wasn't even close to being clean. Was a fun trip though.

 

yep. Was our first attempt at doing the lander trails. Sadly for us we picked a weekend where it decided to rain from thursday to monday..strait..Wy can't take that kinda water..and it meant snow up top on the mountains. So we went to a different area a local guy showed us..WOW slick..i didn't even have to steer though cause Jon was cutting such big deep trenches in the road my little tires just followed it perfectly. It was freaking so nastly.

still fun...just one of those thing when your done your like...damn it..why did we do that again?? lol

 

^ lol! I have cloths with bentonite still on it and forget about my work boots..., that looks like a pain in the ASS! It's inevitable out here though, i'm just not going to go search it out

Yea, got the sliders! just need to clean prime and paint and have my buddy stop by and weld em up! He was an intern with us last year and is at school in Laramie atm, cool guy, names Brooks if you've run accross him tell him Marc says hi lol, it'l freak him out. Don't think there are too many brooks' down there...?

 

It was..but still a good time.

funny..


Jon and i in 2011



and in 2012...lol



same trucks! ha!


and nice man! they will come in handy no doubt!

And brooks..hmmm..well im not in laramie..but if he drives a Tacoma..he can hang out haha

 

no tacoma he built up a 79 chevy stepside this summer, not gonna lie its a beast, too big for me and most trails i've seen.

haha, not sure why i thought you were in Laramie. Extrapolated that one I guess.

 

no worries probably cause i said iwas in college. Im in Powell. though.

yea much of guys here with truck like that too. Just too big.

 

Haha, I call em T-Rods here. Those pretty street queens jacked up all brand new off the lot with 5 inch exhaust blowin black clouds that probably cost 5 buck per cloud... They do sound kinda cool but it all seems like such a flippn waste...

 

yea it is lol

not worth it ha i love it cause they always are like "yea well i can tow more" or "im more powerful"

im just like okay..well ill give you 50 bucks if you can keep up with me and follow me..


haven't payed a person yet..

 

yea..on a hwy...

you would follow me on many a place Lisa

 

thats the point

i never said faster..

 

this looks cool..though idk if time will allow..

http://www.backcountrydiscoveryroutes.com/COBDR

im tempted to do it on the way back.

 

Traction was more what I was curious about. I have an LSD that may help if its not way too slick and I have 2Lo as well. I have a switch that bypasses the ADD

And I bet I can go faster than you...

And follow Monte right up until I have to break trail for him, then he'll have to try to keep following me

I just can't sleep in style like you guys

 

break trail for me?? pfffff.

we shall see with your fat as truck haha..speaking of which..remind me to meassure how wide my stance is..

and you have lsd?? what? didn't you get rid of that by putting a locker in it??..

 

Your stance is wider than mine. Haha. You rubbed though the gap on elephant hill and I wasn't even close. My 2nd gen really isn't that much bigger than a first, it just looks a lot bigger.

Came factory with the rear locker and it is E-LSD also know as ATRAC. I know people bash it but it actually works alright. Just not nearly as good as a locker. LSD won't affect my steering like a locker will though.

 

ahhh gotcha. Interesting.

my dads i think is mechanical..but im not sure on that..

and true..But length wise..you got me beat..which on Christina lake i know will be an issue..not sure about the others..i mean other the Morrison a bit but not that much on there id think.