Colorado Trip Reports

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thanks Travis for this thread

Here are some more Pictures of the Sevenmile course could resist to go out there again today

 

Nice pictures thanks for posting

 

Sorry Joey, I forgot to post these earlier.
Joey on some rocks on Sevenmile

 

few of us got out yesterday to test out our new setups

went down to metberry gulch to stay away from the snow and explore some mild trails

airing down


trailhead


jim coming through the bypass




reward at the end


jace coming up the alternative rock slab route


jim 2-wheelin




eric up the alt. route with a cheering section


brian making his way


eric doing his best to lift a tire


another run optional obstacle (pics of of us going down are somewhere too)

eric flexing out his duratracs


stuff


tire eating


gramp's turn


steeeretching out


and the other side


jace trying out another line


gobble gobble says the tire


some video i got coming down the slab

jace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV0GRyNnemw&feature=share&list=UUmu8MY3icgnVUSoOLnYK8rQ

eric
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RYgRLg5Dyc&feature=share&list=UUmu8MY3icgnVUSoOLnYK8rQ

and eric
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b38nay6q4W8&feature=share&list=UUmu8MY3icgnVUSoOLnYK8rQ

 

Wish I would have known there was a trail run

 

it was an impromptu run to test out new stuff

 

Hey Bob thanks posting up. I didn't even know that you took video. I am gonna have to learn how to use your camera so we get more shots of your truck.

Ben - Sorry man. We anticipated that Bob and I would have to be stopping to do some trimming of make adjustments. So we kept this one word of mouth so as to not hold everyone up. Turns out our shit worked almost flawlessly.

 

yea i'm hoping charlie will post up his pics...he should have more of us crossing that dry creek bed area and pics of my truck

 

Me too

Looks like fun! I need to get a run in to shake down my recent mods as well.

 

I'm going to be making my final tweaks next week and hopefully throw the new tires on asap once they show up on my doorstep. C'mon Treadwright! Hurry Up!

Probably end up making a run up something close the weekend of the 18th and/or 25th to make sure everything is good to go for Moab.

 

X3 maybe next time.

I posted about going to seven mile again and it was great. Its getting more washed out and getting more difficult so it was really fun to get up there to see it again. I went alone but got to put the locker through the test and found it working great. got to help out a stuck Jeep which always feels good. Went up a hill that stopped another Jeep and when I got back his little girl said I like toyotas with dogs (I brought the pups). Her dad just shook his head while I smiled.

Eric-why are your shocks mounted like that? Is that the way those particular shocks are supposed to go in? Preference? Does it keep the shock safer from damage? I always thought that the shock is more stable and less likely to get jammed up with the body tube above.

 

I was wondering that as well.

 

Factory bilstein shocks are mounted with the shock body on bottom as well.

 

few more i took with my phone from sunday

 

Yeah factory is eye to stud on top. Stability I don't know about but there is thought that having the body up high protects it from damage. But I haven't seen proof of either way being an issue. The mounts are so close to the tire that it would really be an odd rock to damage the tube.

 

Slick Jace! Ragging on the 2nd Gen's while I got my back turned to you. (36 seconds)
You better watch your back mister!

 

An attempt to find dirt yesterday lead to a successful trip of finding snow in the Idaho Springs area. Austin and myself tried to run Bill Moore, then Cumberland Gulch to Yankee Hill yesterday, both with similar results. About 10.1K was the highest we could get. Gonna be a few weeks still . . .

 

going to be a late start to the wheeling season again...

more reason to come to moab in two weeks