Colorado B.S. Thread

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/alaska/283431-june-2013-sutton-meet.html

 

Wow, such different kind of trails, looks like it was a blast! Thanks for the sweet pics!

 

There's parts comparable to back home but the mud is what differs. It's super thick, sticky and the dirt around it while even dry tends to sink.

The dirt is fine too so everything is dusty. There is parts of the trails that are rocky as well, but it's weird seeing everything so green unlike Colorado.

I wish we could have gone passed the area we could not get through, apparently there's a sweet waterfall a few more miles up. The ATVs and side-by-sides even had a heck of time getting through that area.

 

Oh I was

Name of the game

Kept her on trail


Edit: I see no trees

 

Yea just some grass

 

No problem, it's was a fun day and I got to use my sliders on that leg of the trail!!! Ill buff my CO pin stripes out till the next run and do it all again, no biggie

Good to finally meet you yesterday

 

You too Phil! Your truck looked great. As a matter of fact, everyone's trucks looked great. We were a pretty formidable group.

 

This weekend was a fun trip. I hope everyone had fun, 13? trucks was a very large group and I think we did very well considering the lack of communication (CB) and not knowing the trail well or at all. I'm going to try to find an external antenna for my handheld so at least I could loan it out. Right now it only works as a spotting tool (that we didn't need) because you can't listen/trasmit from inside a vehicle very well (faraday cage).

So my winch quit this weekend. I can't belive on such a light pull it would just give up. It is a warn 9.5 xp. I did some electrical tests today and it seems all of my solenoids are passing voltage when energized. I was thinking they had high resistance because when it 1st quit the motor would groan. I'm going to work at getting the winch out of the ABR today, I hope I don't have to pull the bumper. Some research online has indicated these might have motor issues. I guess I could just hope for a stuck brush or some other easy fix.

And for my epic failure, I don't have any pictures. I need a camera that is not my phone. I'm not sure if I should just go for a point and shoot or go SLR. I should just get my 35mm back out and shoot some black and whites, build a dark room in my crawl space and go old school.

 

Anyone have an Oem third brake light cover they wanna sell?

 

that sucks man!!! at least you were able to get DH back on trail, I would get a small point and shoot. I took a canon powershot only on my honeymoon and got some great photos, with good DOF as well. the DSLR's are great but get pricey quick.

On a side note, once i get that front skid installed can i have you grease up the cam bolts and possibly do an alignment if needed with that addition of weight? I think thats what eric said needed done once i put that skid on, my short term memory sucks

 

You mean the one in the photos below where my 'HTC EVO GoPro' is on the custom articulating mount out the window?

Video soon to be posted.

Yeah, traffic sucked a little bit. We met up with my buddy for some Twin Peaks though so that helped to ease the pain of the traffic.

The funny part is that we ended up in the front somehow and since we didn't come up the same trail you guys did I we weren't really sure which way to go back down. I called out on the CB & I thought someone (CoTacoTRD?) said to go straight so that's the way we went but the signal broke up a little but so maybe they didn't. Either way, that was a pretty fun segment. Not every day you get to drive DOWN a stream.

 

Here's that stream crossing/driving video. It's about 5min long and for those at work I think there's an F bomb dropped around the 3:20 mark (Travis! ) so mute the sound at that point. The rest is just game changing play-by-play from Team RamRod!

[Picasa link removed]

Edit: Having a hard time embedding at the forum software doesn't want to play nice with Picasa hosted video.


Here's the YouTube hosted video that should embed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxIEpYn9eOc

 

I'll just upload it to YouTube and embed. Standby.

Edit: YouTube successfully embedded above so here's a few pics I took too:

(these first three are three panos I did of the same area standing in place to give you an idea what the view was like at that point)

 

Turned the AC off and the same warm air was still flowing out.

Checked the in cab filter. No rat shit, but a lot of leaves and other junk in there. cleaned it out the best I could. We'll see if that helps at all.

 

*gasp* Travis...how could you?

 

HAH AHA H, yeah going down the stream was the way we came up, the really really tight trees just above where we stopped to let the 13 rising sun team pass was where the trail was different from the way up, its all good. i really need to get a CB, noah didnt like us to much, he never talked to us on channel 14 on the walkies

 

Here's one from our 'work space' even though the auto-stitch was a little bit shaky you still get an idea:

 

Video and pictures above for those that missed it since I edited threads to add them.

What a potty mouth!!

 

These are from the old mill/mine we stopped at while the other part of the group was trying to fall off of a shelf road covered in snow.