Saturday's "Mostly rover" group
Charles Galpin - '94 D90 on 33's
Jason Lavender ' - 94 D90 on 33's, guest
Jeff Huff - 94 'D90 on 34s
Preston Crum - YJ on 36s?
Kevin Patterson - MJ on 35s?,
It was an awesome day of wheeling as usual, but I hope I haven't left out too many details as my memory is shot.
Our group was nice and small and well suited for the tails we picked so we covered a lot of ground. We did trickle and wahoo as a warmup and then stopped at the bottom of corum for lunch. A large tree had fallen across the trail which made for a nice table, but we had to navigate around it to continue on. We made it up corum with a little spotting here and there, and I forget why but Jeff had to pull cable at some point when he got high centered. We saw Chip's group at the top and then Scott's group caught up from behind us and it got a bit congested for a while up top. I think Kevin rubbed his left rear on a tree as well, but otherwise no problems. I wanted to go up cobra for a change since we always seem to go down it after corum so we took winch only down, and then came back up cobra. We decided we had time to go do v trail, so took upper to u-turn hard and took that down, and passed Scott's group again coming up. We ran over to v-trail and went up. About half way up Kevin reported something was wrong with a shock and waited for us to come back out. I did the loop and as I was about to drop in to the final decent with the others half way up the loop , Preston radio'd that he wanted to take the blue loop back so I turned around and we took it. There is a relatively steep hill with a clay surface and lots of leaves and I took one attempt and slid back down and decided it wasn't worth trying again as it was beginning to get dark. Oh right before the hill I hit a sharp rock or stump and lost some air in my right front tire - which ended up being the reason I lost a bead on Sunday. I should have checked the air pressure and added some! So we worked our way back over onto v-trail and took it back down, picked up Kevin and high tailed to back to camp for steak and beer!
charles
Charles Galpin - '94 D90 on 33's
Jason Lavender ' - 94 D90 on 33's, guest
Jeff Huff - 94 'D90 on 34s
Preston Crum - YJ on 36s?
Kevin Patterson - MJ on 35s?,
It was an awesome day of wheeling as usual, but I hope I haven't left out too many details as my memory is shot.
Our group was nice and small and well suited for the tails we picked so we covered a lot of ground. We did trickle and wahoo as a warmup and then stopped at the bottom of corum for lunch. A large tree had fallen across the trail which made for a nice table, but we had to navigate around it to continue on. We made it up corum with a little spotting here and there, and I forget why but Jeff had to pull cable at some point when he got high centered. We saw Chip's group at the top and then Scott's group caught up from behind us and it got a bit congested for a while up top. I think Kevin rubbed his left rear on a tree as well, but otherwise no problems. I wanted to go up cobra for a change since we always seem to go down it after corum so we took winch only down, and then came back up cobra. We decided we had time to go do v trail, so took upper to u-turn hard and took that down, and passed Scott's group again coming up. We ran over to v-trail and went up. About half way up Kevin reported something was wrong with a shock and waited for us to come back out. I did the loop and as I was about to drop in to the final decent with the others half way up the loop , Preston radio'd that he wanted to take the blue loop back so I turned around and we took it. There is a relatively steep hill with a clay surface and lots of leaves and I took one attempt and slid back down and decided it wasn't worth trying again as it was beginning to get dark. Oh right before the hill I hit a sharp rock or stump and lost some air in my right front tire - which ended up being the reason I lost a bead on Sunday. I should have checked the air pressure and added some! So we worked our way back over onto v-trail and took it back down, picked up Kevin and high tailed to back to camp for steak and beer!
charles