Bigdogs Awesome trail ride for June 6,7, and 8th, 2008

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That's how our camp was saturday night - kudos to those who dealt with our noise!!!

Here are the few pics I took. The last thumbnail of the album is a video of the hill climb out of the gulch. I really liked that trail, however, with a group of rigs it would take ALLLLL day.

Joe, the video of you coming up squeler is there too - that rig is badass!! It's the 5th thumbnail but the quality was really hacked by picasa.

http://picasaweb.google.com/njf128/BigDogs_06_68_08/

Thanks Nick, great pictures. Man you guys had agreat time out there.

im beat! 5pm and i was still dragging my pile off the mountain. 103 degrees as well bleh! best weekend ever.

It's amazing that your statement was followed by best weekend ever hahaha, there's something wrong with us! Did you run insanity w/Grason? I'm interested to see how that went.

we didn't do a whole lot of wheeling but I still had a great time. thanks everyone for letting me mooch food.

Friday was a good day of wheeling for the most part, hit some moderate stuff here and there but nothing like I wanted to. Probably a good thing since discovering that the rear locker wasn't working. Just made up for it with 2nd gear and a little more throttle. Pulled the third member in the rear and found the seal on the ARB was broken and could not be repaired. stuck it back together and ran without the rear locker. Since I modified the switches I could still engage the front locker. ran squeeler on saturday going uphill. that was a blast, quite a challenge without the rear locker. We ran a few other things and hit camp for lunch, then went to the lake beach for a few hours. A couple of us went out that evening but I opted to take it easy and chill at camp. Saturday night was awesome, I won't speak about it but if you didn't go I'll say it again SUCKS TO BE YOU! Sunday I left after breakfast and left Matt and Nick to wheel by themselves. Time for some repairs. I did find new seals through Marlin Crawler.com a toyota site that had the parts in stock. A lot of the parts in my rear arb are common to other arb lockers including the seals. I did order an extra set just in case and picked up a new copper tube and housing assembly since they are common to fail as well. Time to get Elva's jeep done.

Gotta get that thing done so she can blast that mud pit at Big Dogs!!!

I'm gonna go there and order some too. It was a bad weekend for ARBs (shut up Nester)! Matt's air line melted but luckily I had spare line and the compression fitting and Matt was good to go again.

I set the trip meter at the start of the event and ended with about 35 miles!

oh yeah I forgot and nobody else has mentioned it. congrats to von for winning $1000 gift cert. for making it though the mud pit. nick also won something in the raffle but not worth mentioning.

Yah, he definetley deserved it after the Icebreaker the other year!!!

And this 2 different thread thing is f'ing stupid!!

palace of love at least not this weekened. I'm still getting yelled at for the hookers that matt found and tried to take back to the palace As already stated before if you weren't there it sucked to be you. Sept will be the huge event, put it on your calanders to be their or be

That was a laugh out loud to it's truest form!!!! That is fricken hilarious. Damn you Matt, look what you did!!

I still have a visual of Joe sleeping in DD's cage!!!

I just started laughing here at work, and everyone was like WTF are you laughing at. I am just mad I missed the girls at the bon fire.

I missed the evening event on saturday. After a few went to the bonfire I was really feeling dizzy, uncordinated, clumsy, and blurred vision. I think it was something I had with dinner. I walked it off for about an hour with help and then was feeling better, took a nap until about 8 the next morning. missed a lot of the bonfire stuff but if I went I don't think I would have remembered. I'm sure pics will show up somewhere.

i had a blast , clayton offroad is suppose to mail me the gc. this week . but smokin joe taped over the mud pit scene on his video camera. i am going to look on youtube for one, then post it. again it was assume assume assume

Locked_N_Loaded wrote:

It's amazing that your statement was followed by best weekend ever hahaha, there's something wrong with us! Did you run insanity w/Grason? I'm interested to see how that went.

shane was with us but bypassed insanity, the rest of us ran it and had a blast, that trail is sweet as shit. this weekend i learned that the yj can take a beating beacuse i gave it absolute hell and nothing broke.










the rest of the pics

https://s239.photobucket.com/albums/ff273/pjgruen/big%20dogs%20spring%20fling%2008/

Damn dude sweet pics. I would LOVE to run that trail! Would it be a winch fest?! Honest opinion, you won't hurt my feelings I just want to know if it's worth a try. It looks ok but photos never do anything justice and I didn't look close enough at it in person.

If some one took the time to write a story out of this, I can forward it to the UFWD and the Mid-Atlantic FWD associations for publication print I will use some of the pics that would complement the story, yet keep it within the thread lightly ruling. Thanks and I hope it's well writen

Yea i bypassed insanity. If my brakes worked and i didnt have a shortened hydro line im positive i could have done insanity but i just went and watched. On the way out of there we broke my hydro line and had to be towed out.

Grason's near flop was awesome to watch, his dad's face was classic

The Devil Dog wrote:

If some one took the time to write a story out of this, I can forward it to the UFWD and the Mid-Atlantic FWD associations for publication print I will use some of the pics that would complement the story, yet keep it within the thread lightly ruling. Thanks and I hope it's well writen

Here are the pictures I have from the week end, they kind of tell a story too

Hahaha, you shit, I was going to send you a message and ask where are the pic's then I realized you ment the emotion characters. Funny......I need stories of our adventures, to get published on the Voice with some good pics. seriously. Plus I as need similar ones for the MAFWDA web too.

In order to maintain the pristine reputation of the club I plead the 5th. To all that went I truly had a good time. oh yeah and the trial riding was pretty good too! We should all get in Greg Bradys line next time and then let him go down one of the trails and then head to the other side of the park. I'll get my pos fixed for the next trip so we can bust it up on the harder trails. I missed pennsytuckians trail and the gulch this time around. Next trip I'll get to them. I bought an extra set of o rings just in case.

x2 on the 5th. What makes it such a great time is the people and the personalities. Trust me when I say most of the fun parts would not be making it to print because they were non wheeling related. maybe for sept when everybodys rig is in little better condition we'll make sure we get some sort of story together with pics.