Chick run at RC on 4-28

Saturday started off as a beautiful day. Andrea and I got to the Goose at 7:15 to find Partty and Veronica were already in the parking lot waiting. We decided to go into the Goose and have some coffee. At 8:00 we went over to the Shell gas staion and fill up. There we found Susan, gassing up El Toro. She said Chris was over at Mcee D's grabbing some gurb. A few minutes later, and our group was on its way to RC. When we got there the parking lot was packed. There must have been atleast 60+ rigs in the staging area. Which is alittle bigger then normal. We all checked in, started taking the tops off and airing down the tires.

We then preceded to head out taking lower 3. Man did they do a job clearing the hill side. It is barren to say the least. We headed to the new hill climbs across from 1. We started up the first hill. Andrea and I first, then Susan to follow. Everyone made up and over the first hill. Patty and veronice setup to go over the secong hill. They made a great attempt. As they went to crest over the top, gravity took over and they started spinning. Veronica got off the gas and decided to let the jeep coast back down the hill, to try again. Only as she was coasting back down she got caught on a stump by the TC skid. It was pretty funny as she looked at me and said " im not on the brake or the gas and i cant go anywhere". After looking at the situation and laughing on how she got stuck goin back down the hill. We decided to just throw a strap on her and pull her over the hill. Next up was Susan in El Toro. She lined up for the run. This is where things get interesting. It seems El Toror has a supercharger on it. So when she hit the gas things happened quickly. She approached the hill, and the front end came off a little hump before the hill. When this happened it sent the front end straight into the hillside where it contacted with a rock. WHich sent her off in to a tree to the right of the hill. After checking on Susan, her daughter and her friend. We checked the jeep for damage. We found that the hood latches had broke and for some reason the fan was contacting the fan shroud. After cutting away the affending plastic we closed the hood. We had decided to get the jeep over the hill and fix the rest. Once it was on top of the hill. We tried to secure the hood for the rest of the trip. This then brought to our attention that the impact was more severe. Upon closer inspection we found that the impact had caused one of the crumple zones to collaspe and the front frame was now tweaked. Susan in good fashion decided to just continue on.

We headed over to the west property to have some fun on the blue trails. We decided to drop into the west property by taking the power line trail. Along the way there are some dirt hill climbs built into the bank. We stopeed and played on these for awhile. Once on the west property we headed over to trail 12. We made short work of this trail and decided along the way to stop and have lunch. We crossed over F to the higher section of 12. There we found a rock to play around and show off some flex or three wheeling. After 12 we went over to 14. Here Andrea took over our rig and patty was driving as well as Chris's wife. Our little party made quick work of that trail and all the ladies had huge smiles on there faces. From 14 we went west on trail 11 to trail 19. We did the upper hillside part of 19. The ladies did a excellent job of navigating this trail. Then we continued west on trail 11. We came across the split for 11b and took that up the hillside to trail 18. This is a blue trail with a nice table top to transverse and a black rock garden to play in. It was decided that the rock garden was out but all were up for the table top. We headed down to the table top and as we were getting ready to go over it. Susan called on the cb and said that her rig was over heating. we stopped and accessed the damage. Once the rad. was cool we added some water. There seemed to be a small cut in the hose going into the intercooler. Once there was sufficent water we took off again. Everyone made it over the table top without issue. Veronica was first and did a excellent job navigating over it. next was Chris he to made it without issue. Once we were done with that we headed out of 18 back to H it was getting late and Susan's rig was having overheating issues. Chris had said earlier in the day that he wanted to run the pole line climbs by 5. So we headed over there to let him play. He made several excellent attampts. But in the end the last part is so severly dug out that is was making it extremely hard to get over. Chris decided that it was enough for the day so i threw the strap on him and yanked him over. We all headed back to the staging area. Everyone with huge smiles on there faces (even Susan who had the worst luck of the day). Once there we aired up put the tops back on and said our good byes. All in all it was a great day wheeling with great people. What could be better? I have to say as a whole we have a great group of members and i enjoy every trip that I run with MRR4x4C. Here is the link to the pics

http://picasaweb.google.com/xtrmrokkrawlr/RC428

Agreed..it was an absolutely beautiful day! We all had smiles on our faces the whole time. But Rich did leave out one very funny part....ask him about his ripped pants (in a revealing spot), the zip ties (he matched his fender flare), and the electricial tape. I have some videos to add to Rich's pics and one is Susan aka El Toro on "that hill". I'll try to get them posted soon.

as much as I was running into people all over the trails. I am supprized I didn't run into you guys. But we spent the a.m. on south property and the p.m. on the east and west on sunday. sounds like you guys had a good time. Out of the three jeeps we had with us we had one run away jeep that ran into another jeep, one near roll over into the deep pits at the beginig of the new trail number one (only thing that kept it from going into the hole was a tree agaist the soft top). 1 broken rear driveshaft, 2 fenders, 2 bent leaf springs, and 1 front pinion. I'll post some pics when I get them

sounds like you had a eventful time also....

Alright I knew bringing Tammy and letting her drive was a bad idea. As of 11 pm Monday night we traded in the two month old Tuson for a 06 Solar Yellow TJ. Gotta love the last day of the month deals.


LET THE MODS BEGIN

(I told her I was going to steal parts when mine breaks.)

Yeah!! Solar yellow is rockin with black trim and all the other goodies.

got the pics, a couple vids
http://picasaweb.google.com/rockdw72/RC428And42807

Nice pics and vids matt! Looked like a great time - made me wanna hop in the rig and go wheeling right now!

Ok, finally here are some pics. Having trouble adding the video. I'll post them when I get it figured out.

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http://picasaweb.google.com/vegrover/ChicRun42807

Great pics. Thanks for posting them.