Fall Colors Run, Greenwater FS road 72
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I had to take down my vids for now as it was chewing up my bandwidth with my plan I have with my site host.
Jim below has some vids on his site, so that should keep you entertained.
These pictures & videos are from my Sony S70 CyberShot digicam.
Vids temporarily taken down, and may be put back up later.
Rob took a vid from Mike, and
a few from me, then added some stills to make a compilation video
of Jim's assault on the hill.
More pictures & Vids
Here are some more pictures and videos from Jim & Judy
Ok, we have some more
pics & vids from Mike.
Be sure to check out the Going
Vertical & Wild Bill vids.
Here are some pictures
from Jim & Trudie's 35mm camera.
Be sure to check out the stitched
pic of Scott's truck pulling out the Pathfinder.
Dr. Z took some vids we had and
used the Windows XP Movie program and stitched them together.
Jataga has it hosted on one
of his servers, and can be seen here.
The video is close to 25 mb
and 5 minutes long, so it's best to right click it and save, then view
it.
I'll update this page with links
to more pictures as they become available.
Summery of trip
We had a group of Toyota's and Nissan's today, so it was a "Toysan" event.
What a day! We got up to about 5,000' and hit some snow.
That was fun.
We ran the forest service road
route 72 down to road 70.
Once we got down to the gravel
pit, the fun began.
There are some steep hills in
there than digicams can not do justice to.
Pay attention to vids 10, 11,
& 12.
They are of Bill & Jim (Pathfinder)
catching air coming up this one steep hill.
I could not pan the camera fast
enough, but both rigs had all 4 tires off the ground at one point.
A little later Jim was going
up a hill, and when he landed, he shot off to the side and started to roll
sideways down a hill.
A tree stopped his fall.
If the tree had not been there,
he could have easily flipped the rig several times.
Scott hooked up and with Rob
guiding him, they were able to get the Pathfinder unstuck.
His axles were buried, and the
dirt was clear up to the doors too.
They had to dig him out.
He did suffer some damage to
the right front fender, and grill guard.
Other than the damage Jim received
to his rig, it was a fun time up there.
I finally got to put some more
faces to the names from YotaTech's forum.
It was great up there, and even thought it was overcast, we were spared from any hard rain.
Dale's and Rob's rigs are pretty
well built up, what we did today was not a real challenge for their rigs.
But watching how they crawled
up the hill with lockers engaged will make you want to get a locker for
the more serious stuff.
Both rigs are fixed up real
nice, with Dale's rig being way up in the air.
Guess that's why his handle
is "upndair."
His rig sports a SAS up front,
with a leaf spring conversion in the back.
It was nice going on the run
with the Nissan families too.
I'm sure Jim will be getting
his pilots license soon after having fun catching air several times.
Jim's personal page can be found
here.
Links to other members pages
can be found in the membership list on YotaTech.
I'd also like to point out
that a lot of web wheelers say you don't need a winch, and that you should
get a locker first.
Lockers are nice, but did
a locker help un-stuck Jim yesterday?
No, another rig equipped
with a Warn winch & ARB bumper saved the day.
I doubt it a snatch strap
would have helped any.
It took precision winching
and digging with a shovel to get Jim out.
A snatch strap would not
have done much good in this scenario.
Also I'd like to state the
importance of having a good CB in your rig.
A few did not have one, and
had to borrow a handheld.
While a handheld is good
for spotting or communicating while in an area like the gravel pit we were
in, nothing beats a dedicated CB radio for the inside of your rig.
Being in a group as large
as ours was for this trip is no fun if you are left out from hearing info
on the radio.