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- 04 4Runner, 22 Silverado
Josh said:Here is a little blurb I pulled from the northern VA jeepers thread for those worried about damage. I say give it a chance. GWNF is OK but not that tough at least not what I have run so far. I don't want to break my truck either, but that is a lot of gas money to come all that way. most of us have our national forests we can run but not to many ORV parks.
While Crozet is a very challenging park, once you have been down there a couple of times and hit all of the trails about 3 or 4 times each driving them becomes almost second nature, like the trails arent as challenging, but they are still exciting. Over the course of two days on the 20 and 21st I only got stuck once to the point of needing to stack rocks, and the place I did was nearly a black trail. While I think there is a negative stereo type about Crozet being a place you go to tear your junk up, I've been there enought to realize that your only going to break something if you beat on your ride. I have been there atleast 4 to 5 times and this last time my big damage came from running my bumper into the same rock over and over again even though my wife told me there was a rock in the way of the bumper. Beyond a broken mirror, bent bumper and scraped plastic I havent broken or scraped anything I didnt know I was going to do....that is to say that I knew something was going to get scrapped, bent or broken if I kept doing what I was doing and decided myself to not back off. Unless you lack driving skills or a Jeep there is no reason that anyone cant spend a weekend at Crozet having a blast on the trails and still come away with nothing broken and nothing damaged even with a completely stock Jeep.
I do think one thing that the members here on Nova seem to forget is that any member....ANY member can setup a ride, atleast when I was a member you could. Even if you only get one or two other people to go with you your still to have a great time. Chris and Heather will make sure of that. Theres no excuse that its too far away either. Crozet is very comparable to going to GW, infact I might even say their the same distance. And anyone who says Nova is more of a social club than wheeling club so thats why we dont go to Crozet.....well go to Crozet and do some wheeling and stick around for a night around the camp fire. Once the beer and fire starts there is plenty of time for socializing.
Hell wheeling isn't wheeling unless you do some diff whacking or even some rock crushing with the a-arm
I was going to take it easy for a couple of days then i started to do some wiring on my trailer brakes and notice a bunch of crap wrong with my suspension on my trailer, so i've spent about a 100 bucks on this thing and it's taking all my time, my wife is about to kill me, lol!
