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Premier · May 26, 2008

truck performed very well. went through some pretty crazy areas, lots of rocks, snow and mud. used my skid plate a few times, its 1/4" steel and i have some nice dents in her now.

anyway enjoy these pics, they dont do it much justice, it was super steep

P.S. this website's picture limit size SUCKS

why do i even pay to be elite?

Premier · May 26, 2008

Premier · May 26, 2008

and finally.... pulling out a yota

and one of me

Afboy143 · May 26, 2008

very nice! Wish we had areas like that here around Tampa

Paraphoe · May 26, 2008

I really wanna wheel in the snow. I'm pretty jealous.

Great pics Jake, looks like a nice park/trail.

And btw, Photobucket size limits are MUCH larger. I just use their photo hosting.

Blee1099 · May 26, 2008

Premier said:
P.S. this website's picture limit size SUCKS why do i even pay to be elite?

How big of a photo were you trying to upload? You should be able to upload almost up to 800 kb images I think.

Donner · May 26, 2008

Well, sucks or not, your paying helps a lotta people see what other places look like, and how or what kind of ideas we can use for our vehicles. Pic size is only 600x400, no?

Blee1099 · May 26, 2008

Donner said:
Well, sucks or not, your paying helps a lotta people see what other places look like, and how or what kind of ideas we can use for our vehicles. Pic size is only 600x400, no?

The size limit maybe 800x600.. Can't remember.. I generally try to limit my pics to that size due to loading time. Even broadband connections will crawl when loading images. I've had that issue on some sites using my mobile broadband card on my laptop.

Premier · May 27, 2008

the images i tried to upload are the ones you see. they are 640x480 210-240kb. they are straight off my camera, but i can never upload them.. they are always too big (size or data?)

it says max is 800x600 but only 156kb

Premier · May 27, 2008

Paraphoe said:
I really wanna wheel in the snow. I'm pretty jealous.

Great pics Jake, looks like a nice park/trail.

And btw, Photobucket size limits are MUCH larger. I just use their photo hosting.

thanks jason. wheeling in the snow is scary IMO. you can sink and get high centered really easy

Donner said:
Well, sucks or not, your paying helps a lotta people see what other places look like, and how or what kind of ideas we can use for our vehicles. Pic size is only 600x400, no?

i know.. i will always pay, i just needed to *****, because i have to use photobucket

Ritsui · May 27, 2008

Premier said:
hey are straight off my camera, but i can never upload them.. they are always too big (size or data?)

That's your problem. A 800x600 image using typical "web" compression levels should be 100kb or less (hence the limit), but cameras normally default to minimal compression and fairly large file sizes.

If you get a program like Paint Shop Pro, GIMP or XNView, you can use batch conversion/re-compression to create much smaller versions in just a few clicks.

Looks like a beautiful place to wheel. Glad to see your truck out again :thumbsup:

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John_Rock · May 28, 2008

Looks good man! :thumbsup:

Try the program Irfanview to resize or reduce the file size of your pictures.

Sams01XplrSprt · May 28, 2008

looks good nice x

Premier · May 29, 2008

thanks guys. thanks john i will scope it out.

storlied · February 7, 2009

Snow wheeling isn't too hard, the biggest problem is not knowing how low the ground is in that spot if it hasn't been traveled yet, you can always go in reverse n drive on your previously made tracks to get out of a sticky situation. But even then, there's so many other factors that come into play. Either way... still some fun stuff.

As for the Elite comment, file hosting is pretty expensive... $20 per member seems like it might be a lot of money coming in.. but there's a LOT of data going through this site, it also could be a software limitation. (Think of it as a network optimization.. not everyone has a fast connection.. and this website, we don't want to try to limit anyone because of any outside factors.)

Hope ya had fun out there, I found it pretty funny the Yota got stuck.. that spot doesn't even look too bad.

Premier · February 8, 2009

the pics dont do it justice. where the yota got stuck, we were on top of snow pack that was 3-4 feet deep. i got stuck trying to pull the yota out, because i slid off the trail. took us close to 2 hours to get the explorer un stuck so we could try and get the yota out again

storlied · February 8, 2009

Been there, was in 2wd (front ds died and I took it out... got stuck..) This passport got stuck trying to pull me out, so we had to have another truck pull him out.. n then to pull me out.. it was ridiculous... lol..

Blee1099 · February 8, 2009

storlied said:
Snow wheeling isn't too hard, the biggest problem is not knowing how low the ground is in that spot if it hasn't been traveled yet, you can always go in reverse n drive on your previously made tracks to get out of a sticky situation. But even then, there's so many other factors that come into play. Either way... still some fun stuff.

As for the Elite comment, file hosting is pretty expensive... $20 per member seems like it might be a lot of money coming in.. but there's a LOT of data going through this site, it also could be a software limitation. (Think of it as a network optimization.. not everyone has a fast connection.. and this website, we don't want to try to limit anyone because of any outside factors.)

Hope ya had fun out there, I found it pretty funny the Yota got stuck.. that spot doesn't even look too bad.

The $20 goes more then towards file hosting.. Your supporting the site. You don't realize the amount of bandwidth the site takes each month. For the month of January alone we had over 434 GB of bandwidth. I'm sure Rick has the hosting setup with 2-5 year plans but normally a dedicated server with its own IP and not a shared one is easily $150 a month if not more depending on the size of the drive, physical memory on the server, etc.

turboranger91 · February 9, 2009

Afboy143 said:
very nice! Wish we had areas like that here around Tampa

head up to hudson... tons of spots up there. :thumbsup:

CrazyAlaskan · February 9, 2009

Hey do you have any pics of the snorkel set up you have? I meen like building it from scratch or putting it in?

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