tacorocketswiss
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- City, State
- Bozeman, MT
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 86 Bronco II Eddie Bauer
Trip Report:
Ended up doing a tour of Idaho this last week and managed to get some good wheeling in. We began in Bozeman, MT and headed down through Yellowstone with the intentions of going thorough the Tetons and camping somewhere in there and coming out at Jackson, but the road was closed until Friday. So we detoured over to Rexburg and cut across to Craters of the Moon and spent the night there. Luckily it was about 10:30 when we pulled in and I didn’t see how desolate it was until the next morning. Did a couple quick tours since we were there and continued on to Nampa/Boise. Did some night wheeling that Thursday night and tested everything out on Meat Grinder. The doubler and new suspension seemed to work properly. The new crawl ratio is amazing, but the driveline could use a little more work. The next day a few of my old buddies and I did a run up through Carnage Canyon. Both days of wheeling were great and no major breakage. I did manage to scrape off my door and test out the new sliders. I came down hard enough on one to bend up the entire rocker. Both great trails, and now I realize how much I missed the surrounding areas there. Saturday we headed up through Stanley (never stop there for gas, 3.50/gal!!) and camped out in Salmon. We finished the trip by going over Chief Joseph Pass, Big Hole Battlefield, and Virginia City. All in all, it was a great trip! Had the GPS going the length of the trip, the little B2 managed to do over 1200 miles and a total accent of over 38,000 ft. I was very impressed. With the tires and gears I managed to pull about 16mpg (a lot better than expected). Well, now on to the pics of the couple of trail runs. I have a few, and I’ll try not to bore you with the rest of the trip.
My girlfriend took all these pics, and some turned out real well.
I was looking through a Crawl magazine and shot a quick comment on how cool some of the pics in the mag turned out. On the trail I jokily brought up the magazine and asked her if she was taking magazine quality pics.
She quickly shot back “Is your rig a magazine quality rig?”
That was the end of that conversation…
On with the pics
Ended up doing a tour of Idaho this last week and managed to get some good wheeling in. We began in Bozeman, MT and headed down through Yellowstone with the intentions of going thorough the Tetons and camping somewhere in there and coming out at Jackson, but the road was closed until Friday. So we detoured over to Rexburg and cut across to Craters of the Moon and spent the night there. Luckily it was about 10:30 when we pulled in and I didn’t see how desolate it was until the next morning. Did a couple quick tours since we were there and continued on to Nampa/Boise. Did some night wheeling that Thursday night and tested everything out on Meat Grinder. The doubler and new suspension seemed to work properly. The new crawl ratio is amazing, but the driveline could use a little more work. The next day a few of my old buddies and I did a run up through Carnage Canyon. Both days of wheeling were great and no major breakage. I did manage to scrape off my door and test out the new sliders. I came down hard enough on one to bend up the entire rocker. Both great trails, and now I realize how much I missed the surrounding areas there. Saturday we headed up through Stanley (never stop there for gas, 3.50/gal!!) and camped out in Salmon. We finished the trip by going over Chief Joseph Pass, Big Hole Battlefield, and Virginia City. All in all, it was a great trip! Had the GPS going the length of the trip, the little B2 managed to do over 1200 miles and a total accent of over 38,000 ft. I was very impressed. With the tires and gears I managed to pull about 16mpg (a lot better than expected). Well, now on to the pics of the couple of trail runs. I have a few, and I’ll try not to bore you with the rest of the trip.
My girlfriend took all these pics, and some turned out real well.
I was looking through a Crawl magazine and shot a quick comment on how cool some of the pics in the mag turned out. On the trail I jokily brought up the magazine and asked her if she was taking magazine quality pics.
She quickly shot back “Is your rig a magazine quality rig?”
That was the end of that conversation…
On with the pics
