Wharton NJ, Easy Trail Ride 1/29/11

[SuRrEaLNJ]

will be reporting for duty and with finding nemo for the co pilot to watch if she gets bored

mine mine mineminemine

 

[hunterdan]

Unfortunately because of the snow and lack of work that had gotten done the last 2 days my work has instituted mandatory overtime tomorrow to make up for lost time. So instead of heading to jersey, I will be heading to work tomorrow morning. Hope you guys have a blast and don't break nothing.

Dan

 

[dreddog47]

SO if I'm tracking correctly, the updated list is:

hunterdan - not wheeling, but down for the meet and greet session
SuRrEaLNJ - wheeling
dreddog47 - wheeling/96 bronco on 35's
tgreene92 - 2nd gen on 31's
LiKuiD - 94 on 33's
bstarz65 - wheeling 97 on 31's
SuddenDeath - Jeep Grand Wagoneer
Paraphoe - 97 on 33's (might as well be stock) J/K
924dr4x4
explorerguy89 - wheeling

Glen4X4 - possible
CALDWELL - possibly wheeling 3rd Gen
00meangreenXLT - stock 2000 V8



I separated Glen, CALDWELL and 00mean because they're on the fence or haven't replied to the thread in a long time, so I wouldn't count on them.

Looks like we're down to 9 trucks and 10 guys if John comes.

He will be there, he is part of our convoy including me, LiKuiD

 

[Paraphoe]

Got it. Sounds good. So we lost Dan, but gained another truck. 10 trucks. I'll be leaving in about 30-40 minutes, should be there at 10:00, give or take 10 minutes.

 

[dreddog47]

any of you home yet? I'm uploading pictures as I type

 

[Paraphoe]

Had a blast out there today. I left after the first half of the day and the rest of the group went back out for more. Haven't heard from any of them yet, so I'm assuming they stayed out a LONG time or are still thawing. Below are some of my pics.

It really was a great time, the tree branches across the trails were kind of annoying - a lot of trees were bowed because of the snow weight and were beating the piss out of our roof racks, but it wasn't too bad.

Of COURSE, I was the only guy to get REALLY stuck. Happened in a big mud & ice pit. For some reason tgreene got through without an issue on his 31s, so I figured I could handle it - no such luck. And it look Jay with his beast to finally pull me out after 2 other failed attempts with 3 other trucks.

All in all though, an awesome time. No one broke anything (while I was there) and everyone was really cool.

 

[sk1er17]

Awesome man!

So whats up with your driver side camber?

And where the hell are the "stuck" pics :

 

[dreddog47]

Wow your pictures came out awesome! I'm gonna steal some of em

I'll post mine up in a second

 

[Paraphoe]

And some videos:

Jay taking on the mudpit that sunk me. He eventually got out under his own power, but my card ran outta space before that point.

Meangreen gettin pull out

Pulling a tree outta the way:

Crawling under trees:

Running on the way out:

 

[dreddog47]

Alright, I'll start from the top!

This is one of my favorite pictures i took on the road

Low hanging tree branch, we hit about 5000 of these

Paraphoe got stuck bad

I tried, but couldn't get the traction to pull him out

SurrealNJ ended up getting him out, im sure those pics will surface

more to come

 

[Paraphoe]

Awesome man!

So whats up with your driver side camber?

And where the hell are the "stuck" pics :

I think the camber might just be the angle of the camera? I don't think it's that bad. I DO need an alignment, though.

And as for the stuck pics, I was inside the vehicle, but just wait for the others to upload, I'm sure they won't let me live that down (looking at you, Jay).

 

[dreddog47]

We headed back to wawa, and upon entering the road, this thing came FLYING down the road approaching us, then we all got stuck behind him

Back at wawa

back on the trails

I dont have it on video, but after 3 tries i did indeed make it up this hill.. here are the only 3 trucks to make it to the top

LiKuiD, SurrealNJ and me

Double team, I got this on video, including the loud CRACK

This is the worst carnage I had, one of my HID bulbs fell out of my housing and melted, and destroyed the housing from smoke damage... lifetime warranty will be put to use come Monday

 

[00meangreenXLT]

These are the best ones i've found on my camera so far (sorry if the pics are really big)

I think this is my favorite from the pics i took:

This was almost me haha:

The most major break down of the day :roll: :

I've got some more that i gotta go through so i'll probably end up uploading some more tomorrow

 

[sk1er17]

You guys are killin me. I need some "mod money" asap... im itchin to get back out there :roll:

 

[SuRrEaLNJ]

Im home

stopped at the supper wawa on 70 with don after the pic-a-lilly to grab gas air and coffe.

no further idle problems after this mornin odly enough.

photos are on their way up

 

[Paraphoe]

I kinda wish I stayed - I love the pics of you guys going up the hill. Would've loved to have tried that!

 

[SuRrEaLNJ]

public link to the first 200
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2111469&id=1292876913&l=1aa0e3151f

public link to the last 16
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2111473&id=1292876913&l=c1751d6713

damn ice

 

[Paraphoe]

You guys are killin me. I need some "mod money" asap... im itchin to get back out there :roll:

I bet you could get some good cash for your kid. C'mon, you know you don't love him (her?) anyway....

 

[SuRrEaLNJ]

I kinda wish I stayed - I love the pics of you guys going up the hill. Would've loved to have tried that!

dreddog lukid and myself all have claim to the hill today

and don wins for still havin a left side of his truck

 

[dreddog47]

I was amazed I made it up that hill, certainly makes up for my &*(%$#( bulb destroying my housing....