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Our wives decided that AzTony and I should take them up to the pines and go trail chasing Saturday. We got warmed up by running Payette Draw first thing. It's always a little differnt each time I am up there due to errosion and traffic. Some parts were easier, some a little harder. This ledge was undercut pretty bad, and it was well past the center of our 37s. I came up to it square on both tires. Couldn't quite pop up the darn thing without locking the back. Probably would of been a lot easier to do it at an angle, but, what the heck, it would of been easier to stay home!! Caught up with a group of Jeeps before the waterfall. One of them decided to go play on the big overhang. If you've been there then you know that it is a lot harder than it looks. Every time you start to lift the front up the wall, the rear wants to crab walk to passenger due to the off camber. After he gave up, I found out that he lives about a mile from me.
We wandered around east and south from there. Found a lot of neat, challenging trails. Most have had very little traffic on them. Some places were pretty tight. Found a pretty hairy turtle slide down a dirt bank into a wash. Glad we did not have to go back up that one, as it probably would of required winching.
Finally crossed Hwy 260 and headed south along the western side of the HellsGate Willderness. A few rock buggies in the area, but overall not much traffic.. Found some more rough spots that took some attention, but fun trails and great scenery. Ran a total of about 40 miels of trail. Need to do some more exploring up there. Some of the trails are dead ends, so kind of boring when you have to do an In and Out on the same track.
On the way to supper in Christopher Creek, I thought I could smell hot rubber briefly. Tires and fan belts were all OK, so didn't worry about it. Got back to Payson after dark, so headed down Hwy 87 back to the Valley. Just south of Rye my dahs lights went out. No smell, no sound, no other problems. Using a flashlight, I could see that all my gauges were reading OK, so I kept going all the way to Chandler. I figured I had popped a fuse. No big deal. Too busy Sunday to look at it, so went out this morning to check fuses. They were all fine. Hmmm. I wonder if this has anything to do with it?
We wandered around east and south from there. Found a lot of neat, challenging trails. Most have had very little traffic on them. Some places were pretty tight. Found a pretty hairy turtle slide down a dirt bank into a wash. Glad we did not have to go back up that one, as it probably would of required winching.
Finally crossed Hwy 260 and headed south along the western side of the HellsGate Willderness. A few rock buggies in the area, but overall not much traffic.. Found some more rough spots that took some attention, but fun trails and great scenery. Ran a total of about 40 miels of trail. Need to do some more exploring up there. Some of the trails are dead ends, so kind of boring when you have to do an In and Out on the same track.
On the way to supper in Christopher Creek, I thought I could smell hot rubber briefly. Tires and fan belts were all OK, so didn't worry about it. Got back to Payson after dark, so headed down Hwy 87 back to the Valley. Just south of Rye my dahs lights went out. No smell, no sound, no other problems. Using a flashlight, I could see that all my gauges were reading OK, so I kept going all the way to Chandler. I figured I had popped a fuse. No big deal. Too busy Sunday to look at it, so went out this morning to check fuses. They were all fine. Hmmm. I wonder if this has anything to do with it?
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