june2009 uclc run pics

Lost · 06-15-09, 09:56 AM

thx to jeremy for hosting us at his cottage,
and thx to all the mosquitos for welcoming us to their land...

to the others that were there, lets see the pictures and videos, im dying to see wayne's wheelie!! my pics arent that good since i took em with my phone...
ill cut straight to the money

more @ june2009 uclc run pictures by sdcamyotte - Photobucket

whos da fuzzy wuzzy

Lost · 06-15-09, 09:57 AM

Lost · 06-15-09, 09:57 AM

crushers · 06-15-09, 10:46 AM

i wish i would have seen the black fuzzy, i like wild life...

crushers · 06-15-09, 11:06 AM

some nice shots, a camera might be nice next time...you have the knack of good pics.

Rig of Mortis · 06-15-09, 12:05 PM

Good shots Simon, thanks for taking those.

Hey Matt... Let me get that for you.

romey · 06-15-09, 02:19 PM

awesome!! i missed the awesome'nessess!

thanks for sharing the pics, great job for a camera phone!

MrMoMo · 06-15-09, 06:09 PM

Well since this seems to be the photo thread, I'll move my stuff here...

UCLC WSSR Run - the 30 hour Cruiser-A-Thon…

Hope this isn’t too long winded for people, I always enjoy a good trail story – I hope you do too. If not – just use the pictures to tell the story!

It all started Friday at noon (well, actually it started long before that, but we’ll skip that stuff) I punched out at the time clock and waited for the moosecruiser to pull up to the back door of the shop for last minute emergency skid plate weld-on-age. Using a bottle jack and a few chunks of wood we got the skid pan in place for long enough for me to apply some steel bubblegum – done, sorted – hope it stays attached for the weekend because we’re out of here!!

Well, almost. Mike had to stop off to sign some paperwork first, then home for a shower because he was covered in rust dust from cleaning up the skid plate. – So I decided to head to Napa to see if they happened on the off chance to have some spare belts – just to be a little more prepared. No dice on the belts – I decided to head off ahead of Mike and meet him at the Flying J on the 401 in Napanee. I’d top off the “just incase juice” while I waited for him to arrive. (that’s diesel for you non-veggie folks).

So, around 2:00 Mike pulls in, fuels up and we’re off – Bombing down the 401 to meet Nicholas and the Rig of Mortis at Princess Auto in Oshawa. We arrived around 4 ish and decided to go in and see what stuff we could find that we really didn’t need, but would buy anyway. Shortly thereafter Nick arrived, phoning me from in the store since we easily could have walked by each other without knowing – seeing as none of us had met before! “I’m walkin’ along with my hand in the air” “Ok, I see you…” With each of us purchasing items, then out to the truck to check each others rigs out… by the time we pulled out it was after Five. (so much for arriving for dinner at this point!) We started heading up HWY 12, stopping off shortly for a sack of oranges (apparently the ROM likes to eat oranges). Since we were stopped we grabbed some subs from the subway by “Palm beach Megatan” – eating off the hood of the cruisers in the middle of the parking lot… for obvious reasons…. Right then, down to business – off we go – we can still make good time… Oh.. lets stop at Canadian Tire. So, Mike has some Radios now, and Nicholas has batteries for his radio. Mike has glass cleaner and paper towels…. We can see out the windows now (unlike later in the weekend!). Now that we all have radios that work on the same frequency, we can make some progress…

sweet. Off we head in some random direction – evenually joining back up with HWY12. Sweet – on the way!! Oh – what about stopping at Giant Tiger – Nicholas wants to get some rubber boots. OK, found a Giant tiger, they close at 9 (in 7 minutes) – we bomb in as they start turning out the lights. Grabbing what we can Mike finds a “My wife says I’m happy” can holder (which he promptly sharpied to “My X Wife says I’m happy”). I grab a bug jacket (or so I think) and a few chocolate bars, Nicholas grabs a bug jacket, but no boots – apparently there is a Wal-mart in the next town that’s open until 10. –Off we go again!

Somewhere along the way we found another Canadian Tire – not open, but it had a Rig of Mortis sized Chair out front…

Right then, Wal-mart it is…. Where’s wal mart? Following some idiot with a GPS (in a blue cruiser) we trashed around a few neighbourhoods, then took off down the right road in the wrong direction… Eventually Nicholas brought us to our senses and we turned in the right direction and viola (or violin)… found a Wally world – WITH BOOTS. Yippe! Still all carrying our FRS radios around with us, Nicholas asked Mike if he was still at the checkout – unwittingly answering “Yes” Mike unleashed the high point of humor for the day. This opened the door waaaay too wide for Nicholas, who exclaimed over the radio, broadcasting to all near the checkouts… “OK, I’m just going to the truck to rub one out” Then the long silence as Mike and I had un-controllable laughter…..

SO – Now we are really on the way, and it’s good because we’ve still got quite a way to go, and it’s now 10 – the Walmart is closing. One last stop at a Timmies, where I had the sense to turn OFF my radio before walking inside…. (if only they had known). On the road for good now – Arriving at camp around 11:30PM. Talked for a bit then set up the truck and went to sleep.

MrMoMo · 06-15-09, 06:10 PM

WEEEEEEEELIN!!

Right then, this is what we all want to hear about right!!

We set off to the trail head on Saturday morning all pumped and ready to go. Quite an impressive line up of trucks – with a 70 leading the way for 5 60’s and a sweet BJ80.. (Yes, you read that right) First hole on the trail is still beside the highway, so we all do a good job of messing it right up and getting stuck. Well, maybe not all of us, but most of us!)

At this point I have more pictures than words – so I’ll let them speak for a while…

And then we saw something I have never witnessed before. A Wayne hole so big, that even Mike would not attempt to Moose it though… (though he did dip in up to his knee himself!) After an unfortunate decision that we had no way over, around or through it, we decided to turn back and run the trail back out. – Again, I’ll let the pictures speak – they are much better than I am…

Back at the cabin, we sat and relaxed for a while, cooked up a few burgers, dogs, sausages, and some steaks. Plenty of stories, and wisdom shared. With the Moose in a deep sleep – we headed out in a reduced capacity of only 4 trucks, the 70 and three 60’s. Off to a different trail this time. We figured we had a few hours of light – so we would see how far we could get… I dub this – the MOSQUITO TRAIL – HO-LEE-CRAP!!

I was the second truck in line this time, following the tractor, with the idea in my mind that the more trucks went through, the deeper the holes would get. Being that I had the least prepared of any of them (lifted with 33’s but not locked, or tractor tired, or SOA with 37’s!) I figured it would give me the best chance. The first hole we came to got Wayne stuck – yes – WAYNE STUCK –

This should have been an indication that this was going to be a tough trail. When the tractor gets stuck, it’s not a good sign. Though quickly he self recovered and it was my turn. Very Carefully I chose the wussie line and got all the way through… Phew! Nicholas didn’t find enough challenge in the hole the first time, so backed up and got completely smothered in muck, and also stuck. Here a tug, there a tug.

Next big hole, and it was a looong one. Wayne goes through, calls me on the radio and says – “you’ll need to give it on this one – it gets deep at the end – put your tow strap on now so you don’t have to get wet putting it on down here” Word from the wise…. On goes my tuggum, over the hood, up on the roof. My brilliant brain says “open the door, hang the strap in so it doesn’t fall in the water” Brilliant brain realized a few minutes later, that this then requires opening of said door, while it is under water, in order to remove tug strap…. (lesson learned)

Tugged up out of the hole we prep for the Rig of Mortis to pass through – however, there is not much room for him to pull up. Says Wayne to Jeremy… “Just drive it through the next hole”….

“Why did you stop?” “Well – Drive it out!” - so he did! THAT was a DEEP hole with something very hard in the bottom!

I tried to sneak around the side and soon found what a steep side angle is!! (Wayne did his best to scare me by wiggling my truck by grabbing the roof and saying “does it feel like you’re gonna go over???”)

Next up were a few puddles, then we got into the "challenging" section

Trying to take videos and pictures on this trail was hellish on the hands – at one point I counted 7 mosquitos on my right hand while I was trying to video Wayne crawling over a massive rock….

I decided to abandon my truck for fear of it not making the drive home – the terrain got a little beyond my comfort level. After watching Wayne weave the 70 though what I thought was impossible, Nicholas did the same in the Rig of Mortis

– followed shortly thereafter by Matt in his JDM locked beast.

I still decided that I was better off with my truck on the easy side of the rocks, as we still had to come back out this way later on. Luckily for me, later was quite a bit sooner, as we rounded the next corner and came uppon a rock & tree field that the 70 could barely navigate, let alone a 60. Abort, abort, back the other way. At this point we started loosing light anyway so It was a good time to start heading back. (though Wayne had hoped for a 2 AM return to camp!).

Turning around of course meant one thing… going through all the MASSIVE holes, that we had made even bigger on the way in.

As I watch the hole ahead of me, I see nothing but mud flying and the sound of a 3B sounding much like it must as it screams it’s last breaths of air, I mean RUGGED. Matt going through the “just drive through that hole” hole. Out the other side and in goes Nicholas.. Good god – where did the Rig of Mortise go? DAMN that thing is deep now!!! Some good trail carnage as the drivers side shock did a 90° bend and gave up it’s previous life as a pogo stick emulator. (but didn’t break!)

Here I got to witness my first combination, Waynehole / Moosing it / triple sow cow. HOLY CRAPPERS – that’s a Youtube keeper… (this was the hole that he told Jeromy to “just drive through that next hole” on the way in

Right, Now we are back to the hole where I learned about water levels and doors. Matt drops the JDM cruiser in and “Mooses it” Rarely does one see Matt “Moose it” but he does seem to be picking up on it’s use… Only making it about 15 feet, he starts to back up when his swing out with the tire on it does a 180 off to the side… WHOA WOAH WOAH!!! He stops at the perfect spot, where I just stand at the start of the hole and latch it back up again… A couple more back and fourths and the locked RHD JDM is out of the hole. Right then, time for me to get stuck. “Matt, you want to just hold my tug strap, cuz I’m only going to get about 10’ in I think” “Sure no problem” I drop in the hole in 4Lo 2n’d MOOSING it through the floor, get about 10’ and it starts to bog. Matt is doing his damndest running along ahead of me with the strap, but before I lost all momentum I whipped out of 2nd and back down to 1st… up at about 3800 RPM that lil old 3B was just SCREAMING and I WAS STILL MOVING!!! Running along Tugging me BY HAND Matt somehow managed to get me through the WHOLE THING!! THAT for me was the most amazing part of the whole day/weekend/career/cruiser ownership. I still don’t know how it happened – Matt must have eaten his wheaties good that morning!!!

MrMoMo · 06-15-09, 06:12 PM

Back to the trail head and into camp, Chat for a bit then off to bed. Up in the morning for more great stories, then fixing trucks and heading home. Wayne was off first, loaded up and rolling home – hopefully he doesn’t loose a wheel on the way home this time. We all rolled out by noon, with four 60’s headed west on 518, and two headed East.

Mike and I decided it would be a good idea to stop off and get SOME of the mud off the trucks, earlier than later… he was having some vibration issues with the front end. We stopped off in some little down and found a pressure wash…. Lookee what I found when I started washing under there…

GOOD GOD!! HOW the fawk, in the name of the cruiser gods did I manage to do that!! (and not notice!!) ONE BOLT LEFT – and it was FINGER LOOSE!!. I was under there in the morning and didn’t notice a thing!! Well – no harm done but that would NOT have been nice if it dropped off at 100kph!! Trucks washed (a bit) and running a little better (no more speed wobbles) we finish off HWY 11, then #12, and onto the 401. At this point Mike unleashed his secret weapon (don’t ask what it is but I think he has one of Waynes Propane systems in there) He flipped the “throttle on” switch, lit the afterburners and was gone. I was pegged, but at 125 with muddy unbalanced tires, he was still pulling away. I gave up and decided not to end my life this late in the weekend… I relaxed back down to a more comfortable speed and eventually the Moose Juice must have run out as he slowed down and I caught back up. 6:15 pm, I rolled back into the driveway – 908km later still with the same full tank of diesel, 230 photos/videos, and more memories than I can count or type… I’m home. La Tortuga Azul has some new scrapes on the shell, and needs a vaccation – a new exhaust, some driveshaft bolts (!!!!) and a forced air induction system to aid with old age breathing. I think it’s time for little brother (the 40) to come out of retirement for a few weeks, while some TLC is performed on my TLC. Camera JUST finished downloading all the pictures so now I can wrap this up and start posting. (videos will take a little longer, I have 26 clips to sort through…!!)

Thanks for the great weekend everyone – and special thanks to Jeromy for providing the location…. And everyone else for the entertainment & enjoyment. This will not be a trip I will soon forget.

crushers · 06-15-09, 07:06 PM

wicked trip report Bruce...
i would like to see the vids, who has those?

MrMoMo · 06-15-09, 08:06 PM

Working on the videos - they take a bit of editing before posting - but trust me, they'll be worth the wait...

Rig of Mortis · 06-15-09, 09:41 PM

Until I catch up with my two friends who were riding as passengers with me and download all of their photos and videos, this video I shot with my camera will have to suffice.

This is Wayne lurking through the last hole prior to our U-turn at the end of the trail on the second outing for Saturday.

crushers · 06-16-09, 03:15 AM

Riggy has a new avatar!!

that wasn't a very smooth water crossing...

crushers · 06-16-09, 04:56 AM

anyone got a link to the 3B intall into the 80 thread? i would like to post up a comment.
same with Rig of mortise thread?

Lost · 06-16-09, 03:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by crushers

some nice shots, a camera might be nice next time...you have the knack of good pics.

i got a 35mm, but no money for film :(

Quote:

Originally Posted by crushers

anyone got a link to the 3B intall into the 80 thread? i would like to post up a comment.
same with Rig of mortise thread?

i was looking at what i posted, and theres no write-up...
i can tell you he did it in my buddy's backyard//tiny garage, 14 days down time, add a welder, torch tool, engine hoist, and a donor 1983 bj60 with 250k km...

http://forum.ih8mud.com/80-series-te...0-3b-fj80.html

zaldi wanted to see if he could sell it. so i posted here.
http://forum.ih8mud.com/vehicles-tra...d-ontario.html

MrMoMo · 06-16-09, 06:17 PM

Damn... where can I host a video with a sound track? Everywhere I try to upload keeps blocking me because of "copyrighted content" That's lame...

Lost · 06-16-09, 06:38 PM

leave the musac off, i love the sound of the diesel!
i dunno where sorrys...

MrMoMo · 06-16-09, 07:33 PM

Man, video sucks to upload. I'm gonna find a way around this somehow..

Anyway, started uploading the raw footage, not the edited video.

Uploaded some more over night...

YouTube - Rig of Mortis pulling through
YouTube - Matt pulls out of the swamp
YouTube - Rig of Mortis in a short but deep mud hole
YouTube - Matt through the hole the other way
YouTube - Wayne holing - 3 wheeling a Cruiser

crushers · 06-17-09, 07:05 AM

some good vids there...
i never realized how low that back corner was to the water... it felt worse than it really was.

thanks for posting up.

GLTHFJ60 · 06-17-09, 07:37 AM

Excellent report! I can't wait to see the videos when I get home.

Rig of Mortis · 06-17-09, 01:25 PM

Some more videos of the Wayne Sh*t Show Run, June 2009.

Checking my U-joints pre-trail run.

Rig of Mortis, mud hole 1

MrMoMo mudding it

Moose Cruiser downhill mud

Jeremy in the 70

Wayne threading the needle

ROM downhill mud

ROM Mud hole2

3 times lucky

Back at the cabin at the end of the trail... prior to our second run of the day.

crushers · 06-17-09, 02:32 PM

nice vids, got more?

Lost · 06-17-09, 04:54 PM

sweet videos

LandBlazer · 06-17-09, 05:19 PM

Looks like an awesome trail, to bad the weekend did not work out for me and Jake.
Great pics and vids! Cool to see a bear, and on the spring run, the moose and deer.
Can't wait till the UCLC Aug run!!!!!