MaddBaggins
Remember the KnightRider!
What an awesome weekend out with my family, splitshot and his kids. We ran the Rug Road to Turkey Creek and out thru Wilcox. I had some mishaps along the way, but nothing that stopped us from having fun.
Thursday, left my house and ran the back dirt roads to Mammoth. At the San Pedro River crossing at Mammoth there was 4 inches of water. No big deal, I hit and dropped in to my axles in sand. The truck was not moving anywhere. I got out and started to shovel, but it kept washing back in. A pair of county workers in a pickup came up, turned around like they were going to back up and help us. They took off, set up a road closed sign and lit out of there. Assholes. Finally, an old CJ5 came up, looking to cross the river. Instead, they let me hook my winch to their front bumper and haul my ass out of the river. First time I ever used my winch.
Thursday-Saturday-The trip was awesome. We camped in Virgus the first night. It got down to 24* overnight and the place was beautiful. Next two night in Turkey Creek. It started raining around 3am Saturday night and the creek came up pretty good. We packed up and headed out in a light rain on Sunday.
Sunday, the trip out. Just at the end of Turkey Creek, I snapped my POS solid bar, front panhard rod. We limped it very slowly into Klondyke. There John and I examined the carnage and found that it had been cracked a 1/3 of the way thru for some time. We removed it and used a bunch of cargo straps to make a ghetto panhard. This allowed us to limp all the way into Wilcox at an average speed of 15-20 mph. It took 5-1/2 hours to get from Turkey Creek to Wilcox-75 miles.
Once in Wilcox I waited for my buddy to get there with his portable welder and we fixed it up and hit the I-10 home.
What a trip.
Linky to all of my pics.
Thursday, left my house and ran the back dirt roads to Mammoth. At the San Pedro River crossing at Mammoth there was 4 inches of water. No big deal, I hit and dropped in to my axles in sand. The truck was not moving anywhere. I got out and started to shovel, but it kept washing back in. A pair of county workers in a pickup came up, turned around like they were going to back up and help us. They took off, set up a road closed sign and lit out of there. Assholes. Finally, an old CJ5 came up, looking to cross the river. Instead, they let me hook my winch to their front bumper and haul my ass out of the river. First time I ever used my winch.
Thursday-Saturday-The trip was awesome. We camped in Virgus the first night. It got down to 24* overnight and the place was beautiful. Next two night in Turkey Creek. It started raining around 3am Saturday night and the creek came up pretty good. We packed up and headed out in a light rain on Sunday.
Sunday, the trip out. Just at the end of Turkey Creek, I snapped my POS solid bar, front panhard rod. We limped it very slowly into Klondyke. There John and I examined the carnage and found that it had been cracked a 1/3 of the way thru for some time. We removed it and used a bunch of cargo straps to make a ghetto panhard. This allowed us to limp all the way into Wilcox at an average speed of 15-20 mph. It took 5-1/2 hours to get from Turkey Creek to Wilcox-75 miles.
Once in Wilcox I waited for my buddy to get there with his portable welder and we fixed it up and hit the I-10 home.
What a trip.
Linky to all of my pics.
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