This run was was put on by Rob, president of the WA. state chapter of TTORA www.wattora.com
We had folk's from a few forums turn out.
www.wattroa.com
www.yotatech.com
www.fjcruiserforums.com
What a crowd!
I rode up with Will (WillsFJC) on YotaTech.
Will gets the "brass balls" award.
He took his new black & white FJC through some very knarly stuff.
So knarly I tried to talk him out of it.
We went on a few runs, even witnessed the blue trail team rig which was in front of us take damage to the passenger side, as we were right behind them.
Only Rob and the trail team rig took that line, we all took a bypass.
But back to Will...
Him and I followed Rob in his SAS'd Tacoma and Jim in his truck/4Runner conversion, and we were going over logs and boulders.
I swear I did not think the FJ was going to do this stuff.
Will proved to all of us the capability of this new Toyota.
We came upon a line on this trail that had a huge log on it that we might have got hung up on since he has the running boards on still.
Yes, the rbs took damage.
So we went at an angle to the log with A Trak off, and the E locker on.
He gunned it and it swung us around and we were able to get over the log.
Then he switched the A Trak back on again.
The A Trak is the proven winner for when going over rocks and other obstacles.
We also were on this same trail where we had to traverse a stream that is part of the trail.
There was this steep hill laden with boulders and ruts, yet he made it up.
You can see some of the pics of the Tacoma, truck/4Runner hybrid, and Will's FJ coming up the hill.
Overall I was very super impressed with the FJC, and I think everyone else was too.
It was neat meeting Lost Cosmonaut from the FJ Cruisers forum, and seeing a lot of the gang I use to wheel with from YotaTech long ago.
Revtek had a few of their rigs there, and so did ARB.
And of course the Trail Team had 3 of their FJs there.
This was a very huge event, and we had to break up into groups to go out on the trails.
Mad props and kudos to Rob for organizing this and having some trial leaders helping him out by taking a few out at a time.
There were about 3 different routes we went on.
The last one though that I described above was a real pucker factor.
I almost should have brought some Depends for myself.
I will get a webpage made up later with clickable thumbs, but not enough time right now, so here are some resized pictures.
There are many more than will float in from Will, and a woman and her husband in a blue FJ.
I can not remember their screen name, but they are a member of the fjcruiserforums site.
There were a lot of hot Toyotas there today including 4Runners, Tacomas, the FJ Cruisers, and even an older FJ 40.
My camera crapped out on me, the battery needs to be replaced with a new one, or I would have gotten a lot more pictures.
I can not stress enough what a great event this was, and Will surely takes the brass balls award for doing the trail Rob and Jim took.
I think they were very impressed with it too.
Here are the pictures.
http://www.pnw4runners.com/index.php?dir=reiter/
Webpage is now up
http://www.pnw4runners.com/runs/71506/7_15_2006.htm
There are also more pictures posted over at WATTORA
http://www.wattora.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3389&highlight=
We had folk's from a few forums turn out.
www.wattroa.com
www.yotatech.com
www.fjcruiserforums.com
What a crowd!
I rode up with Will (WillsFJC) on YotaTech.
Will gets the "brass balls" award.
He took his new black & white FJC through some very knarly stuff.
So knarly I tried to talk him out of it.
We went on a few runs, even witnessed the blue trail team rig which was in front of us take damage to the passenger side, as we were right behind them.
Only Rob and the trail team rig took that line, we all took a bypass.
But back to Will...
Him and I followed Rob in his SAS'd Tacoma and Jim in his truck/4Runner conversion, and we were going over logs and boulders.
I swear I did not think the FJ was going to do this stuff.
Will proved to all of us the capability of this new Toyota.
We came upon a line on this trail that had a huge log on it that we might have got hung up on since he has the running boards on still.
Yes, the rbs took damage.
So we went at an angle to the log with A Trak off, and the E locker on.
He gunned it and it swung us around and we were able to get over the log.
Then he switched the A Trak back on again.
The A Trak is the proven winner for when going over rocks and other obstacles.
We also were on this same trail where we had to traverse a stream that is part of the trail.
There was this steep hill laden with boulders and ruts, yet he made it up.
You can see some of the pics of the Tacoma, truck/4Runner hybrid, and Will's FJ coming up the hill.
Overall I was very super impressed with the FJC, and I think everyone else was too.
It was neat meeting Lost Cosmonaut from the FJ Cruisers forum, and seeing a lot of the gang I use to wheel with from YotaTech long ago.
Revtek had a few of their rigs there, and so did ARB.
And of course the Trail Team had 3 of their FJs there.
This was a very huge event, and we had to break up into groups to go out on the trails.
Mad props and kudos to Rob for organizing this and having some trial leaders helping him out by taking a few out at a time.
There were about 3 different routes we went on.
The last one though that I described above was a real pucker factor.
I almost should have brought some Depends for myself.
I will get a webpage made up later with clickable thumbs, but not enough time right now, so here are some resized pictures.
There are many more than will float in from Will, and a woman and her husband in a blue FJ.
I can not remember their screen name, but they are a member of the fjcruiserforums site.
There were a lot of hot Toyotas there today including 4Runners, Tacomas, the FJ Cruisers, and even an older FJ 40.
My camera crapped out on me, the battery needs to be replaced with a new one, or I would have gotten a lot more pictures.
I can not stress enough what a great event this was, and Will surely takes the brass balls award for doing the trail Rob and Jim took.
I think they were very impressed with it too.
Here are the pictures.
http://www.pnw4runners.com/index.php?dir=reiter/
Webpage is now up
http://www.pnw4runners.com/runs/71506/7_15_2006.htm
There are also more pictures posted over at WATTORA
http://www.wattora.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3389&highlight=
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