Buena Vista Weekend

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Iron Chest trail rating 6-8
Chinaman's trail rating 4-7
Grizzly Lake trail rating 5-6
Pomeroy Lakes trail rating 3-4
Carnage Canyon trail rating 9-10
 
So far I beleive it will be Luke and family, me and the girls, Lonnie and maybe Andy and Eric.

Saturday July 25 trail ride:
I will propose that we meet at the camp site for Saturday's run which will be Iron Chest and or Grizzly Lake. We will plan on leaving the camp site at 9:00am.

Sunday July 26 trail ride:
I will propose that we meet at the 9:00am at the Gunsmoke for the Chinaman's trail.

If you want to contact me you can PM, email chuck.wigham@atmel.com or call 719.649.9180
 
<--------can't wait for the weekend.


let's roll! :steer:


let's 4 wheel :clap:


the wife will be there :princess:


gonna have beer :beer:


might break something :wrench:


but definitely going to enjoy myself :cool:



woo hoo!!
 
Yet another great weekend of camping and wheeling. Here is a link to the pictures and video I took. The girls took some of them as well so see if you can figure out who took which pictures and vidoe.

BV_2009 pictures by wigham_photos - Photobucket

I'll do a better trip report later but I don't have the time now.

One surprise for everyone that was there for the weekend will be that I had to trailer Pretty Penny home because I had a small electrical fire on the side of the road.

Hows that for a teaser.......
 
Dropped off the RV in Buena Vista and was heading back to Johnson Village to get Lonnie's Jeep when I thought the brake controller was a little crooked so I reached down to straighten it out and the rig just stopped running while running down the road. I thought well that sure is odd so I put it in neutral and cranked the key but no starter noise? Mind you I am still rolling down the highway with a trailer attached. Then I saw smoke coming from down by the brake controller so I did the "smart" thing and turned the key off (still rolling down the road mind you).

Question: What happens to your steering wheel when you turn off the key?

Well I turned the key back on so I could steer and pulled over the side of the road. I disconnected the trailer connector and looked under the dash but didn't see any sign of trouble so I kept my eye on that spot as I turned the key on and the engine started to turn over but did not fire, the spark plugs that is. Lonnie looked up and said, well more like yelled "SMOKE IS COMING FROM UNDER THE HOOD". We poped the hood and we had a small electrical fire up by the fire wall. Lonnie climbed up and blew out the fire. I called Mike with in a minute or two and asked if he would drive from Woodland Park to pick us up and pull Pretty Penny back home. I then walked back the the camp ground that the RV was at and drove it to pick up Lonnie and the dogs. Off to Coyote Cantina we went to have something to eat while we waited for the Mike to pick us up. As we were eating we wondered if the maybe the fire would come back on its own and we would return to a pile of ashes on the side of the road but it was still there just as we had left it. Loaded up Pretty Penny took the RV back to the storage and made it home by a little after 10pm.
 
As I typed this I realized that if the fire came back now not only would Pretty Penny burn up but so would the house? I got go home now........
 
I'm disappointed in myself, because a real friend would have been there to help you get the fire out..............and then laugh his a$$ off and had nothing but jokes about it for the rest of the night!!!! lol.

what were you saying about bringing squirrel food for my motor???? ha ha, yeah, my belt squeaks, but that's one smokin' engine you got yourself there!!!!! man that thing is HOT!!!! :hillbilly: ahhhhh, I kill myself. Let me know if you need any help! :)
 
I am squarely putting the blame on Lonnie. I have ran Chinaman's three times with Lonnie and had problems with Pretty Penny all three times. I have ran Chinaman's a couple of times without Lonnie and came home those times with no problems.

Luke,

Thanks of offer to laugh at me, I mean help me, but I think I will bust a few knuckels on my own before I subject myself to your help.:flipoff2:

Inside Luke is saying :bounce: it's not me :bounce2: I'm not the one who had problems this time! :clap:
 
I haven't started to fix it yet so I don't know what I will find. For some reason I am laughing about it as well. Kind of the same thing as laughing at someone who falls down, they may be hurt bit its hard not to laugh.
 
I've heard it said before that 4x4 people are the happiest people when it comes to their hobby, because they are happy when they don't break anything and also happy when they do.

how many times have we all bragged about breaking that "indestructible" part, or that crazy part that no one else breaks? Have to admit, having a meltdown-wiring fire is a pretty good campfire story................It's all good, things get fixed, and usually better than before. I love 4 wheeling!!!!!!

Right now Justin and I are painting my house, shortly after that I will be putting the 4runner into the garage to tear into the rear suspension and install my Marlin leaf springs. The down time involved is going to kill me, but hopefully the '88 Toyota will get me through.
 
We ran Iron Chest Saturday morning followed by a rest in St. Elmo with ice cream for the kids (me included) then we had to play in the river to wash off the ice cream because it was hot and sunny and melted the ice cream quickly. Then it was off to run Grizzly Lake. Shortly after Lonnie and I started fly fishing at Grizzly lake it started to rain which continued on for about 40 minutes. Sometime around 10pm, not sure of the time but it was after three or four beers, it started to sprinkle. Lonnie set up his awning next to the camp fire but it stopped sprinkling shortly after that. In the morning we had a storm roll through with some lightning and rain but by 9am it was clear skies so we loaded up and headed for Chinaman's. On Chinaman's the trail was getting very warm until the clouds rolled in around 1pm and we had some light rain at about 4pm. It was a good thing I didn't need rain to help put out the Pretty Penny fire because by 5pm the rain had stopped.
 
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