Epic. You think the trail keeps going or was that the end? Water over the roof? Beat to crap trucks. You guys don't fawk around. Very cool. You leave the trailer behind part way in or drag it to the lake?
Yeah Martin, don't know about epic, was hoping the lake was going to be warm or there was a hotspring around, then it would have been epic
But it was really satisfying making it though. Seems like it is the end of the trail. Yeah sometimes I wonder who else is crazy enough to do some of the stupid things that we do, just to make it through a trail, I think most wheelers would get pretty anoyed at the first few KM of bushwacking and turn around, then some of the road building we do, I can't believe how crappy we build it then Adam tests it out then we fix up so it's not so rollable. I took the trailer in to the 2nd river crossing to where we normally made it to since I was unsure what lay ahead and didn't want to get into a bad situation, cause I am sure the water experience may have ended a lot worse with a trailer in behind.
Water over the hood when I took a wrong line during a quick trail building episode by river crossing 2 and we were coming back to camp for the night when I got a bit lazy and didn't want to travel up the river for 5 truck lengths and dunked it close to the deep part only to get pushed sideways and into the middle of the deep, then as my tires were loosing traction and water rushing into my windshield I threw it in reverse only to be swept back by the current deeper and all I saw was water out all the windows, Amanda said she saw water over the roof, but truck kept running due to backwards set snorkle head (due to bushwacking) and finally as water filled over my crotch, the deep ended and I climbed back onto higher river bottom, opend the doors to let water out, then over to the bank to take a better stab at the crossing. Weird feeling when the back end of the truck is floating and all you see is water out the windows
August long looks like a trail clearing thing, cause the last 5 KM near the lake are pretty much like a 5KM long auto car wash, where the rolling flaps are actually willows and the odd small pine or spruce, then every half a KM one of those rolling willow flaps turns into a thicker spruce tree that doesn't give when you brush up against it. I actually got wedged between two of those trees when I was leading near the end and had to chainsaw my self out of the situation.
Yeah Phil I think Adam might be upset if it were a Swamp Donkey thing, might have to be an Old School Offroad thing, but we are all friends and anyone is welcome as long as they know that scratches are garunteed, dents are probable (but avoidable if taken slow and we clear the final 10km), good attitude is manditory (mostly because s***ty situations get pretty bad when you are 30km and 3 days away from the trail head)
We really haven't wheeled together..... ever? Just a couple times I guess - one time where I stuck a poplar branch through my sidewall.