Was a very good day on the trails. Lotsa jeeps there today, I was very surprised to see that. Good news is we didn't see one of them on the trails today. We had me in the 40 with Crusha riding shotgun, Andy Zook in his Tacoma with Andy Marquardt as a passenger, Vince in the Lexus, Eric Oldenburg in the goat pig, new member Chris in his 91 FJ80, and jeepinpete in his locked 80. A lot of snow on the ground in places a good five inches. of course with temps in the teens all the water was frozen too. We started out on the culvert trail- not particularly difficult (but always a tight fit for 80's) normally but a real challenge in the snow. I believe till we got everyone through not a truck escaped some body scars. Vince and Chris had dents in their passenger wuarter panels, Eric busted one of the rear side grilles on the 55, and I banged the passenger side of my hardtop off two trees, Oh well........... From there we went around and did a trail with a long fairly deep water hole, we've been through there before but with two inches of ice. Was interesting getting through there- Eric discovered neither of his front wheels were pulling. Told me after he got through that he was scared- he was only wearing sneakers! Would have been a cold step out of the piggy. From there we went across the road and did a number of the side hill trails. Nothing overly difficult but interesting in the snow. We wound our way all the way to the top of the ridge and discovered two new (to us) black trails, in snow too gnarly for our group. Found a new trail down into the bottom of the Barney Rubble trail, no tire tracks on that trail. Looked at Twister but I think in the snow not all our group would have made it at elast not under their own power. Did a few more of the hill climbs and called it a day. Nobody really broke anything except for Eric although Chris did have a rather harsh bang into a tree on the culvert trail. ll in all a good day not a s cold as i would have thought but it was windy and really got windy as I drove home. That's it for the keystone March club run! Hopefully a lot of the guys will be posting photos it was good day for that.
