Great day yesterday, learned a lot from this day ...
1. Greg is a badass with a heart of GOLD. Zero chance I roll my rig and the first thoughts after making sure everyone is ok is, well, let's get to work on the recovery and keep wheeling. Very fortunate that nobody was hurt. I will try very hard to remember the example he has shown me if something like this ever happens to me.
2. Yotas are hard to kill. Flip it upright, small puff of white smoke and it started right up. Pry bar the fender off the door and it was able to close. Crazy after being on it's side.
3. Wheeling is a perishable skill. After several months away, everything felt sketchy and I had to get used to the feeling of going over rocks again. I needed a spotter several times and everyone else seemed just fine driving along. I missed @VBRoamer as my personal trail guide and spirit animal.
4. Andy and Greg love rock hoppy trails. I'm used to trying to keep up with Andy, but right after the rollover we ended up on what I would guess was an ATV trail for a hundred yards or so before it dumped us out onto the bottom section of Beeline. By the time I got onto the trail, Greg was already at the bottom.
**much respect to Mark and his Land Rover. He had smallish tires and lift and kept up with us with very few issues.
We spent a good part of the day on blues, then maybe the last hour we went back down the powerline area near check-in and did greens so my son Cam could drive. He's super stoked to drive trails again and already wants to try harder ones, but I will need a Xanny refill first. He got to see firsthand how quickly things can go from normal to scary on a trail.
I had an intermittent rear locker issue that I'm not sure if it sorted itself or not, might need one more outing to see if it needs to be looked at or not. Steering wheel is off a bit now too, that seems to happen often. Maybe I should learn how to not just bulldoze into large rocks. Haven't checked for damage, will get there eventually.
Pic my son took of @Crusha on the trails. Seems he didn't get any pics pre-rollover.
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1. Greg is a badass with a heart of GOLD. Zero chance I roll my rig and the first thoughts after making sure everyone is ok is, well, let's get to work on the recovery and keep wheeling. Very fortunate that nobody was hurt. I will try very hard to remember the example he has shown me if something like this ever happens to me.
2. Yotas are hard to kill. Flip it upright, small puff of white smoke and it started right up. Pry bar the fender off the door and it was able to close. Crazy after being on it's side.
3. Wheeling is a perishable skill. After several months away, everything felt sketchy and I had to get used to the feeling of going over rocks again. I needed a spotter several times and everyone else seemed just fine driving along. I missed @VBRoamer as my personal trail guide and spirit animal.
4. Andy and Greg love rock hoppy trails. I'm used to trying to keep up with Andy, but right after the rollover we ended up on what I would guess was an ATV trail for a hundred yards or so before it dumped us out onto the bottom section of Beeline. By the time I got onto the trail, Greg was already at the bottom.
**much respect to Mark and his Land Rover. He had smallish tires and lift and kept up with us with very few issues.
We spent a good part of the day on blues, then maybe the last hour we went back down the powerline area near check-in and did greens so my son Cam could drive. He's super stoked to drive trails again and already wants to try harder ones, but I will need a Xanny refill first. He got to see firsthand how quickly things can go from normal to scary on a trail.
I had an intermittent rear locker issue that I'm not sure if it sorted itself or not, might need one more outing to see if it needs to be looked at or not. Steering wheel is off a bit now too, that seems to happen often. Maybe I should learn how to not just bulldoze into large rocks. Haven't checked for damage, will get there eventually.
Pic my son took of @Crusha on the trails. Seems he didn't get any pics pre-rollover.
