Man, what a gooey, sloppy mess.
Looks like a pretty place but I'm fairly certain that I wouldn't like it
quite as muddy. Some mud is a blast, but all mud kinda makes it work.

Thanks for posting the pics Jenn. My favorite is the one with Mudball and
your buddy, showing your custom mud stripes.

Kate

"jbjeep" > wrote in message
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http://jbjeep.terahex.com/Elbe08/Elbe08.htm



On Tue, 27 May 2008 09:04:31 -0500, "Kate" > wrote:

>>Sounds like quite a workout.
>>
>>Our group petered out. It turns out that Rough Country is having a fun run
>>on the 6th of June, everyone changed their minds and decided LAST minute
>>to
>>wait till then.
>>
>>I suppose it wasn't a bad thing, I heard some funny noises under mine and
>>Dick crawled under it. Turns out that there was a couple of issues under
>>there that may have really scred something up if they had come loose on
>>the
>>trail.
>>
>>I dont mind so much because we generally try to avoid doing anything on
>>three day weekends anyway. Too much booze, too many idiots.
>>In the neantime, I have everything ready to go except the food bax. That's
>>not so bad!
>>
>>I'm looking forward to seeing your photos!
>>
>>K.
>>
>>"jbjeep" > wrote in message
. ..
>>>>I had to laugh when you said geocaches, I forgot that it's all YOUR
>>>>fault
>>>>that I even got into it.
>>>>I got my GPS and my PDA all loaded up this afternoon. We'll have to swap
>>>>lies when we get back.
>>>>
>>>>Have fun Jenn... I'll hop a rock in your honor
>>>>You sling some mud for me.
>>
>>We only managed to hit two caches. Just dropped some bugs and coins. It
>>was fun
>>tho. 5 of us piled into one truck and went out for a couple of hours on
>>Sunday.
>>
>>Saturday we headed up to Elbe Hills, OMFG!!!! I now remember why I dont
>>like to
>>wheel on holidays! There must have been several hundred people up there.
>>Luckily,
>>most of them didnt seem equipt to be on the trail we were running. It was
>>wet,
>>slimey, and disgusting (also double diamond trail). The second set of mud
>>holes were
>>deeper than the top of the tub in one spot. All went well, just lots of
>>winching and
>>things until later in the day... when I got stretched out going down a
>>rock
>>with a
>>3-4 foot drop, then about 10 feet of mud, then you climb up a knarly root
>>wad...
>>well, 1/2 way up the root wad the Jeep dies. Everything works except the
>>gas gauge
>>and it wont start. It cranks and tries, but no go. The guys dink around
>>a
>>while.
>>Figure I must have screwed up when filling it (and not gotten a full
>>tank),
>>so we
>>siphone 3 gallons out of another rig and put it in mine. No luck. We
>>finally got
>>the rig pulled back out of the hole, and to the bypass that was only a few
>>feet
>>behind it. Started down that with one guy pulling me front the front and
>>another
>>hitched on the back, no power brakes and no power steering. I made it all
>>of maybe
>>50 feet before getting caught by a tree. This obviously was not going to
>>work. The
>>bypass is narrow and very very twisty. So we stop to look at stuff
>>underneath now
>>that we are in a "dryer" spot (rather than 6" of mud - everything was wet,
>>it stormed
>>and howled and poured and there was lightening all weekend). Lucky for me
>>Robin is
>>the one who crawled under to look. After much thought and conversation he
>>was able
>>to find the problem, where an electrical connector had pulled apart -
>>obviously the
>>one to the gas gauge and the fuel pump. He also was the only one of us
>>who
>>could
>>have reached it easily. He popped it back together and the Jeep fired
>>right
>>up and
>>was fine the whole way back to camp.... we got in about midnight. It was
>>just
>>getting dark when we got off the trail, but then we had to get down the
>>mountain and
>>had an hours drive back to our camp once we hit the highways. We went
>>thru
>>a lot of
>>big parties on our way out, lots of kids and boozing, I hope no one ended
>>up
>>hurt
>>this weekend. After that the only trouble I had was discovering a flat
>>tire
>>on the
>>Jeep when I went to load it up this morning. I will have to fix that
>>soon.
>>The
>>truck and trailer worked like a champ and it was delightful to just pull
>>in
>>and let
>>everything sit while I got a shower and stuff. In fact, I will probably
>>just leave
>>the Jeep on the trailer and the trailer hitched up because in 4 weeks we
>>head out for
>>the Fordyce trail and the Rubicon trail.
>>
>>I'll try to get pics up by the weekend...
>>-jenn
>>