Yea, I kinda like that one myself. He was nice enough to let me hose the worst of it
off at his place before I got loaded up on the trailer. Still have some to clean out
of the back where is slipped in under the softtop.
-jenn



On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 10:37:58 -0500, "Kate" > wrote:

>>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
. ..
>>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
m...
>>>>>>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
>>>>
>>