WOW - what a hellava trip!!! With 13 JK's showing up on Saturday, 6 staying the night to camp and enjoy the Northridge4x4 sponsored Korean BBQ and then an additional 2 JK's joining up with us on Sunday, this Project-JK newbie run up Last Chance Canyon was by far the biggest one to date!! For everyone who showed up (toad, CLACKY(_!_), SDMF, IGOFSHN, crazy4sip, JeepCacher, doojer, directedby, kidjeep, brandonis, fr33land, SoCalRubi, Trail Bud, huskynox and if I'm forgetting anyone, I sincerely apologize) thank you for coming out to play. We really had a great time with all of you.

Anyway, here are some pics from our 2 day trip...

Here we are meeting at Mike's Roadhouse Cafe in Mojave, CA for breakfast and making their parking lot look like a Jeep dealership...



Lining up, airing down and disconnecting our swaybars at the trail head...


Making our way into Last Chance Canyon...


First small rocks on the trail...






Rock ledge climb...




Climbing out of the wash...






Decending back into the wash...




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NOTE: As some of you may have noticed, the original thread was accidentally deleted by me. Need I say, I am reposting this thread and will try to provide quotes of some of the comments that were posted before.

 

Here's a shot of toad checking out the action up on the bypass...


Making our way through a rock garden...


A few shots of wayoflifette and doojette taking on a harder line...




doojer working on his spotting skills...


Stretching out our legs and hanging out at Cudahy Camp...


Climbing the last hill...












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Here's a couple of shots of us working our way up the El Paso Mountains on our way to the Burro Schmidt Tunnel...




Here we are at the Burro Schmidt Tunnel...




Walking through the tunnel...




View from the other side...


Here are some shots from camp...








Starting up our Sunday run by looking for geocache along the way...




Checking out the awesome views from a peak...




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Okay, here are some of the original comments that were made...

 

It's great that so many people showed up. Looks like fun was had by all.

 

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Originally Posted by jared1843

Nice pics. How come everyone in these picture has their tops on??

Well, most of us had our JK's filled up with camping gear. Without a top on or some kind of cargo netting, all of our gear would fallout - Also, it was flipping hot out and turning on the AC from time to time really helped out

 

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Originally Posted by kidjeep

Cool, at least I made one appearance before I had to bail!

Yup, I snapped a few shots of you before you had to leave. I'm glad to see you got home safely and glad to hear you son is feeling better now

 

Pictures really don't do it justice but this was a very steep hill decent...


And of course, a shot of fr33land climbing back up the hill...


Making our way to the petroglyphs via routes doojer picked out for us...














Shots of fr33land's blow out...



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Here are shots of wayoflifette from the last hard obstical of Sunday's trip...








Here are shots of Trail Bud making it up...






And, here are some aftermath carnage shots of JeepCacher's JK after loosing his passenger side front tire bead which in turn caused his driver side rocker to get hit pretty hard...




Here we are reseating his tire bead...


At last - the petroglyphs we've been looking for all day!!


And finally, airing back up and reconnecting our sway bars for the long drive home...



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Here are a few more comments that were made earlier today: