Great time. Thanks for organizing this and roping in all the CT folks, MJS.

I hope this works. Last time I posted from Picassa, I was the only one who could see them. PM me if you want a link to the whole album.

The gathering






I think I can, I think I can...






Drowning victim


"Bigfoot"






A good day's work


It only looks like I was driving when I took this:

 

yeah, im a BIG FAN of treading HEAVILY

 

This is exactly why I need to get some quick discos (and why I need to be more careful!)

 

Excuse me - I'm a responsible wheeler, and everyone with me that day was responsible as well. We were running ESTABLISHED trails that happened to have some water crossings - we weren't destroying virgin wilderness or anything... the worst that happened was the loss of a couple small saplings when we went down a trail that hadn't been travelled in several years.

TreyB, Scottcarp - great pics, thanks for sharing! It was my pleasure getting us together - thanks to all of you who were able to make it, for making it such a fun day with good people!

I'll post up my pics in the next day or so... I'm swamped with work and school, but will make time to get my pics up (look for some more good water crossings. ). Oh - those of you who posted that blacked-out license plate numbers - thanks, but you don't have to worry about it for me - I'm not paranoid. Does anyone request that their plate # be removed, or can I post as-is? Let me know.

 

That's my Jeep, and even I can't tell the color! BTW, I went through a "touchless" car wash - spent $10 (2 cycles of self-service) with a high-pressure spray to get the mud out of the engine bay and undercarriage, as well as the exterior in general. Then, spent another $10 (for automated "no touch" luxury wash), and my JK looks like crap - I'm going to have to suck it up and wash 'er down by hand in the cold... the wax just layered on top of the muddy residue, so I've got streaking like you wouldn't believe!

 

... I keep thinking of stuff to add. Scottcarp - how's Leslie's TJ holding up? Did the "mini-hydrolock" situation resolve itself once the inline-six dried a bit?

 

I'd love to see that.

 

Thanks for asking. The engine was purring by the time we got down to Town Hall for our rock check. The ride home was uneventful. He's still gonna go in for an oil change and new plugs.

 

Cool - I was hoping he had no permanent damage. As for me, I noticed an odd vibration in the driveline, but after hosing off the mud, etc., from the shafts, all seems well. If anything, my shift points are a tiny bit "out-of-whack" because the CPU "learned" my herky-jerky offroad driving style!

 

Glad it wasn't just me then. My Jeep was a DOG on the highway on the way home. Still is this morning too. Damn CPU must have "tuned" the Jeep for the whole day of crawling that we did.

Thanks MJS for organizing and to ScottCarp / TreyB for the pics. My sons and I had a great time. It was definitely a lot of fun with the caravan of Jeeps and watching "BigFoot" play in the puddles.