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Old Nov 6, 2009 | 04:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Bama JKX
Are any of the Huntsville guys thinking of coming to Mountianside the 19th of Dec?

https://www.jk-forum.com/forums/south-49/christmas-ride-mountainside-107147/
Sure!! We Huntsville area folks are masters with respect to thinking about wheeling - getting out and doing it is another story however.
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Old Nov 6, 2009 | 08:11 PM
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Jk-Rubi and I took a spur of the moment trip today. Here's a few pics.



















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Old Nov 7, 2009 | 04:12 AM
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Very nice... did you take Gary to the top and let him try that dirt hill?

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Old Nov 7, 2009 | 05:19 AM
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Default Impromptu Trail Ride

What a great day for a very fun ride. Will definitely be returning to these trails - I think there's stuff for everyone, including some decent boulder/rock crawling.

On the way to the trailhead.



Driving past pastures.



The streams were flowing nicely.



Small mud hole that looked worse than it actually was.



Stream crossing.



On three wheels.



It was a perfect day for wheeling.



An old cemetary.



Whoops!! This was deeper than I had calculated. Denny was able to extract me with his winch thank goodness.



Trail had a lot of water flowing around it, but it wasn't too muddy.



Almost finished, it's starting to get dark.



Sun set.

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Old Nov 7, 2009 | 06:15 AM
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Default A few more pics.

Here we are airing down. Denny refused egress from his Jeep so he ran with higher air pressure than me as I was afraid that I might smudge his shiny tires while letting air out.



Water looks okay from the side, but it's higher up front where you create "bow wake".



Denny doing a little flexing.



Back up on top of the ridge, and on our way out.

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Old Nov 7, 2009 | 07:57 AM
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wow those are great pics guys, that place is beautiful
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Old Nov 7, 2009 | 09:44 AM
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Originally Posted by alabamaslinger
wow those are great pics guys, that place is beautiful
Thanks. As I said above, I'm definitely going back as there are trails all over the place that we didn't have time to explore.

Plus, I saw some boulders with my name on them.
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Old Nov 7, 2009 | 10:19 AM
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Default Deceptive Sense of Vehicle Position

Interesting to me that in these two pics, I have such a different sense of what my Jeep was doing suspension wise.

In this pic, I "thought" my suspension was flexed like crazy on the ledge, but in reality looks fairly level.



In this pic, I thought I was level, but the suspension is all twisted. Anyone else ever get erroneous sense feedback like this?

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Old Nov 7, 2009 | 10:57 AM
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Anyone else ever get erroneous sense feedback like this?
Nope...you're just askew in the head
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Old Nov 7, 2009 | 12:22 PM
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Cool Pics! Looks like you guys had a blast. The trees look awesome. I need to get on a trail. SOON!



Anthony
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