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by fishsticks » Mon Oct 31, 2011 11:19 am

Kyle, did you check your driveline after that incident on the shelf?
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by Trail X » Mon Oct 31, 2011 11:24 am

He did end up getting up it after taking a slightly different line. I didn't get a video of that, though I'm sure someone else did.

Oh, and the shelf had a nice V notch in it where the driveshaft was.
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by HARDTRAILZ » Mon Oct 31, 2011 11:41 am

Dented slider but good to go otherwise. Sucks the front fell in hole or would of made first try.
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by fishsticks » Mon Oct 31, 2011 11:46 am

HARDTRAILZ wrote:Dented slider but good to go otherwise. Sucks the front fell in hole or would of made first try.


Lock the front when you do 4.10s and you'll crawl right up that.
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by navigator » Mon Oct 31, 2011 11:53 am

at about the 6 minute mark when Kyle tried to go up and the others went down I see why you guys preach armor all the time. Without sliders I can't imagine what Kyle's driver side would look like!

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by HARDTRAILZ » Mon Oct 31, 2011 11:38 pm

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by Trail X » Thu Nov 03, 2011 10:50 pm

Video #2. Some clips are a bit long, I didn't want to edit too much out; but it gives you a good idea of the trip and snow. Some decent shots of the other guys in the second half.

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by HARDTRAILZ » Sat Nov 05, 2011 7:37 am

I know there are more pics and vids out there...
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by bartonmd » Sat Nov 05, 2011 11:47 am

HARDTRAILZ wrote:I know there are more pics and vids out there...


Yeah, I had to work late all week to take off early Friday for vacation, and I just ripped them to my HDD this morning... BY Monday, I expect to have the video compiled...

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by onelow1ton » Sun Nov 06, 2011 6:40 pm

Nice pix and vid's guys I hope that I can get out there with you guys next time.
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by bartonmd » Sun Nov 06, 2011 8:32 pm

Had a couple issues with the conversion and such, but here it is, 1/2 size, low quality, and without sound... for now...

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by Trail X » Sun Nov 06, 2011 10:06 pm

Nice compilation Mike. How in the world did youtube let you upload 25 minutes? I thought there was a 15 minute limit?
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by bartonmd » Sun Nov 06, 2011 10:34 pm

JamesDowning wrote:Nice compilation Mike. How in the world did youtube let you upload 25 minutes? I thought there was a 15 minute limit?


It would seem that I'm a badass, and they recognized this, and gave me a higher limit... Actually, mine used to be 15 minutes, then when I went to see what the limit was, it had a little screen that said "you can now upload videos longer than 15 minutes"... I dono...

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by Trail X » Tue Nov 08, 2011 11:36 am

Mike, if I give you an FTP account, do you think you could upload the video? I have decent editing software that should be able to handle your raw file type. What was the file type?
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by bartonmd » Tue Nov 08, 2011 2:02 pm

JamesDowning wrote:Mike, if I give you an FTP account, do you think you could upload the video? I have decent editing software that should be able to handle your raw file type. What was the file type?


It's not my editing software (Adobe Premier CS4), but the ripping software that I used, that gave the file an odd audio format that CS4 couldn't do anything with... I just need to rip it to AVI in another software (this free stuff only let me rip it to MPG)...

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by fishsticks » Tue Nov 08, 2011 2:07 pm

bartonmd wrote:
JamesDowning wrote:Mike, if I give you an FTP account, do you think you could upload the video? I have decent editing software that should be able to handle your raw file type. What was the file type?


It's not my editing software (Adobe Premier CS4), but the ripping software that I used, that gave the file an odd audio format that CS4 couldn't do anything with... I just need to rip it to AVI in another software (this free stuff only let me rip it to MPG)...

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Grab VLC. www.videolan.org

It will read/play/convert just about anything. Convert/Save the files to h.264 with MP3 audio track and YouTube will have zero issues.
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by bartonmd » Tue Nov 08, 2011 2:12 pm

Perfect, thanks!
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by Trail X » Tue Nov 08, 2011 5:05 pm

Ah, I see. The cam recorded to cassette or something?
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by bartonmd » Tue Nov 08, 2011 6:25 pm

JamesDowning wrote:Ah, I see. The cam recorded to cassette or something?


Mini-DVD

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