Moab Easter Jeep Safari 2012

[chevycrew]

So we headed down on the 4/2/12, Monday morning. Once we arrived we ran Hells Revenge, then setup camp at Slickrock Campground.

Tuesday was Kane Creek in the AM, followed by Steel Bender in the afternoon. The EJS run was on that trail and we caught some of the guys from Eaton with a rear axle problem. They borrowed some tools, and then we followed them out with a jeep in front wheel drive. That made for getting back to town after dark.

Wednesday was a long day! We started on Poison Spider, where we caught a large group of trucks on a full size run. We worked are way past them and moved on to the Golden Spike trail. Along the Golden Spike we ran the optional Where Eagles Dare trail, before continuing on to the Golden Crack. We caught a group of JKs at the crack, waited for them to get across, before we passed that group as well. We finished out the series of trails with Gold Bar Rim.

Thursday and Friday were pretty lazy days, just being tourists and checking out stuff at the Vendor Show, and Potato Salad Hill. I ran the Potato on Thursday night a couple times without any issues.

Carnage:

Bent drivers knuckle, cracked frame at steering box, couple other minor issues that have already been fixed. Overall a wonderful trip!

Over 300 pics and vids here: (In reverse chronological order)

http://s909.photobucket.com/albums/ac29 ... ri%202012/

[Mudwheelin]

Sounds like you had a great time man! Looking forward to your TB pics!

[bartonmd]

Sounds like fun!

Figured it would eventually happen about the frame at the steering box... 1-tons have that issue, so figured it would have to be reinforced at some point...

MIke

[chevycrew]

Mine is plated both sides, but I need to add hydro assist to take the strain off. The force was enough to bend a knuckle, so it doesn't surprise me our thin frame failed where the plating ended.

[Mudwheelin]

Nice pictures man! Looks like you had a great time. Wish I had areas like that around me.

[Trail X]

Nice Steve! I embedded your slideshow into your post too. Thanks for finally sharing an outing with us!!

It was nice of your wife (I assume) to take all of those pictures for us.

[chevycrew]

Actual it was a buddy who went, 3 of us guys went and took the tb and the 4 wheeler. We met up with the toyota (a coworker) once we got there.

[dvanbramer88]

The USA star and "official use only" on the Yota is funny and all but IMO doesn't belong on there. I'm a "MADE IN AMERICA" guy and i feel the only thing the toyota should be officially doing is burning rice in Japan. Not to undermine its offroad capability or anything. It has more capability than my truck as they sit and i respect that, just not for me. My $.02

But anyway, Nice pictures and great trip!

[chevycrew]

Toyota didn't exactly build that toyota that way, and made in america currently rules out just about everything.

If this discussion goes any further it should become a seperate topic.

[HARDTRAILZ]

Nice pics.

[dvanbramer88]

and made in america currently rules out just about everything.

Unfortunately, you're right.


I'm just ball busting, It's a nice truck by any standards.

[RyansTBLS]

Love the pics! I'll have to ask my Uncle if he saw your TB down there, you might have seen him at the Warn booth.

[chevycrew]

He might have seen it, almost everywhere I went people had said they seen it.

[navigator]

Awesome pics, I went to the end and viewed backwards.
Now we see why you need such an awesome rig.
I'll have to say though your tires look skinny on that big rig!