[quote="Phimosis"]I'd like to start off with a big thank you to everyone for being gracious hosts! I had a fantastic time. Everyone was absolutely spectacular. I'd also like to give a special thanks to Matt for climbing underneath my Jeep in the middle of the night on that cold, windy, hill to remove my steering stabilizer that I mangled and pretty much stopped me dead in my tracks.
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Exiting Henry's butt-crack.
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AJ getting the winch!
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Campground at night
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Powerline road at dusk
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Sluice rocks
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Did this cause body damage? It looked you you were well into the side of that rock!
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I carry wader boots with me for just for this type of occasion. I lent them out to this lovely couple and they got their first use today! I'm just glad it wasn't me wearing them. I'm also surprised he made his wife get out and hook up the tow stap. After all, he's the one that got them stuck!
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Does anyone have this picture with me billowing out blue oil smoke? If they do, I'd love to see it. The PCV and intake was clean. James suggested it was oil pooled in the valve cover being sucked around an exhaust valve. Sounds like a reasonable explanation. Any other ideas?
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Always keep your rig shiny side up!
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Random badness that I was too scared to cross.
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West Freeman trail, north of Vic's cat trail (not shown on SVRA map)
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Scouting ahead as the trail got narrow....
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The trail turns into a crack in the wall where and underground spring spills out
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Thank god you had those wader boots, that would not have been pretty if I had to jump in there without them... although I would have... We are going to look at another suburban this weekend and hopefully we will be hitting the trails again soon

but staying far away from mud pits!!!