Rubicon trail pix, 9/1-9/3 Labor Day Weekend

[Phimosis]

This was a clean cut, successful run from Wentworth Spings to Tahoe City. The biggest trail fail was a bent cross member that took out the boot on my stock JK front driveshaft. Other than that, we both got broken licence plate frames, but no other body damage or mechanical failures.

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James had to work on Saturday, so we left Bakersfield at 7pm on a Saturday night.


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After a good night's sleep at the Gold Trail Lodge, preparing to hit the trail.


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Lake Walton



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Post Pile



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Post Pile



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More Post Pile


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Granite Bowl


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Loon Lake spill way during Cantina on the Con

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Granite Bowl


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Camp site just after Little Sluice and Spider Lake, after a park ranger came by and made us put our fire out. Fortunately, they didn't ticket us.


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Shadows being thrown by moonlight during a full moon

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Our neighbor across the way had a blazing fire and the rangers didn't bother him all night!

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Fog rolling in under the moonlight



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Becka in the baby sized tent


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Buck Island Lake



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Bending my sway bar link while flexing. Electronic disconnect or not, that sway bar is in the 6'oclock position!

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Buck island dam


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Trail work at Big Sluice

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Rubicon Springs bridge



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Cadillac Hill



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Mesh for erosion control on Cadillac Hill.

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Looking down from a boulder at a lookout point on Cadillac Hill. Cameras really never catch the persective correctly. This is a cliff that is about 50 feet tall and nearly vertical.

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Bikers on Cadillac Hill

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It's hard to see, but a little stream comes out from under the log.


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Observation point


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End of the nasty part of the trail. There were still sections that required 4Lo after this, but nothing scary.

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Filthy was the order of the day


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Even more filthy!


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Not so filthy, but we made it without major damage!


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Lake Tahoe

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Uncle Tom's Cabin. The name says it all!


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Rubicon creek by Wentworth Springs camp ground.


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Abandoned cabin after Wentworth Spring camp ground



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Start of Post Pile

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After hitting a big rock on Post Pile, it bent my cross member up into my front drive shaft and took out the boot. We removed the cross member, placed it between two trees, and applied gentle winching until it drug my jeep a few feet.


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And Viola! Nearly straight!


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Boot carnage


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Chunk of granite I removed when bending my cross member. Technically it's not a cross member, but a wimpy stock skid bar that partly protects the transmission oil pan and exhaust cross over. I received my Evo Offroad skid plates a few days before this run and had time to install the engine and tranmission oil pans, but didn't have time to finish the job by installing the exhaust cross over skid. :-(


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Taking the left side of Post Pile seemed like it would be more fun!



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8 psi and no bead locks. Everything held up well, but I did get quite a bit of rock rash on my wheels.

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Unimog on Portals. Pretty cool rig, but it seemed underpowered compared to a TJ or JK with the 4:1 transfer case.

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My rock eating tires. It was common to see 6" rocks stuck in the treads!


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James, checking for undercarriage damage after slamming it down for the Nth time.


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Start of Walker Hill at sun down. We had no idea what we were getting in to!


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Walker Hill in the dark


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Random drunk guys on Walker hill in a tube frame buggy! Nice.

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Hill adjacent to Little Sluice


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Rock Crawling 101 for girly girls. She did a great job for being her first time out!


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Again, no beads lost with 8 psi and no bead locks!


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More rock crawling 101 for girls!

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Branch point from granite slab to Old Sluice.

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Folding that baby over at 8psi!

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Getting in to Old Sluice. The camera doesn't do it justice. This section is hard.


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More Old Sluice



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The watering hole


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And lastly, a Defender 120 that I saw on the road in Denmark a few weeks ago.
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If you're curious, the tyres are Simex Extreme Trekkers.

[Burrt]

Nice photos larry

[Phimosis]

Thanks! This is only about half of them. I ran out of time last night,
But wanted to post them in a timely fashion. More to come tonight...

[lqwdhigh]

Great pics!! I think your zoom lens wasn't working on a few of the pics!!

[Dirty LJ]

Awesome Pics!! Looks like a great trip!!

[abendx]

Looks like you guys had a good time.


What's with the heavy construction equipment.... Do you know what they were doing? Looking pretty grim as i see it. Hopefully you can tell me I am way off.

[Phimosis]

[quote="abendx"]Looks like you guys had a good time.


What's with the heavy construction equipment.... Do you know what they were doing? Looking pretty grim as i see it. Hopefully you can tell me I am way off.[/quote]

They are repairing the heavily eroded sections by adding 6-12" sluice rock as "pavers". Friends of the Rubicon argues that people were making their own bypasses around the heavily eroded sections, which damages the pristine nature of the wilderness around the trail. In their defense, they also add sections with 24-60" boulders at choke points to make the trail challenging and to keep stock vehicles out. I had to drag James (76foxx) out of their manmade obstacles 2 or 3 times because his 33" tires just weren't enough.

To me, it makes sense to do what they are doing because of the sheer number of people that go to that trail. It's a little dissapointing because it gives some sections an SVRA feel to it, but the majority of sections are still wild and hairy.

[H. Badger]

Looks like a blast

[Phimosis]

Things of beauty:

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Good bye stock driveshafts. Hello Tom Woods!