RC 2/7/09

Today was awesome. Mark and Paul, We were so glad to be able to spend the day with you guys!!!! I hope we get to do it again soon!!! You guys rocked and Paul was a key player in most of the rescues....and there were many!!!

I am bad at the run-down....but here goes:

We had me and Chris in the Jeep, Clay in his XJ, Ken and his wife in a "factory direct" (PC name for stock) TJ and Ken's brother (Phil) in his "factory direct" TJ, Bill in his bronco, Paul in his CJ7 (with Mark's son....who I thought was Paul's son for most of the morning!!!!), Mark in his Blazer, Ed in his YJ, and Greg in his Toyota.....

We hit CV trail first.....all of us had to be winched out of CV trail except for Mark and Greg, who turned around and made it back out the way we came. Chris' winch snapped. Ed's brake line busted. It was craziness!!! They fixed Ed's line enough to get him home on front brakes and he left.

Then we did Trail 2 and Frog Hole hill climb...everyone made it except for the 2 factory direct Jeeps....who took the bypass. We did some other stuff that I can't remember and headed over to the playground for lunch.

We then headed down the Power Line and over to H. Out to the 10's and got muddy....stuck...unstuck...and muddy again. Chris blew through Milkshake, as well as Greg. HUGE ice chunks where someone had broken through before us. Then we got to Smoothie....which swallowed Chris up during the summer. Well...it was unbroken and looked to be frozen pretty good.

NOT! We got about a Jeep length into the main part of it and broke through. The ice was a good 5 inches thick. Greg tried to pull us out....denied. So Bill winched us out and we were on our way.

We did 11, 14, 19 and it was all a blast. The factory direct guys did a super job despite some stuck places. It was pretty slick out there.

We went back to staging area to say bye to Bill and Clay. Then went out and did "O" and Trail 4. Whipped around on the easy stuff on the way out and loaded up.

Like I said, I stink at the run-down thing....but I swear next time I will keep a journal. So much stuff happened. We had a great time and loved meeting the new people to the club!!!

Nine of us ended up at dinner for at The Goose and had a nice time. Then we headed for home.

Here are some pics and at the bottom, a link to the rest:

The Gang





















The rest of them:

https://s323.photobucket.com/albums/nn467/alphaomegaoffroad/RC%2002%2009/

Thank You Pattey you just save me about and hour writing the trip story.

Yes we had a great group there my winch got a good work out on CV trail the snow and ice it turn a blue trail to red.

Great group it nice to see members I have not seen for a while and it was nice meeting the new people with Chris club.

The factory direct group did extremely well the listen to the spoters and got through everything we did with no damage.

I get my pictures up ASAP that means sometime this week.

Glad you guys had a great time. Looked cold!!!!!!!!

Pattey, you did a geat job on the story, it takes time and good memory to recall every single thing. but by large you did fine. Nice job and good pictures too. Can't wait for more of them to show.

here are my pictures
https://s705.photobucket.com/albums/ww52/mdcj7/

Thanks Paul!

Awesome pictures, Paul!!!!

This all makes me want to get out there as soon as I can.

Great Pics Paul. That was a good series of me going through Milkshake!!

I'm with you Jimmy. My next scheduled ride is march 20 or so but I don't think I can wait that long..... Anyone wanna go sooner???

Thanks for the videos!

More great clips and pics.

Thanks

Here is a link for pictures I had taken.

https://s442.photobucket.com/albums/qq148/MARK565/Rausch%20Creek%20Feb%2009/