Die Hard AZ 6/12/10

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A little afternoon trip with a coupla crazies;

 

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Bout killed me...... was alot rought than I remember. Been 5

 

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We stopped at the first waterfall for some vids; (for the sake of time, we skipped a deep notch that is tricky to get started on)

Kaistie;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRMCtSY3LJY

I was gonna try the middle, bad idea;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClJU7GK2mqc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCVVtD0Ugfs&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmzJ0rl_Txk

I went and took Kaistie's line;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C6YSFBrDz0

JoeDirt's turn;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5xx-1XCXdQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5jXEdfaZlI&feature=related

 

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60 yards a up was the next obstacle, to the right was the NFW line so we opted for the left line;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZwpXohN5D8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G_Y753kNKc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEOxXxVRyR8

 

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20 yards further;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL9V3hxbnaY

Kaistie took an option HIGH PUCKER line;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1r6-CEsMss

Posers;

Nate lookin if anything needs service;

 

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Here's where the frustration started, that rock on the passenger side was too close for me, it wanted to climb in the passenger window at one point;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X63BRKHiC08

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATgLqNJyp8k

Really frustrated at this point but Kaistie stuck with me and go me through;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPxS4GHI1jM

 

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Joe Dirt with the airtime of the day, this is awesome;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu7vWbh_n_g

 

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Another 100 yards up the wash the next mess, er um obstacle;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLZ4HnSrlKs

At 14 seconds you can hear a clank and that was a bad thing;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWam_qK6REc

 

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I was so worried about the waterfall I couldn't even get to it. psychin myself out and forgettin how to drive;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eYIUToqSLI

The the obstacle only rubbed my passenger rear fender a bit;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaDD5gN1-3E

Way to much stress for me.......

 

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JoeDirt layin it over but drivin out of it;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgl0lEk5Wlo

The walkin the rest;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaDD5gN1-3E

Sure is nice to not GAS and to already be clearenced.......

 

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The "Clank" in Kaistie's rig was his rear driveshaft, he had a spare so we swapped it out and it gave me a chance to let my blood pressure comedown. While we were under Nate's rig we also noticed that his pinion was turned up which was caused by a bent main leaf spring and a broken and crowned spring perch on the non-bent side. Nate was gonna be idling the rest of the way out from here.

50 yards after the repair we got to the spot that I was actually scared of. it has a tendancy to flop you into the wall, then right after that was the rock garden with rocks as big and 44 swampers strategically placed to really get you screwed up.

Here's the only pic I got of Nate on the bad spot cos I was trying to spot him through and we kept hearing more "clanks" from the rear driveline so we opted for the rope;

 

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I was really psyched out about this now, but I ended up walkin right through with the help of Joe as Nate kept goin through the rock garden to the big waterfall which was only 40 yards or so away....... I was pickin my way through the rock garden When Jow came up and he made it without issue other than lifting his rear tire 5 feet in the air again......

Here's Nate takin a break and eatin somethin before the last 100 yards of hell..... or heaven dependin on your perspective.....He is on top of this waterfall that we kinda go around cos the fall is 15' and all undercut;

Looking dowm from the top;

 

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Nice mister.:awesomework:

 

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I was spottin Nate up the stairsteps so I didn't get any pics until he was coming down back into the wash;

 

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We took us all out 1 at a time from here;

 

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My turn, Nate spotting and Joe takin pics;

 

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From here it was just the out road back to the trailers;

Was a frustrating day with all my sheetmetal and glass, I wadded up my brand new rear driveshaft from highangle but it was a fun day with these guys..... I'm puttin this trail on the "been there, done that.....Dont need to do it again" list.

The rest of the pics are here