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Rubicon trail

SUPAFLY

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Had a great time, although the drive is VERY long on bias ply tires! This trail is non-stop pick your line. (and pick it carefully) Started out with 5 in our group, ended the trail with 4. It was my Jeep, a black TJ with 35's open front and rear, a YJ that was sitting pretty low but locked front and rear, a CJ-5 with rear locker, and a Scrambler locked front and rear. Monday we ran a nearby trail that runs to Lake Barret. (this trail was probably more difficult than the Rubicon) Ran the Rubicon Tuesday and Wednesday. Besides the CJ-5 that didn't make it out (yet) there weren't any major issues and I crawled through everything without a problem except Little Sluice. (Lil sluice scares me now that I've seen it up close! :eek: ) I highly recommend tubes fenders and plenty of armor, these rocks aren't very forgiving! My sister is getting married tomorrow so I had to leave, but I did all I could to get the CJ as far as possible. Enough with the babbling, heres the pics!





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Little Sluice............I'll do it next time! :wink:


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Carnage! First, a broken frame, then a broken steering box. This old Jeep was slowly taken apart by the Rubicon. (RIP)

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Cadillac Hill. This hill climbs 800ft in elevation with some nasty ledges.


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Observation point


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Time to go home


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we drove around it, that thing is NUTS!


Yeah, I got my ass kicked on the Box bypass last year. I intend to make it this year. :D

Here is a pic of me there last year. While It looks fancy, my rig got to hoppin and tried to sling me back into the box, so I opted for the winch option. This was after 3 or 4 tries of hammer down, spinning tire smoke shows. And nothing to show for it.

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The Iroks do awesome! I only had to lock it up a couple times, but that was when I was doing some of the harder stuff. Ran 5 psi and they grabbed very well.
 
We just got back today. We went up with 3 Early Broncos and 1 CJ7. Here we are at the observation point after the climb up cadillac.....on Tuesday 7/24.

Ryan.
 

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Thanks for the great pics guys. I'm heading down with several friends on the 17th. Now I have an even better idea of the challenge that lies ahead.
 
Awesome pics guys, more captions would be nice personally so we know where.whet your doin. :flipoff:

Supafly, did you drive the Jeep the whole way down, wheel the con and then drive it back? If so thats very commendable....:awesomework:
 
Awesome pics guys, more captions would be nice personally so we know where.whet your doin. :flipoff:

Supafly, did you drive the Jeep the whole way down, wheel the con and then drive it back? If so thats very commendable....:awesomework:



Yes I did, and thank you!:beer:
 
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