Thought you guys might enjoy some photos from our last outing up to Holy Cross here in Colorado, had a great time and lucked out with the great weather.
It rained just for a few hours on Friday afternoon but that moved on out and great weather followed for the next 2 days, we really got lucky on that considering just how wet and green everything is up there right now.
There were 5 or so Early Broncos on the trail along with a fullsize Bronco and a few other built jeeps.
We climbed the beginning of the trail without an issue taking in the blue skies and incredible scenery, everything was quite wet which provided us with a few challenges here and there and made it nice and cool.
Everyone made it across French Creek without much of an issue however Moneypit had a few issues with his newly rebuilt hydroboost which seemed to be locking his rear wheels when he was turning. We had to throw some line to get him around the big boulder on the up hill side and off we went to the next obstacle.
I have heard allot about the giant tree root however I didn't even realize we went by that section until later on in the trail ride. Apparently the route we took is new and although slightly challenging and off camber it turned out to be pretty straight forward and wasn't an issue, looking back thats kind of a bummer.
We continued on taking in the views and weather up to Holy Cross City and parked to have lunch and wait for the Pueblo/Colorado Springs group to show up and watch them play a bit on Cleveland Rock.
Everything they say about Cleveland Rock is true.. its pretty impressive. The puddles of oil and marks across the face of the rock tells the tail of many many tip overs, rolls and breakdowns. Two built rigs attempted the climb and with some clever spotting one did eventually make it.
After the entertainment we headed back down, crossed french creek without an issue passing a few of Jeeps and Yotas here and there. A bit of a drizzle which opened to up to blue skies and we exited the trail to gather firewood and enjoy the rest of the afternoon in the Holy Cross Wilderness.
Everyone made it down without too much carnage, lots of new scrapes and scratches on bumpers and diffs, I lost my centering pin again but had a spare that I replaced at camp that - also bent my tie rod… again not enough to replace and drove home without issue. Matt bent a tie rod end but again didn't really cause any problems on the trail or on the way home, all in all I would say a pretty successful trail run.
OK here are the few photos I took... not any wheeling as I was behind the wheel!
Saturday morning, a little foggy and misty
Top of Holy Cross, this is what is left of Holy Cross City
Looking up to Cleveland Rock
The ride back down to camp
A little fire wood and a thumbs up
It rained just for a few hours on Friday afternoon but that moved on out and great weather followed for the next 2 days, we really got lucky on that considering just how wet and green everything is up there right now.
There were 5 or so Early Broncos on the trail along with a fullsize Bronco and a few other built jeeps.
We climbed the beginning of the trail without an issue taking in the blue skies and incredible scenery, everything was quite wet which provided us with a few challenges here and there and made it nice and cool.
Everyone made it across French Creek without much of an issue however Moneypit had a few issues with his newly rebuilt hydroboost which seemed to be locking his rear wheels when he was turning. We had to throw some line to get him around the big boulder on the up hill side and off we went to the next obstacle.
I have heard allot about the giant tree root however I didn't even realize we went by that section until later on in the trail ride. Apparently the route we took is new and although slightly challenging and off camber it turned out to be pretty straight forward and wasn't an issue, looking back thats kind of a bummer.
We continued on taking in the views and weather up to Holy Cross City and parked to have lunch and wait for the Pueblo/Colorado Springs group to show up and watch them play a bit on Cleveland Rock.
Everything they say about Cleveland Rock is true.. its pretty impressive. The puddles of oil and marks across the face of the rock tells the tail of many many tip overs, rolls and breakdowns. Two built rigs attempted the climb and with some clever spotting one did eventually make it.
After the entertainment we headed back down, crossed french creek without an issue passing a few of Jeeps and Yotas here and there. A bit of a drizzle which opened to up to blue skies and we exited the trail to gather firewood and enjoy the rest of the afternoon in the Holy Cross Wilderness.
Everyone made it down without too much carnage, lots of new scrapes and scratches on bumpers and diffs, I lost my centering pin again but had a spare that I replaced at camp that - also bent my tie rod… again not enough to replace and drove home without issue. Matt bent a tie rod end but again didn't really cause any problems on the trail or on the way home, all in all I would say a pretty successful trail run.
OK here are the few photos I took... not any wheeling as I was behind the wheel!
Saturday morning, a little foggy and misty
Top of Holy Cross, this is what is left of Holy Cross City
Looking up to Cleveland Rock
The ride back down to camp
A little fire wood and a thumbs up
and then I saw you have a purpose built rig for this sort of work out. 
