Rubicon pics are up at long last
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Awesome pics. It makes that a "have to do" on the list of trails. Perhaps next year when I have sufficiently armored the car for it.
Man... I have so many comments and things to say, I don't know where to start. I can only imagine doing parts of the trail in snow, looks like and an awesome job getting out, congrats.
This is not a myth, I have seen them roll through with about 20 or 25 trucks filled with engineers and people who had never driven off road before. They do the trail, but the trucks are absolutely beat to shit.
As far as my opinion as to what you need to do the trail, I would say it all depend on time and experience. My friend did it on 32"s with a 2" lift and Detroit locker. He was definitely the slowest person in our group and getting him through was always a challenge. However, he did do the entire trail with only minor damage (2" dent) behind the rear tire. With that said, Harold did it in an ML320, so I would definitely say that is a very subjective question.
Now onto rock sliders, we had one D90 and two Disco Is in our group. Neither Discovery had any damage to or from the rock sliders. I remember back in the day Kyle and Axel talking about this when they did the trail and I fully expected to come back with some serious damage. This wasn't the case; we both had Rockware sliders, one with nerf bars and mine without. I would say that the nerf bars, or "knee bangers" as I remember Kyle calling them, really helped protect the lower body. I think it all goes back to time. We took our time with three trucks, and that dent previously mentioned and another on the D90 were the only notable damage any of us received. Of course we had our 3,000 mile drive home in the back of our minds the entire time so we really didn't want to break anything we didn?t have spares for. I used my winch twice, once on the 90 when it was first and we spotted him on a bad line, and one of the other Disco. The D90 used his winch twice on the other Disco and that was all the winching we did.
Looks like you guys had an awesome trip. I really makes sad that I don't know if I will ever have the time again to drive out there. I would absolutely love to go back and do Fordyce. My only regret is that I didn?t take nearly as make photos as you did.
-Matt
JamesWyatt said:
This is not a myth, I have seen them roll through with about 20 or 25 trucks filled with engineers and people who had never driven off road before. They do the trail, but the trucks are absolutely beat to shit.
As far as my opinion as to what you need to do the trail, I would say it all depend on time and experience. My friend did it on 32"s with a 2" lift and Detroit locker. He was definitely the slowest person in our group and getting him through was always a challenge. However, he did do the entire trail with only minor damage (2" dent) behind the rear tire. With that said, Harold did it in an ML320, so I would definitely say that is a very subjective question.
Now onto rock sliders, we had one D90 and two Disco Is in our group. Neither Discovery had any damage to or from the rock sliders. I remember back in the day Kyle and Axel talking about this when they did the trail and I fully expected to come back with some serious damage. This wasn't the case; we both had Rockware sliders, one with nerf bars and mine without. I would say that the nerf bars, or "knee bangers" as I remember Kyle calling them, really helped protect the lower body. I think it all goes back to time. We took our time with three trucks, and that dent previously mentioned and another on the D90 were the only notable damage any of us received. Of course we had our 3,000 mile drive home in the back of our minds the entire time so we really didn't want to break anything we didn?t have spares for. I used my winch twice, once on the 90 when it was first and we spotted him on a bad line, and one of the other Disco. The D90 used his winch twice on the other Disco and that was all the winching we did.
Looks like you guys had an awesome trip. I really makes sad that I don't know if I will ever have the time again to drive out there. I would absolutely love to go back and do Fordyce. My only regret is that I didn?t take nearly as make photos as you did.
-Matt
I went in August, much later than you guys did. I talked to Harald Pietschmann twice along the way as he passed us as well as the guy running the Jeeps through who runs the trail constantly throughout the summer. Both said trail was very similar to what it was in the early part of the season. They said the big trucks busting though the trail spinning tires and slinging rocks pretty much instantly, as in within a few days, blow away any of the stacking and ramps made by the Jamboree. We actually planned our trip hoping it would be a bit easier from the Jamboree, but it wasn't the case.
Great shots, looks like a good trip. That is one place I want to go through one day, that and Holy Cross City. Wife used to live in Tahoe and she and her ex ran the Rubi a few times in a CJ3B! I remember on eof the Brit LR mags having an article way back about two stock Range Rover Classics running this trail: everybody thought that they were crazy, but they did make it through
congrats.....:applause:
congrats.....:applause:
Looks like an awsome adventure Jack.
id love to sit around a fire and here the words that go with every picture.(no joke)
very cool shit.
did you see any awsome wildlife,
cougars,bears,badgers,bigfoot.
anything?
did you carry side arms or long guns or anything.?for the unexpected.??
jim
id love to sit around a fire and here the words that go with every picture.(no joke)
very cool shit.
did you see any awsome wildlife,
cougars,bears,badgers,bigfoot.
anything?
did you carry side arms or long guns or anything.?for the unexpected.??
jim