I posted a bit in my build thread and I'll do a bit more trip summary here. Last weekend, a group of buddies and I spent three days at the park in the title. It was an awesome time. We had two TJ's (mine and an 00 sport on 33's), an LJ on 35's and a Cherokee on 32's. All locked. Good group to get in trouble with.
The park is large, at 1400 acres. Its an old sand and gravel mine that has been "converted." Lots of varied terrain and obstacles to scratch every itch. There is a creek that runs through the property and you can drive in it...which was a first for me. Not sure how they get around that with the DEQ or EPA...but it was fun! We did three of the four trails they have and kinda ran out of time for the fourth. The trails are long and go around the whole property. Mud holes, climbs, rocks gardens, and sand dunes. You get a little bit of everything on their trails. They also have some specific areas. I mentioned sand dunes. There is a LOT of sand hill terrain. Its not really sand, its very coarse, but not really gravel either. It reminded me of stamp sand (the stuff left over from mining copper). That was fun to play in and made me wish I had better shocks. it would have made the whoop areas a LOT more fun. I managed to loose my first bead in the sand too...
Dropped into a bowl at a fairly high rate of speed and heard it let go. I finished and got out of the bowl and could feel it. Thankfully I didn't screw up the tire. Swapped the spare on and reseated the bead back at the house we rented (where we left our compressor).
We spent a fair bit of time playing in the "quarry." Those "rockstar garage" guys put out a video on it. There is a part of that video that we didn't try though, because we couldn't find it...called the v-notch. That looks a bit more challenging that the cliff face in the Quarry (which is where most of the video is taken).
Anyway, some pics of the quarry.
Screwing around, putting tires on stuff...
the Cherokee making a short, fairly vertical climb.
I think the driver was spooked...
Trying to capture a sense of scale...This is my ugly mug and 6-2 frame with my jeep in the background.
We did have one little issue in the quarry...well, two, I guess. The LJ got hung up on his belly pan and needed a little tug. He wiped out one of his U-joint straps. Easy fix.
And I don't have pictures of it, but I was struggling with a climb, spun all four, and dropped my driver's front tire off the ledge I was trying to climb. It was scary...thought I was going over. No one had cameras out because everyone else made it without issue so it wasn't like a, "Hold my beer and watch this," moment. I tried it again later and made it without issue as well. It was wet and slick, and I think having both lockers activated caused it. The rocks were off camber and with all four tires spinning they just slide. Good learning experience.
We also played around in the tubes. This was a fun little area with a technical climb that we surprised a lot of people on.
The climb...it was pretty badly undercut and canted toward the tree. I will have to bug @NashvilleTJ about softtop repair...Oops
The park is large, at 1400 acres. Its an old sand and gravel mine that has been "converted." Lots of varied terrain and obstacles to scratch every itch. There is a creek that runs through the property and you can drive in it...which was a first for me. Not sure how they get around that with the DEQ or EPA...but it was fun! We did three of the four trails they have and kinda ran out of time for the fourth. The trails are long and go around the whole property. Mud holes, climbs, rocks gardens, and sand dunes. You get a little bit of everything on their trails. They also have some specific areas. I mentioned sand dunes. There is a LOT of sand hill terrain. Its not really sand, its very coarse, but not really gravel either. It reminded me of stamp sand (the stuff left over from mining copper). That was fun to play in and made me wish I had better shocks. it would have made the whoop areas a LOT more fun. I managed to loose my first bead in the sand too...
Dropped into a bowl at a fairly high rate of speed and heard it let go. I finished and got out of the bowl and could feel it. Thankfully I didn't screw up the tire. Swapped the spare on and reseated the bead back at the house we rented (where we left our compressor).
We spent a fair bit of time playing in the "quarry." Those "rockstar garage" guys put out a video on it. There is a part of that video that we didn't try though, because we couldn't find it...called the v-notch. That looks a bit more challenging that the cliff face in the Quarry (which is where most of the video is taken).
Anyway, some pics of the quarry.
Screwing around, putting tires on stuff...
the Cherokee making a short, fairly vertical climb.
I think the driver was spooked...
Trying to capture a sense of scale...This is my ugly mug and 6-2 frame with my jeep in the background.
We did have one little issue in the quarry...well, two, I guess. The LJ got hung up on his belly pan and needed a little tug. He wiped out one of his U-joint straps. Easy fix.
And I don't have pictures of it, but I was struggling with a climb, spun all four, and dropped my driver's front tire off the ledge I was trying to climb. It was scary...thought I was going over. No one had cameras out because everyone else made it without issue so it wasn't like a, "Hold my beer and watch this," moment. I tried it again later and made it without issue as well. It was wet and slick, and I think having both lockers activated caused it. The rocks were off camber and with all four tires spinning they just slide. Good learning experience.
We also played around in the tubes. This was a fun little area with a technical climb that we surprised a lot of people on.
The climb...it was pretty badly undercut and canted toward the tree. I will have to bug @NashvilleTJ about softtop repair...Oops
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