Trip to Hot Springs was a good one, the original forecast was for a hot sunny day on Friday and rain moving in on Saturday. However, the rain held off until late Saturday night so we got in two great days of jeeping. Unfortunately, the storms dropped about 5" of rain Saturday into Sunday and I was not able to get in any Mt Biking. Win some, you lose some.
On Friday, I led a group of 4. A buggy on 43" stickies, a 4 runner on 42s, a bobbed Tacos on 40s, and a CJ on 42s. The CJ, 4runner, and Taco were a Father and his two sons. We moved along pretty good hitting the following trails:
Shafnner's Hollow (5)
Headbanger (5)
Brandon's Run (3)
Fun Run (3)
Ult Adventure (4)
Four Fingers (4),
Then the CJ started overheating. So after lunch the father and two sons went back to camp to work on the CJ to get it ready for Saturday.
So after lunch I joined in with another group and we hit:
Ingrid's Revenge (5)
Gorge (4)
Ravine (4)
Can Opener (4)
Outlaw (5)
Saturday Morning the Father and Son group rejoined me and they talked to another group at the KOA that were staying at the same KOA who also wanted to join us, so on Saturday I had a much larger group consisting of a 4 runner on 42s, a bobbed Tacos on 40s, a CJ on 42s, a supercharged JK on big stickies, and 4 more JKUs on 40's. Interesting that they all want to be led by a TJ on 35s
.
We ran the following:
Slammer (5)
Can Opener (4)
Gorge (4)
Ravine (4)
Shafnner's Hollow (5)
Lunch (during Lunch I noted my pax side rear axle seal was leaking pretty bad, so I added a qt to it)
Humdinger (4)
Rubicon Ridge (3) with Michael's Way (4)
Rubicon Ridge turned out to be a traffic Jam so it took us pretty long to get through and it was about 4:30 when we finished and we called it day.
The JK has a youtube channel called one_bad_JK and he said he would be posting up some videos. I think he also posted up some pictures on The Great American Crawl FB page.
As always, I didn't take any pictures, but this is what I was able to get a hold of:
View attachment 332357
View attachment 332358
View attachment 332359
View attachment 332360
Post Ride Margarita at the AirBnB:
View attachment 332361
Leaking Axle Seal, After Lunch on Saturday I added a qt and then added another qt soon thereafter:
View attachment 332362
All and All a great trip. I did quickly find out that The Great American Crawl Rockstar group needs ride leaders to babysit everyone who shows up so that they can go off and do there own thing and capture all their media. But it wasn't a bad babysitting gig!!