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Well got a call today. Rick and Dave heading to Miller. I first said no then thought to myself I dont wanna sit around all day. So I went.
It had rained recently up there and was water in places. The beginning had some water about 50 feet in and was pretty slippery. After getting up we realized it was gonna be an interesting day.
so we came to yellow jacket. i have never done this section of the trail and wanted to try. Well the rock section was gone. No big rocks there anymore.
But there was plenty of mud pits. Quick sand, once you got in them. And here is where the fun started.
a tree fell on my jeep when I was driving by it. Got hit with twigs from it. Nothing damaged.
I preceeded to the end of the trail where it dead ends. it got pretty rocky towards the end and at times had some problems.
but got thru it and back up. as we were trying to leave yellow jacket the giant mud holes were pretty nasty. I popped 2 beads and had to get winched out. we got lucky and popped both beads back on but one tire was so full of water and mud I had to run it. My spare was in my truck.
We ran into a broke down International. He broke both motor mounts and it looked like his engine was sitting on a crossmember. the oil pan looked crushed.
We offered him assistance but he had things under control. He hung with us and made up miller.
It was already getting dark going up miller. When we ran into a group of about 15 or so. Trucks, suvs, and jeeps. A couple of times I believe they were broke and stuck. dunno which.
the mud in the tire was good to get off the trail but once on a paved road the unbalance was not drivable.Worse then death wobble. I used Ricks spare to get to castaic. they have 24 hour tire service there. They cleaned out the tire and mounted it back on.
I got some videos I will put up later. Awesome times and thanks to Dave and Rick helping me get my junk off the trail.
It had rained recently up there and was water in places. The beginning had some water about 50 feet in and was pretty slippery. After getting up we realized it was gonna be an interesting day.
so we came to yellow jacket. i have never done this section of the trail and wanted to try. Well the rock section was gone. No big rocks there anymore.
But there was plenty of mud pits. Quick sand, once you got in them. And here is where the fun started.
a tree fell on my jeep when I was driving by it. Got hit with twigs from it. Nothing damaged.
I preceeded to the end of the trail where it dead ends. it got pretty rocky towards the end and at times had some problems.
but got thru it and back up. as we were trying to leave yellow jacket the giant mud holes were pretty nasty. I popped 2 beads and had to get winched out. we got lucky and popped both beads back on but one tire was so full of water and mud I had to run it. My spare was in my truck.
We ran into a broke down International. He broke both motor mounts and it looked like his engine was sitting on a crossmember. the oil pan looked crushed.
We offered him assistance but he had things under control. He hung with us and made up miller.
It was already getting dark going up miller. When we ran into a group of about 15 or so. Trucks, suvs, and jeeps. A couple of times I believe they were broke and stuck. dunno which.
the mud in the tire was good to get off the trail but once on a paved road the unbalance was not drivable.Worse then death wobble. I used Ricks spare to get to castaic. they have 24 hour tire service there. They cleaned out the tire and mounted it back on.
I got some videos I will put up later. Awesome times and thanks to Dave and Rick helping me get my junk off the trail.
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