Trail Discussion: King of the Hammers as a spectator

[Mitch]

Checked out the King of the Hammers race today. A great day for racing with 68' temps and calm breeze. Thousands showed up for this event and the camp areas were slammed! I watched for a while at check point 7 at the bottom of Sledge Hammer trail. After a hour I left to explore a couple of mines just east of this location. But I soon realized that this race utilized all of the Hammer trails including Fissure Mtn. So after bumping into Nick (USMC0369) and Blaine, I stayed there and watched some more of the race. The area that I wanted to explore was also in the race area so I'll go back on Sunday to finish without the race traffic. A great day in the desert!

***I want to post this before the other pictures. I've seen this before and it could have been tragic! A Jeeper with kids that were not belted in, wanted to show off and tried to do some "donuts" or a "power-slide". This just doesn't work with aggressive tires and a short wheel base vehicle! They rolled after a short slide and luckily only bumps, bruises, and a bloodly nose (broken) on the driver. The kids were scared and were hit with non-straped coolers, food, water, and each other. Please be careful and watch for others doing this.

Notice the slide......Roll!



OK, back to the Hammers.....
Johnson Valley Dunes




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Dennis

[Schmo]

Cool pics and write up as always, Mitch! Wow . . . talk about lucky . . . dead kids might have cast a bit of a dark cloud over the event. I even strap Turbo in his car seat when I'm out wheelin . . . can't imagine having a child and not doing the same.

[womb raider 940]

so did anyone get pics of the car-bq near aftershock????????????

[Mitch]

Schmo,

I was expecting the worst when I got there. I saw it happen up ahead and it looked ugly. Nothing was straped down, coolers, a tool box, kids, camp stuff. One kid said he would walk back to camp!

Josh,

Didn't see a "car-b-que" I was around the other side of the mountain.

[womb raider 940]

yeah thats just plain stupid.


I couldnt bring my kids with me cuz I act like a dumbass. If I brought my truck would be a different story.

This is the reason I wanna build a single seat buggy.


I heard on the race radio. car on fire. both drivers out. was on pirate last night and he said they have no video of it-from the live feed chat

[mkjeepers]

[COLOR="Blue"]Great report Mitch. I drove the Sububan out to JV so didn't do much wheelin. I spent most of the time on Sledgehammer - this proved to be a hot-spot.
MK
Link to slideshow.[/COLOR]

http://s304.photobucket.com/albums/n...view=slideshow

[COLOR="Red"]A few lead-ins[/COLOR]






[COLOR="Red"]The winner - Jason Sherer[/COLOR]










[COLOR="red"]Shannon Campbells famous pass on Sledgehammer - he uses the downed vehicle for traction.[/COLOR]

[womb raider 940]

I believe the rancho truck was. dunno fer sure


some nice pics there man. Looks like you were in a good spot




so who is gonna build a 2010 koh car? stu?????

[ECV Jeep]

You know..........the Hammers used to be Jeep trails! Really hard Jeep trails, but trails built with the idea that Jeeps could run them.

[Mitch]

Brian,

Hey you know that if you get stuck I'll strap you through. Like you told me, It's a Jeep, just drive it. LMAO!

Mitch

[ECV Jeep]

Glad I have friends that are willing to help..........oh wait a minute, did you say that you would strap me through without taking any pictures or posting anything on the internet?

[nwoods]

LOL, this looks like a line some of you guys would take:

[miguelitojeep97]

these trails are TORN up now. I just got back tonight.

We actually ran Outerlimits today and drove my freggin Jeep home tonight! Talk about a bad a$$ vehicle. Takes me through some crazy trails and 4 hours back to SD.

I ran sledge on wed. and made it up the waterfall all the guys were rolling over on. The trail is so dug out now its pretty darn tough.

had a great time. trying to upload pics tonight.

[womb raider 940]

cant wait for pics man.

we were gonna run sledge but there were 25 people ahead of us in traffic. so we came back to jack watched a recovery then back to camp