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A friend of mine Billy and his Rubicon(new MJR member) joined me for a trip to Cleghorn. I took pictures and have posted them for viewing (look below for link)
http://picasaweb.google.com/joseph.w...CleghornJune6#
I did a weather check before going. We were looking forward to a 70 degree day. We met a group 3 cherokee's, 1 real jeep :-) at the trailhead. We joined up with these guys later in the ride.
We were anxious to get up the hill and got to the first turn out at powerline tower. We played on that liitle hill and I had my first real chance to take some time to work on technique with my toy (clutch, brake/clutch/gas, gas,brake, clutch. I can see why some buy Automatics! We hit those short little steep mounds and this defintely built confidence in the jeep abilities.
We started to see some clouds rolling in as we got higher on the hill, temp dropped pretty quickly. We immediately jumped into the first turn out chute off the fireroad. These trails start very gradual and allow you get comfortable before dropping you into fun stuff. My friend Billy took the lead and drove straight into the Notch. I was on radio telling him to turn cuz i was feeling my sphincter tightening. He decided after looking at it from the bottom, he was goign to make a run at it. I grabbed my camera and ran up to take photos and spot for him. I found myself shaking my head and mumbling like the rain man ("I get my shorts at KMart, Wopner's at 3") The Notch can get be hairy if you do not know what you are doing. I have never attempted it before and stayed in the fire road in past.
Billy is a much more expereinced Jeeper than myself and picked a line and stuck to it. I got some cool photos of him coming up. We found ourselves getting some great poser shots. He tackled the Notch and I followed shortly after. I did bypass the really hairy stuff due to inexperience. Billy promised to get me a Gucchi handbag if kept that up :-)
Our new found friends joined us and we joined forces for a while. They definitely had more trail exeprience than us.
We found ourselves climbing into the clouds and visibility got terrible. I was amazed with the amount of wild flowers on the hills. It was quite a site to see in some areas (see photos) We continued the ascent and found a few of the step ups on the hills very difficult. In one step up i found myself with one wheel high in the air. I was puckering and leaning (great photos)
The descent can drop very quickly. He took our time and had lots of fun. We broke off from our new friends at Pucker hill.
The day was a success, no breakage, met new friends and got to know my new toy
http://picasaweb.google.com/joseph.w...CleghornJune6#
http://picasaweb.google.com/joseph.w...CleghornJune6#
I did a weather check before going. We were looking forward to a 70 degree day. We met a group 3 cherokee's, 1 real jeep :-) at the trailhead. We joined up with these guys later in the ride.
We were anxious to get up the hill and got to the first turn out at powerline tower. We played on that liitle hill and I had my first real chance to take some time to work on technique with my toy (clutch, brake/clutch/gas, gas,brake, clutch. I can see why some buy Automatics! We hit those short little steep mounds and this defintely built confidence in the jeep abilities.
We started to see some clouds rolling in as we got higher on the hill, temp dropped pretty quickly. We immediately jumped into the first turn out chute off the fireroad. These trails start very gradual and allow you get comfortable before dropping you into fun stuff. My friend Billy took the lead and drove straight into the Notch. I was on radio telling him to turn cuz i was feeling my sphincter tightening. He decided after looking at it from the bottom, he was goign to make a run at it. I grabbed my camera and ran up to take photos and spot for him. I found myself shaking my head and mumbling like the rain man ("I get my shorts at KMart, Wopner's at 3") The Notch can get be hairy if you do not know what you are doing. I have never attempted it before and stayed in the fire road in past.
Billy is a much more expereinced Jeeper than myself and picked a line and stuck to it. I got some cool photos of him coming up. We found ourselves getting some great poser shots. He tackled the Notch and I followed shortly after. I did bypass the really hairy stuff due to inexperience. Billy promised to get me a Gucchi handbag if kept that up :-)
Our new found friends joined us and we joined forces for a while. They definitely had more trail exeprience than us.
We found ourselves climbing into the clouds and visibility got terrible. I was amazed with the amount of wild flowers on the hills. It was quite a site to see in some areas (see photos) We continued the ascent and found a few of the step ups on the hills very difficult. In one step up i found myself with one wheel high in the air. I was puckering and leaning (great photos)
The descent can drop very quickly. He took our time and had lots of fun. We broke off from our new friends at Pucker hill.
The day was a success, no breakage, met new friends and got to know my new toy
http://picasaweb.google.com/joseph.w...CleghornJune6#
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