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Well, a fellow MJR member was out in Az for some work. 4xfiend (Justin) sent us a message and asked if we'd care to show him around a local trail. I was itching to run Lower Terminator again but the misses wasn't settling for that. She had her heart set on Sunflower Mine, a very beautiful trail with every type (less sand) of 4x4 terrain you could want. It's rated difficult. I've made it on 31s with my shackle lift, but it was stressful and exhausting. This time out I was on 35s and 6.5" of lift, Justin on 35s with w 4" lift, and my local buddy Carl on 37s with 6"s lift on his LJ. Once Carl got out of bed and got his guys started on work we were off to the Sunflower Mine Loop.
We hit the air down pretty late, about 10a. I'm sure I'll have more photos later but I'm in Vegas now and in dire need of a Blackjack table
Kalah loves to take photos without me knowing, this is on the drive along the shelf headed down into the canyon that houses Sunflower.
Once you have chewed enough dust for a life time you hit rocks, creeks, water and fun.
Kalah snapped this with my phone while we were moving along, I think it turned out well. (Justin's TJ)
No Jeep trip is complete with out a few posers, at least in this case I like the poser
We stopped for a moment after playing around in the water, at this point we made a crucial error in judgment... We decided that the creek bed to the right of the trail was passable. We had walked all 50 yards of it and thought we could make it. Justin said "I'll go first since I'm already lined up for it". This would cost him an axle and turn signal...
Justin "already lined up for it"
I was happy to watch.
All was going well....
But then!
After this we hit only a couple more obstacles and we were out of the trail onto dirt, but the fun doesn't end with the rocks. The dirt shelf road is washed out with lots of frame twisters. The TJ/LJ (ya know, the none hip guys) rolled through with no issues. My YJ with open diffs had to be a bit more choosey on lines but we made it through; well until the last crack but I'll explain that soon.
After we'd all played in the crack, I decided I should drive the crack; "it's just a notch right?"
This was taken right before I screwed up (sounds like Hump N Bump again)
Then I turned passenger about 2 feet too early and this was the result.
Getting in and out reminded me of a stock car; except my butt was in dirt as I crawled through the window.
Even with Justin having a busted passenger front axle he was a champ and gave me a pull out. His D44 ARB rear for sure helped out on the loose dirt. We decided we'd had enough fun for the day and headed home. All in all a great day of wheeling. More pics to come soon, but probably after the Superbowl.
We hit the air down pretty late, about 10a. I'm sure I'll have more photos later but I'm in Vegas now and in dire need of a Blackjack table
Kalah loves to take photos without me knowing, this is on the drive along the shelf headed down into the canyon that houses Sunflower.
Once you have chewed enough dust for a life time you hit rocks, creeks, water and fun.
Kalah snapped this with my phone while we were moving along, I think it turned out well. (Justin's TJ)
No Jeep trip is complete with out a few posers, at least in this case I like the poser
We stopped for a moment after playing around in the water, at this point we made a crucial error in judgment... We decided that the creek bed to the right of the trail was passable. We had walked all 50 yards of it and thought we could make it. Justin said "I'll go first since I'm already lined up for it". This would cost him an axle and turn signal...
Justin "already lined up for it"
I was happy to watch.
All was going well....
But then!
After this we hit only a couple more obstacles and we were out of the trail onto dirt, but the fun doesn't end with the rocks. The dirt shelf road is washed out with lots of frame twisters. The TJ/LJ (ya know, the none hip guys) rolled through with no issues. My YJ with open diffs had to be a bit more choosey on lines but we made it through; well until the last crack but I'll explain that soon.
After we'd all played in the crack, I decided I should drive the crack; "it's just a notch right?"
This was taken right before I screwed up (sounds like Hump N Bump again)
Then I turned passenger about 2 feet too early and this was the result.
Getting in and out reminded me of a stock car; except my butt was in dirt as I crawled through the window.
Even with Justin having a busted passenger front axle he was a champ and gave me a pull out. His D44 ARB rear for sure helped out on the loose dirt. We decided we'd had enough fun for the day and headed home. All in all a great day of wheeling. More pics to come soon, but probably after the Superbowl.
Nice trip. Gotta get over there to join you sometime.
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