• Jack-it Night: April 2024 RS Meeting Hey Guest: Wed. April 3rd is the next Rising Sun meeting, and you won't want to miss it. We're doing our annual offroad recovery equipment demonstration and trail skills training aka "Jack It Night." Meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. (early) Click here for all the details.

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All of us are off the 'Con, except Robbie who left after we did. A good time was had by all! :clap: Big Orange suffered major carnage. Broke all the knuckle studs on both sides. Driver's side Friday in camp and passenger's side today on Cadillac Hill coming out. Tied up exiting traffic for over an hour. Luckily Mudrak was on the spot. More and pictures to follow. :D
 

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glad to hear everyone is out. sounds like a legendary trip!
 

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Let the pictures begin......................
 

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60WAG will be your best bet for pictures first. He flew home this afternoon. The rest of us won't be home till Monday night.
 
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Wish I could have made it this year. It looks like from what I've seen on Pirate and Ih8mud that there was more damage this year than year's past. The whole idea that Cadillac Hill is the easy way out is a false premise.
 

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Glad to hear you all had fun. Can't wait to see some pics and videos!

:thumb:
 

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Some pix from the trip:
1. Mike coming down a ledge.
2. Kevin hoping to avoid some body damage.
3. Matt taking his rig swimming.
4. Ken climbing some steps.
5. Jack guiding Tim through little rocks.
 

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More Pix:
1. Mark Algazy performing some carburator magic at the campsite.
2. Kevin Kuhn assisting with Chris's FIRST stud replacement project.
3. The Marauder's bar on Friday night.
4. Chris tackling Hatfield Hill after the carb and stud repair job.
 

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More pix:
1. Tim descending Big Sluice
2. Gary Kardum helping Chris with an alignment problem.
3. Dave headed toward Buck Island. This shot gives a good view of the scenery we had to suffer with.
4. A group pose of the rigs.
5. My new 4Runner.............................Yeah right.
 

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Big Orange suffered major carnage. Broke all the knuckle studs on both sides. Driver's side Friday in camp and passenger's side today on Cadillac Hill coming out

Did you ever recheck the torque on them? Once they loosen up they shear.

Nice pics Bruce :cheers:
 

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I got home about two hours ago. i'll post up some pictures latter. It was an awesome trip with an awesome group of people
 

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um, how do you shear ALL the knuckle studs?
 

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we're sitting at mom's café in salina. I left quite a bit of rare green paint on cadillac hill... pics will have to wait until home though.

be on the colorado connection, we'll be listening
 

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we're sitting at mom's café in salina. I left quite a bit of rare green paint on cadillac hill... pics will have to wait until home though.

be on the colorado connection, we'll be listening

when you get home, the case of beer sitting next to your propane tank is from me....unless Martin stole it!

T
 

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I'll do more latter, but here is a group shot

It was an amazing trail, but not as amazing as the people I ran the trail with:beer:
 

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That is so cool that you were able to get such a big group together to go. I remember last year I ran into Dave Brown at the Rubithon and he said that he hoped to have a big group come up next year. I'm going to try to make it next year, either that or Cruise Moab. I was hoping for SnT this fall but I figured it out and it would be like $650 per day to go. I can only go for a couple of days and the travel time and fuel just don't make it cost effective. I flew down for the TTR event in TX in January and that is most likely the only TLCA event I'll make it to this year. But I'm happy dad again. He's 5 weeks already. By next year at CM he'll be ready to hit the trails down there.
 

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Here is one of me on the way to Buck, Tim through the water, Cheeseman making it look easy, Matt Farr getting ready to go Down and Knuckles . . . I mean Chris before any breakage happened making this line look easy
 

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Tim and Mike in front on the way out on Cadillac Hill

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I have plenty of video of Dave and Dan and we plan on doing a group video with everybodies inputs.
 

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