cewtwo
New member
As the unofficial Colorado Chapter of JEEZ.COM, We were able to get together to run a mountain trail in Colorado!
Charles and Charles met on Sunday morning to drive Yankee Hill. We met in a parking lot at Wadsworth and Hampden. We headed out for Central City via I-70 and the Central City Parkway.
This time it was Jeepster357 and cewtwo. Charles and Liza drove their jeep. I drove the Mighty YJ with Tom and Molly.
We didn’t get to Central City. We turned on the Nevadaville Road and stopped at the upper cemetery on Bald Mountain road to air down and get ready.
Charles and Charles while airing down
It was an interesting ride. The snow melt is definitely going on in the foothills of Colorado. There were huge puddles of water in the road. Fun to drive through!
cewtwo driving through water.
Jeepster357 doing some splashing!
Once we got past most of the residential area and headed up the hill, we found an older Chevy pickup mired at the side of the road. They were working at getting it free with stretch tow straps and a come-a-long. The Mighty YJ has a winch, so I offered to assist.
We had to reset the winch anchor point a couple of times. Finally, we got a good strong pull going and the truck came out. During the process, his carb back-fired and it and the “Fire Resistant†hood cover caught on fire. It took two different uses of a CO2 fire extinguisher to finally put it out.
His other damage was a run down battery and a broken rear drive shaft. After the pull, we did some trail cleanup. His friends pulled him alongside the trail so we could get by. When we cam back down, all of them were gone, so they were able to get him out again.
The higher we went, the more snow we found on the trail.
The video shows conditions on the upper mountain.
(Clicking will take you off-site)
It was a wet, soft snow. All of us had stepped through the crust and gotten our legs and shoes wet at the side of the trail. Jeepster357 had far better traction with his fairly new tires then I did with my older MTRs. I used my winch a lot.
We did not make it to the top of the trail, but it won’t be long and it will be blazed.
We turned around and went out the same way we went in. We aired up in the area of the 3 major cemeteries above Central City.
Charlie, Tom, Molly and Charles (Liza took the picture! Thanks, Liza!)
It was a lot of fun. On our way back to the highway, we stopped at a casino and had a great buffet Mother’s Day dinner!
Charles and Charles met on Sunday morning to drive Yankee Hill. We met in a parking lot at Wadsworth and Hampden. We headed out for Central City via I-70 and the Central City Parkway.
This time it was Jeepster357 and cewtwo. Charles and Liza drove their jeep. I drove the Mighty YJ with Tom and Molly.
We didn’t get to Central City. We turned on the Nevadaville Road and stopped at the upper cemetery on Bald Mountain road to air down and get ready.
It was an interesting ride. The snow melt is definitely going on in the foothills of Colorado. There were huge puddles of water in the road. Fun to drive through!
Once we got past most of the residential area and headed up the hill, we found an older Chevy pickup mired at the side of the road. They were working at getting it free with stretch tow straps and a come-a-long. The Mighty YJ has a winch, so I offered to assist.
We had to reset the winch anchor point a couple of times. Finally, we got a good strong pull going and the truck came out. During the process, his carb back-fired and it and the “Fire Resistant†hood cover caught on fire. It took two different uses of a CO2 fire extinguisher to finally put it out.
His other damage was a run down battery and a broken rear drive shaft. After the pull, we did some trail cleanup. His friends pulled him alongside the trail so we could get by. When we cam back down, all of them were gone, so they were able to get him out again.
The higher we went, the more snow we found on the trail.
The video shows conditions on the upper mountain.
(Clicking will take you off-site)
It was a wet, soft snow. All of us had stepped through the crust and gotten our legs and shoes wet at the side of the trail. Jeepster357 had far better traction with his fairly new tires then I did with my older MTRs. I used my winch a lot.
We did not make it to the top of the trail, but it won’t be long and it will be blazed.
We turned around and went out the same way we went in. We aired up in the area of the 3 major cemeteries above Central City.
Charlie, Tom, Molly and Charles (Liza took the picture! Thanks, Liza!)
It was a lot of fun. On our way back to the highway, we stopped at a casino and had a great buffet Mother’s Day dinner!
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