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Got a delivery yesterday. The parts are starting to pile up. Besides the new tires I also picked up a Flex-a-Lite radiator this summer. I've got a few winter projects ahead of me. :yes: Willy
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We made one last trip to the Fortune Creek area before the snow closes it until next year. It was wet, cold, and it even snowed on us, but we had a great time and found a couple more mines. This mine was in great condition. We were told about it last year but weren't able to find it. For a mine this large there was no discernible tailings pile that made finding it difficult. It split several hundred feet in. Looking back towards the entrance. Much of the ventilation ducting was still intact. The view from near Van Epps Pass. This is another mine we found near the old Van Epps town site. I was able to identify the tailings pile and a trail leading down to it on Google Earth. This time we were able to find the beginning of the trail. This was the mostly caved entrance. It connects to the old ventilation shaft at Van Epps that was filled with foam by the forest service a couple of years ago. Water was pouring out of it. Sunday morning Rob's starter decided not to work, so out came the strap to get him lined up with his trailer. Three of us decided to run the Fortune Creek trail. We ran into quite a bit of snow the higher we got. Gallagher Head Lake At the end of the Fortune Creek Trail. More pics here. Willy
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You're biggest issue is lack of penetration. There was almost no weld holding that on. Is your cross member for the rear lower control arms only welded to the bottom of the uniframe? Willy
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Spent yesterday at Elbe Hills for our monthly club run. We had a good turnout and a really good time. Deb drove the first half of the day. Mt. Rainier in the background. After lunch we hit the Swamp Trail. Somebody had been having some fun with a backhoe and we were the first group through. A lot more pics here. Willy
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Our club spent the past weekend volunteering as campground hosts at Evan's Creek. For the second year in a row we had a really good turnout. Saturday I think we had 13 rigs show up and four stuck around for Sunday. I was solo so I only got a few MJ pics. Saturday was foggy almost the entire day. We had a YJ rip the shackle hanger off the frame. After years of abuse I finally put a small hole in a sidewall. Ron and I squeezed into one camp site. Sunday turned out to be beautiful and clear. We ended up with a great view of Mt. Rainier before packing up and heading home. More pics here. Willy
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I switched photo hosting sites and fixed a lot of the links in the trip reports on pages 34 to 37. Willy
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Thanks. This is public, national forest land. The materials are provided by the forest service using state grants. We've also got a great ranger to work with who was there each day. He even joined us on Saturday, his day off. Willy
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Friday night we moved camp to Jim Sprick Park to meet up with Pick Up a Mountain hosted by region 4 of the PNW4WDA. Saturday we had a lot more help thanks to Pick Up a Mountain. This time we were able to break up into three groups - one to finish nailing the planks on the first bridge and add rub rails, one to finish the second bridge, and another to work on the foot bridge. Dan R. and Dan L. joined me to finish the second bridge. Here we have the end plates installed and are securing the planks. Planks installed and the approach filled in with rocks. Rub rails added. Rock added to the other approach. While we were working on the second bridge another group was building the third bridge, a foot bridge at the end of the trail. Here they have one of the sills set and are moving a stringer into place. Once we completed the second bridge we moved to the end to help them with the foot bridge. Setting the stringers. Stringers set and adding planks. Adding rub rails. Finished foot bridge. First bridge with rub rails. A lot more pics here. Willy
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My camp site for Wednesday and Thursday night. Friday we split into two groups. One stayed to finish securing the planks on the first bridge. The other group started on a second bridge further up the trail. You can see some of the remnants of the old bridge. Sills in place. After lunch I did a little exploring. This was supposedly the site of a hotel for very friendly ladies. It looks like there was a shed on the back side that was completely full of firewood when it was abandoned. This is the site for the third bridge, a foot bridge, we would build. Setting the stringers. We temporarily set some of the planks on the stringers before leaving. Jim thought he had run out of gas. In a way he did. If you look close you can see a nice new dent on the top driver side of his gas tank, just below the tailgate and above the frame. Apparently he had backed into something very solid in just the right spot. After transferring 5 gallons of gas from Gary's Jeep we noticed that the fuel line ran right next to that dent and he ripped it apart. A quick splice and he was moving again. The planks in place on the first bridge. Willy
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What are you using for a latch? Thanks, Willy
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Made it back to Copper City to help the Hombres build some bridges. I left Wednesday evening and drove over to the Bumping Lake Campground where we stayed Wednesday and Thursday night. Stopped off at Chinook Pass on the way. Thursday morning we loaded up the trailer with rocks for the approaches and made our way to the trail. The repaired wash out on Deep Creek Road. The beginning of the Copper City trail on Deep Creek Road. Buld site of the first bridge. It's on a pretty tight turn. The forest service has already dug out and reinforced the approaches on each side as they had washed away over the years. Digging trenches for the sills. Sills in place. Placing the stringers. Setting the final stringer. Temporarily set the planks on top so that Gary and Jerry could drive back across. Willy
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I noticed this pic in the latest copy of JP. Willy
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No, I wasn't really bothered by it. Willy
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Returned to Rimrock this weekend for our club run. It ended up just Ron and I but we had a good time, even though Saturday ended up being a very long day wedging ourselves through trees. We did a little sight seeing on the way. We stopped at Clear Creek Falls on highway 12. This is looking towards Rimrock Lake from Clear Creek Falls. Clear Creek Falls Upper Clear Creek Falls Our camp site for the weekend. We weren't far from Pucker Ridge so we stopped by to check it out. Ron wasn't interested in going past this point. :hmm: After crossing and turning around. After lunch we made our way up to Short & Dirty Ridge. Mt. Rainier in the clouds. Blue Slide Lookout looking towards Mt. Rainier. After this we hit a trail that was very narrow. A short line on the map turned into several hours of negotiating between tightly spaced trees. We were all pretty worn out and ready to head back to camp by the end of it. Here we are at one of the few open spots along the trail - Jeeping Nomad Meadow. Sunday we did some leisurely exploring around Rimrock Lake. Clear Lake Falls. On the way home. More pics here. Willy
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me too. i always look forward to yours posts. Thanks! I'm looking forward to returning to Pucker Ridge one of these days. :brows: Willy
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For the third time I joined the Rainier Scramblers on their annual Stag Run. This year we went to Rimrock. We lost a couple of rigs within the first half mile of the first trail, but the rest of the trip was great. Tom demonstrating his displeasure with his Jeep's cooling problems. Shortly after Tom decided to turn back Brian's rear driveshaft decided to depart from his XJ. I think the spring wrap from this broken block led to the u-joint straps ripping apart on the rear yoke. With those two rigs down we had nine left that made their way up to Narrowneck Gap. The views on the way were incredible. This is Mt. Adams in the background. Mt. Rainier the other direction. Mt. Adams from on top of Narrowneck Gap. It is hard to make out but Mt. Hood was also visible behind Mt. Adams. Mt. Rainier from on top of Narrowneck Gap. We camped at Blue Lake Saturday night. Sunday morning we made our way to Blue Slide Lookout. Mt. Rainier in the background. Mt. Adams Next to Long Lake at the bottom of Louie Way Gap. We started Pucker Ridge before a few in the group decided not to go past this. More pics here. I'm already looking forward to going back this weekend with my club. :yes: Willy
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Spent the last weekend staffing check point two of the PNW4WDA's region two first annual fun run over the Naches Pass. Only had a chance to take a few pictures. Base camp for the weekend off FS 70. Check point #2 More pics here. Willy
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I'm just going up an inch in the front. The rear should clear easily and I think the front should clear as is, but since I bobbed the bed I noticed it has a rake to the front. I've got some 3/4" spacers that I'm going to swap for 1 3/4" spacers that should help to level it. Willy
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They are Creepy Crawlers. I wanted Trepadors, but they don't make a 37 for a 15" rim. Willy
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37s, radials are for mall crawlers. :P Willy
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Got a delivery today! Willy
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Thanks! There is still a lot of work to do. I would like to get back out there again this year, but it seems like all my weekends are very busy for the foreseeable future. Willy
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Spent a great weekend working on trails in the Fortune Creek area over the weekend. There were a lot of downed trees and wash outs this year. We didn't make as much progress as we hoped, but overall I think we got a lot accomplished. Our camp site Friday night towards the end of 4W305. Yes, there is a road there. We cleared a lot of overgrown brush and trimmed a lot of tree limbs. A couple pics of the wash outs towards the end of 4W305. It is hard to tell from the pictures, but there was a lot of material that had washed down the mountain on to the trail. Winching a log into place to help build a wall for the road bed. After we moved tons of rock by hand it was time for a test drive. We were pretty wiped out after that, so we decided to pack up camp and move over to the Fortune Creek trail. Saturday night's camp site. Sunday morning we continued to the end of the Fortune Creek trail. This was a pretty cool find shortly up the mountain from the intersection of the Fortune Creek trail and Hawkins Mountain trail. It is an old dam for the Dolphin Mill that is still incredibly intact. It isn't so great at holding back water anymore, but somebody put a lot of work into it. Hawkins Mountain After lunch Sunday we planned to make it to the old Van Epps town site, but a lot of downed trees blocked the trail. After a couple of hours of chopping and moving the downed trees we were all exhausted. We didn't quite make it to Van Epps, but we made it a lot easier for the next group if they want to clear out the rest. The view on the way out. More pics here. Willy
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A friend gave me a hand by removing the broken studs and machining a key into the steering arm and knuckle with his mill. Hopefully this will help take a lot of the side loads off the studs. Before with broken studs. Key machined into the high steer arm. Key way machined into the knuckle. Willy
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Saturday, trail day 9, the last day of Trail Jam we led a group across Naches Pass. I brought up the rear and only took a few pictures. A lot more pics of the entire trip can be found here. Willy