Jessica My Little B...tch

[JoeLAW]

24 minutes ago, 89 MJ said:

I do! One of these years I’ll need to head up to EJS with my MJ

Thanks much! And yes man, you definitively have to go! Yes it is expensive, yes it is hectic, yes it's quite the adventure just getting there, but it is sooo worth it. Heck, maybe next year, it will be the 60th anniversary  And who knows what might be in store for then. If you consider yourself a Jeeper I think it's one of those you absolutely gotta do at least once in your lifetime. 10 out of 10 recommend! 

[JoeLAW]

Well, this brings us to my last day of the 50th EJS back in 2016, "Big Saturday!" Which consists of all the trail groups getting together in between the main streets of Moab, and everyone leaving at the same time, making a big ol ruckus/parade through main street. It was a chilly morning, the buddy I took was feeling a bit tired and did not want to join me on this trail. So I was solo for this one, we had to meet next to the Tire Pros on Main St pretty early, and I think I was the 3rd one there. Here come the pics and captions to most of them.

 

 

This was our group line up, which was a nice assortment of mildly built rigs, 33" seemed to be the standard tire size, some looked smaller, a couple were a bit bigger but nothing to be nervous about like on the 1st trail I did.

 

 

While waiting there, I finally had a little time to check out this little crawler that was For Sale. Pretty weird build IMO, specially for how narrow those axles were. It almost seemed like they were copying a side x side chassis and putting solid axles on it. The axles were almost as narrow as a CJ-5 stock axle, sitting on 37" tires and the wheelbase of about a TJ I would guess. Neat that it had an Atlas T-Case and Cummins Diesel engine, not sure which one but it had the emblems and the engine had an injection pump. 

 

 

The trail I had signed up for was "Copper Ridge" we took off North on HWY 191 for about 10-15 maybe 20ish miles and got into the desert turning East getting on a couple of Dirt Roads, and eventually getting on the trail. It was a pretty big group, I want to say over 30 vehicles, so the leader was rushing a bit to keep the group rolling along and not waste a whole lot of time by stopping often. Once we got on a pretty large piece of slickrock we pretty much just snaked through it to make sure we regrouped. 

 

 

After that quick regroup we finally stopped for the 1st time, to stretch legs, the one's that didn't air down before it was their chance of airing down. At this point the trail was pretty fun OK views, hardly any obstacles but still entertaining. 

 

 

From there we were just navigating through mainly unmantained dirtroads. I was riding behind a YJ that was like a time capsule from the 90s 4" lift on 33s no lockers, nothing really special. It almost looked like they had taken it out from storage and took it out there. Full family inside of it, it really reminded me of my childhood since one of my uncles got a YJ on some sort of deal it was black, 4" lift, 33x10.5 R15 Super Swamper TSL SXs Rear lunchbox locker, 5sp, 4cyl. That little Jeep went through a whole lot of places it had no business being at. Anyways it was very fun following that little Jeep since the flex is very limited with leaf springs and having open diffs made the simplest climbs and little dried up creek crossings interesting for him. 

 

 

After the dirt roads we ventured into tighter more interesting trails. Ending at a place where there were dyno tracks! Which was pretty cool here are those pics.

 

 

After checking out the dyno tracks that was pretty much the end of the trail. We were quite a ways north on HWY 191 about 5 or 7 miles from I-70. So it was a nice drive back to town from there. This marks the end of my 50th EJS Experience. Hope you guys enjoy, now on to more tech and upgrade related posts.