Trail Report/Photo Section/GPS CoordinatesBeen offroad with your FJ? Tell us about it and post up any photos or GPS coordinates so others can possibly follow in your footsteps!
So last month the wife and I did a week long trip from Vegas to South Lake Tahoe along Highway 395. Camping in a different spot each night, it was a really great trip. Up off highway 50 we hooked up with friends doing the Barrett Lake Jeep trail. It is a rock crawlers paradise. With my friend coaching I did the first hundred yards as a test to see how the FJ would handle it. Then turned around as the rest of the group was arriving the next day. The FJ did great and came out with nothing more than a couple scratches, but I almost rolled it on the way down. I decided to pass on the whole 6 mile trail run because it is still a new vehicle and we had 500 miles to go back to Vegas.
Anyway the wife had been shooting video the whole trip and edited together a couple minute video. The first half is alot of artsy FJ stuff and the second half is the Barrett lake trail. I hope the links work out, she did two versions I guess Quick time and Windows Media.
Thanks, I'll pass along the feedback. She is really getting into the whole thing with Premier pro. She has a whole stack of stuff she has been working on and work is starting to throw editing jobs her way as well.
the trail is a pretty dense 3.4 (..or so) miles each way (trail dead ends and you return on same trail) with some gnarly rock gardens and off-camber climbs/turns...good armor is required..every vehicle in our group 'kissed' rocks in one place or more, and saw plenty of other vehicle carnage/repair in progress.....awesome trail, great lake, nice hike up to the plane wreck site...definitely not a beginner trail, on par (IMHO) with Rubicon in terms of skill level required..although much shorter....good for modification test runs. Another 'dubious' nicety is that it's only open a very short season..late August (when the rangers deem the trail dry enough) and closes some time late Sept..Oct..? keeps the trail from getting too much abuse... it's a dusty one, though! I liked the comments from various trail books: Faster to walk...IT IS!
Cool Video! Thanks for the reminder!
-Mark
P.S. If you checked my link, and read the photo/carnage descriptions....my 'unknown' drive-train noise manifested itself as a broken right rear axle shaft...finally gave way on the Rubicon Tough Trail!
So last month the wife and I did a week long trip from Vegas to South Lake Tahoe along Highway 395. Camping in a different spot each night, it was a really great trip. Up off highway 50 we hooked up with friends doing the Barrett Lake Jeep trail. It is a rock crawlers paradise. With my friend coaching I did the first hundred yards as a test to see how the FJ would handle it. Then turned around as the rest of the group was arriving the next day. The FJ did great and came out with nothing more than a couple scratches, but I almost rolled it on the way down. I decided to pass on the whole 6 mile trail run because it is still a new vehicle and we had 500 miles to go back to Vegas.
Anyway the wife had been shooting video the whole trip and edited together a couple minute video. The first half is alot of artsy FJ stuff and the second half is the Barrett lake trail. I hope the links work out, she did two versions I guess Quick time and Windows Media.
the trail is a pretty dense 3.4 (..or so) miles each way (trail dead ends and you return on same trail) with some gnarly rock gardens and off-camber climbs/turns...good armor is required..every vehicle in our group 'kissed' rocks in one place or more, and saw plenty of other vehicle carnage/repair in progress.....awesome trail, great lake, nice hike up to the plane wreck site...definitely not a beginner trail, on par (IMHO) with Rubicon in terms of skill level required..although much shorter....good for modification test runs. Another 'dubious' nicety is that it's only open a very short season..late August (when the rangers deem the trail dry enough) and closes some time late Sept..Oct..? keeps the trail from getting too much abuse... it's a dusty one, though! I liked the comments from various trail books: Faster to walk...IT IS!
Cool Video! Thanks for the reminder!
-Mark
P.S. If you checked my link, and read the photo/carnage descriptions....my 'unknown' drive-train noise manifested itself as a broken right rear axle shaft...finally gave way on the Rubicon Tough Trail!
It is one heck of a trail. The wife and I hiked 3 miles or so in to watch my friends come out. I'm not sure what obstacle we met them but it was hairy. Good times.
Great photos BTW, I did not know there was old wreckage up there, we would have backpacked in and spent the night with everyone Iheard it was a pretty good party.
It is one heck of a trail. The wife and I hiked 3 miles or so in to watch my friends come out. I'm not sure what obstacle we met them but it was hairy. Good times.
Great photos BTW, I did not know there was old wreckage up there, we would have backpacked in and spent the night with everyone Iheard it was a pretty good party.
Pretty good times indeed! A real fun and mellow crowd... except for the drunk guy that was cold, got in his truck, started it, and let it idle for the next 4 hours... great adventure!
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Pretty good times indeed! A real fun and mellow crowd... except for the drunk guy that was cold, got in his truck, started it, and let it idle for the next 4 hours... great adventure!
Umm...by any chance was that person my current roommate???? LOL.....
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