Our group of 33 for this year. Last year was 75. The highest ever was 250 people.
This is a family tradition that has been going on since the 60’s. A toast to those who went before us and for those who will come after us.
The Smudge pot ran amok.
apparently it was overfilled and boiled over. They were all circled around and scattered pretty quickly but contained the overflow and let it burn out. It’s under control now but they haven’t regrouped arond the smudge.
I had to do that with my grandson on Monday when he ate it on his dirt bike in the desert. Fortunately I had a friend who is an EMT sitting in the front passenger seat tending to my grandson who was laying in the back seat while I drove the 45 minutes to the ER.
Once they released him my JT was...
We’re out at Lucerne Valley for the week until Saturday.
Drove out yesterday, got camp set up, and my grandson took a hard crash on his Kawi and had to take him to the ER with a concussion. Once they confirmed he was ok except for the concussion I took him home for recovery and went back out to...
True there’s not a lot of local get together on this forum. Definitely rides going on but none organized here. I find more action in the SoCal section of the wrangler forum for local rides.
https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/forum/
I sometimes just get out on my own too.
I could have used one of those a couple Saturdays ago. A Holcomb Creek Trail boulder jumped out and bit one of my valve stems off at the base of the cap, taking the guts with it.
Fortunately I was right at the end of the western gatekeeper and hobbled to the road to change the tire. With one of...
I have 35x11.5x17 wild peak RTs on my stock wheels. The max recommended width on the 17x7.5 factory wheels is 11.5 but people have gone to 12.5 width and had no problems.
The Apex Autolynx are definitely easier to use and the manuals can sometimes be hard to get the pin back in but for only using several times a year the savings for the manuals might be worth it. I went with the Apex because I use them a lot.