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Frank Raines: April 28th, 2002
Participants:
| Don - '78 Bronco |
Bill - '97 Chevy |
| Tauna - '89 Cherokee |
Dave - '91 Bronco |
| Anthony - '92 Explorer |
Mark - '71 Bronco |
| Brett - '98 TJ |
Marty - '85 Toyota |
| Steve - '89 Toyota |
Ryan - '84 4Runner |
| Wally - '88 YJ |
Rob - '97 TJ |
| Derrick '98 TJ |
John - '89 Bronco |
As soon as we arrived at the park and were getting everyone
together, we noticed a yellow speck on the nastiest hill climb at the
park. We couldn't really tell if it was a stuck sand rail or a rolled
jeep. A guy in an old CJ-5 told us that it was indeed a rollover and we
hiked up to see what was going on. Once climbing up the hill, we saw there
was another jeep with problems of its own in the form of a broken rear
driveshaft and a damaged input shaft at the transfer case. The red jeep
was winched down to a turn around and was able to idle down the hill. The
yellow jeep was in bad shape, too. It blew a front driveshaft and people
were saying it had no brakes. The yellow Willys was running street lock
bead lock simulators, which didn't help much since the front driver's side
tire was off the rim. An early Bronco from San Jose was able to anchor
itself to a tree on the steep incline and winch the yellow Jeep back on
all four tires.
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After
all of the watching, we were ready to do some 'wheeling of our own. We
hiked back down to the trucks and set out for the creek trail.
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It's
always hard to cover a trail report at Frank Raines because the group is
stretched so far out along a little trail. Marty went tearing into the
trail, passing me at the entrance, going about 25 mph.
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