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Title: February 17-18 Choccoloco Mountain - Pictures, videos, carnage & lies
Post by: Trailabite on February 19, 2023, 01:14:49 PM
I hope everyone had a good time this weekend. If you have pictures, videos, or stories, please feel free to post them here. See y'all on the next trail.

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Title: Re: February 17-18 Choccoloco Mountain - Pictures, videos, carnage & lies
Post by: patman on February 19, 2023, 02:18:37 PM
Great seeing so many new faces out there! I don't think I had a chance to meet everyone, but hopefully you all had fun and will return for a future ride.

Here's a few pics from our group. I think only one of us had any breakage, which was unfortunately on the first trail of the first day, but I'll let him talk about it.

And happy birthday to Justin! We celebrated by having the waitress slap him in the face with whipped cream Friday night :)

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Title: Re: February 17-18 Choccoloco Mountain - Pictures, videos, carnage & lies
Post by: tcdawg on February 19, 2023, 04:21:32 PM
Great pics!!

Hated to miss it... hopefully Yukon will get right with their warranty and I'll make the next ride
Title: Re: February 17-18 Choccoloco Mountain - Pictures, videos, carnage & lies
Post by: Kadavenport on February 19, 2023, 04:24:53 PM
I think I get the dunce hat this trip, I broke twice this weekend: U-joint in the front passenger axle shaft, and then pulled/bent my diff cover enough to start leaking. But such is life breaking in the Jeep  after a major change like an axle swap. Still getting used to the lockers, wider axles, and a bigger pumpkin in the back. But unlocked the hubs and rode in 2nd off the trail after @Will helped me get winched out of the muddy mess I broke in on Friday. Oreilly’s had the spicer u-joints in stock and I had it swapped in by 8pm. A BFH fixed the diff cover, and I had extra oil packed. I’ll post up some pics in a bit. Thanks all the guys who pulled cable, were spotters and led us on the trails.
Title: Re: February 17-18 Choccoloco Mountain - Pictures, videos, carnage & lies
Post by: jd30005 on February 19, 2023, 08:16:59 PM
My ring gear in the rear end decided to rain on my weekend on Friday on the obstacle at the top of rebel ridge.  I ended up riding passenger with Rob for the rest of Friday and Sat and had a great time.  Just a few teeth missing on the rear...



Title: Re: February 17-18 Choccoloco Mountain - Pictures, videos, carnage & lies
Post by: patman on February 19, 2023, 09:51:37 PM
I think I get the dunce hat this trip, I broke twice this weekend: U-joint in the front passenger axle shaft, and then pulled/bent my diff cover enough to start leaking. But such is life breaking in the Jeep  after a major change like an axle swap. Still getting used to the lockers, wider axles, and a bigger pumpkin in the back. But unlocked the hubs and rode in 2nd off the trail after @Will helped me get winched out of the muddy mess I broke in on Friday. Oreilly’s had the spicer u-joints in stock and I had it swapped in by 8pm. A BFH fixed the diff cover, and I had extra oil packed. I’ll post up some pics in a bit. Thanks all the guys who pulled cable, were spotters and led us on the trails.


Not a dunce hat. That broken joint is a participation trophy. Its only given to those that show up and wheel though!
Title: Re: February 17-18 Choccoloco Mountain - Pictures, videos, carnage & lies
Post by: Kadavenport on February 19, 2023, 11:32:59 PM
My daughter grabbed these photos for us:
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Title: Re: February 17-18 Choccoloco Mountain - Pictures, videos, carnage & lies
Post by: Kadavenport on February 19, 2023, 11:45:50 PM
@Will grabbed a pic of me freezing my rear off replacing that u-joint.

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Title: Re: February 17-18 Choccoloco Mountain - Pictures, videos, carnage & lies
Post by: 8lugLJ on February 20, 2023, 09:03:34 AM
Whoever was running that drone at Playground get that video up! Kyle, tell the little one shes a great photographer!
Title: Re: February 17-18 Choccoloco Mountain - Pictures, videos, carnage & lies
Post by: Ndomokos on February 20, 2023, 09:24:08 AM
Some photos I took - I will get the drone footage from my buddy who was flying and post it later
Title: Re: February 17-18 Choccoloco Mountain - Pictures, videos, carnage & lies
Post by: jd30005 on February 20, 2023, 12:06:33 PM
Did anyone in our group on Saturday get video of Scott's epic multi-point turnaround on boat ramp?
Title: Re: February 17-18 Choccoloco Mountain - Pictures, videos, carnage & lies
Post by: Trailabite on February 20, 2023, 04:25:07 PM



Title: Re: February 17-18 Choccoloco Mountain - Pictures, videos, carnage & lies
Post by: Kadavenport on February 21, 2023, 09:02:14 PM







Title: Re: February 17-18 Choccoloco Mountain - Pictures, videos, carnage & lies
Post by: Ndomokos on February 23, 2023, 04:12:55 PM
Whoever was running that drone at Playground get that video up! Kyle, tell the little one shes a great photographer!

Here is some of the drone footage that I was able to grab. Still parsing through everything - got about 26GB of videos and photos to go through. It should get processed up to 4k in about an hour from now.

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Title: Re: February 17-18 Choccoloco Mountain - Pictures, videos, carnage & lies
Post by: Grass Janitor on February 23, 2023, 05:17:25 PM
@Kadavenport what trail was the “small tire” group on in those videos?
Title: Re: February 17-18 Choccoloco Mountain - Pictures, videos, carnage & lies
Post by: Trailabite on February 23, 2023, 06:30:13 PM
@Kadavenport what trail was the “small tire” group on in those videos?

The pics are at the bypass around tee pee.
Title: Re: February 17-18 Choccoloco Mountain - Pictures, videos, carnage & lies
Post by: jd30005 on February 23, 2023, 07:22:19 PM
@Kadavenport what trail was the “small tire” group on in those videos?

The pics are at the bypass around tee pee.
The top section of that bypass is no joke.
Title: Re: February 17-18 Choccoloco Mountain - Pictures, videos, carnage & lies
Post by: Kadavenport on February 23, 2023, 07:48:06 PM
Yeah the bypass needed a bypass. It was ok though, we have winches for a reason.

Found some more damage on the rig post the ride. Apparently the bolt holding my rear passenger bumpstop left the chat and the bumpstop wedged itself in the bottom of the spring.
Title: Re: February 17-18 Choccoloco Mountain - Pictures, videos, carnage & lies
Post by: Grass Janitor on February 23, 2023, 08:38:12 PM
@Kadavenport what trail was the “small tire” group on in those videos?

The pics are at the bypass around tee pee.
Got it, haven’t been on that trail in a while and I think I’ve only been down it coming off Rubicon. Looks fun.

They really need to update the map. Trails are getting harder and harder there.
Title: Re: February 17-18 Choccoloco Mountain - Pictures, videos, carnage & lies
Post by: tcdawg on February 24, 2023, 09:16:41 AM
Those drone videos are killer!   [beer] [beer]
Title: Re: February 17-18 Choccoloco Mountain - Pictures, videos, carnage & lies
Post by: Cannonballkev on February 24, 2023, 09:17:33 AM
Ok, now I need a drone!
Title: Re: February 17-18 Choccoloco Mountain - Pictures, videos, carnage & lies
Post by: kvom on February 25, 2023, 08:36:06 AM
Drone footage so much better than still photos.  Good job.