zjrog

Ran Rattlesnake with some friends this morning...



Scott's wife throwing his XJ through the rocks. She did a great job, and Scott did the spotting...



My buddy Gerry drove his 2003 Montero through Rattlesnake, with a little rubbing on the plastic running boards. Expect those to be gone soon with some real sliders and other armor... Though he did take the easy way through everywhere he could.


Three years ago was the first time I ran Rattlesnake, when the ZJ was still stock height and on 31s. I said then, 31s and 2" and some armor would be all I need. Didn't touch anything, even taking some tougher lines. Still need some armor though.

Fun time, no carnage, and running it again in the morning with some others.

builtnotbought89'

Funny you should ask that at about 10pm! Lol
We were just exiting poison spider mesa after; getting lost (2 hours), donkey got a flat (side wall damage), & slamming/dragging my sliders down the "V notch"! Just before reaching the golden spike we met some yota guys that had been on the gold bar to golden spike for about 8 hours, it being 6:30pm we turned back & went back through 3/4 of golden spike & out poison spider in the dark!!! Lol thank god we replace donkeypunch's LF U-joint the night before at camp... The yota guys thought they were cool, cause we were folowing them out tell they got lost, & had to ask us to lead the way! Lol
Donkey was singing anything you can do my jeep can do beter, I CAN DO ANYTHING BETER THAN YOU... thewhole way home! Lol

Desert Rat

Jealous, i did'nt get mine out this weekend. I decided to spend the time getting my lights hooked up. I also got around to locating my exhaust leak (did'nt bother looking before because I knew what it was), sure enough my exhaust manifolds cracked at the collector, I'm not looking forward to that repair.

Desert Rat

zjrog has me thinking we need to hit the snakes again now the muds dried up.

zjrog

Ran Rattlesnake again this morning with the Utah 4x4 Club folks. Neat to have new guys out and about...

I got pics! My daughter went a little nuts with the camera, but I finally got through them all!! But sure was a good time. Fun watching Matt hammer his Blazer up Wayne's World, and watching Kevin in his XJ walk right up...

All the pics I posted (about a third of them...) are in my photobucket...








We didn't let the Trooper get hurt either... Hope to see you out again...


235s and didn't air down! And no, there wasn't mud at Rattlesnake...




It was that very rock that made me decide what I intended to do with my ZJ... And its nothing to me now... Even taking a few tougher lines than I would have before.



I must be crazy, I let my daughter drive some too! Seriously, she had a good time and did just fine on the couple obstacles she hit...

alwaysxj

looks like it was a good old fashion time.

zjrog

Yep! Rattlesnake twice in two days... Great trips with friends!

alwaysxj

hey ryan if you still need one of these this is a start.
http://www.rockymountainextreme.com/...ad.php?t=75255

builtnotbought89'

Yep looks like we need to do that run again!

Those lights look sweet jeff, a couple of the yota guys we ran into had lights set up under there rigs... Its got me plotting! Lol

Steph74

My new tactic..... I have the jeep in the garage, and the computer and I show her the pictures of your trips..... I hope that she will wake up and help me make her good looking to go there lol....

it's coming it's getting there, I am walking my way slowly to the front.... need to change some of the U-joints when I do shocks suspension

Steph74

...... it is only Wednesday, week will be long long long...

builtnotbought89'

Noidontthinkimdrinkingtomuchcoffeewhy (No I don't think I'm drinking to much coffee, why?)

builtnotbought89'

ZJrog did you go watch the UT4x4 guys head up constrictor? I would like to size my xj up next to eagles nest, cause I took some massave step ups in moab!

Desert Rat

Posting up a couple pics for Ryan from his recent Moab excursion.

alwaysxj

sweet i cannot wait tell i can go.