Went up to Big Bear Saturday morning, met up with some guys from the Tierra del Sol Club about 7 Jeeps and 1 Toyota Truck. Did John Bull in the morning and Gold Mtn. in the afternoon. It was perfect weather, not too hot, not too cold, plenty of blue sky.
Got to John Bull about 9:30AM and the Waywego club from Pasadena was performing trail maintenance. They had removed all of the stacking rocks and were cleaning up. Seemed like a great group of guys. They were completing their second day, here is what the trail looked like when I got there.
Apparently it was Jeep Jamboree week, I saw hundreds of Jeeps of the drive in but only met up with 1 group and a few stragglers on the trails.
John Bull was quite and experience. Nothing like the smell of burning clutch in the morning. Ripped one of my airbags out and it took a tire out with it. That and a few new slider scars and gas tank dents is all the damage I escaped with. The TDS guys operate a little differently than I'm used to, there is no spotting they all just drive unless someone get stuck or in trouble. I don't think I would try that again without some lower gears. No pictures of me but just a group shot out my windshield, you can see part of a blue pickup behind one of the trees. He had dual ceses and Supra motor swap, man that thing could fly.
Next we moved on to Gold Mountain (Rt 38 to 3N16). A piece of cake compared to the morning run. I had done that trail before with Marc P (thanks Marc) but the other way. There was a trailboss showing off on the rock pile on the top of he mountain with his super built jeep, the other trailboss yells "if you break anything your on your own" within 2 seconds the guys front right tire comes off, totally off. The look on the Drivers face when he sees himself pass his tire through the passenger side door opening was priceless. He sheared off all 6 hub studs. Not sure if he every made it out of there. Here is a pic from Gold Mtn to show how beautiful it was up there (sorry for the Jeep).
We parted ways about 5PM, my daughter an I camped the night and left the next morning. Had a great time and those are a great group of guys. I am going to try to make some more TDS runs this year.
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Originally Posted by Tankota
