20110219 Big bear John bull snow run

[troyboy162]

cross posting for Scuba. it was a blast up there. at one point i was trying to figure out sleeping arrangements in the event that we were not going to make it off the mountain...the snow surprisingly offered pretty good traction, but my winch got used. all snow runs are "recovery runs" too some extent and this one was no different. the highlight for me was hiking a 1/8 mile in the dark, post holing, in the snow storm, trying to find some part of the trail. with that much snow up there the trail looks no different then the open woods.

Had a pretty good day up there. Weather was nice when we first got there at about 11AM. We started at Jacoby Canyon (3N61) and then headed down 3N16 to the west entrance of John Bull to run it backwards. Turned out to be the best plan because according to another group we ran into, going up the hill after gatekeeper was near impossible.

Attendees: Me (scuba), Troy (Troyboy162) and Chris (LBchico98).

Was a relatively event free day except for some carnage on my part.
After going up the rock garden thats normally right before (when running east to west) the big open "group shot hill" I hit a rock with my passenger front tire while making tracks up the hill. When the tire hit I busted the CV axle, took a 2x6 ish chunk out of the rim and knocked over the alignment cam locating tabs. The CV R&R took a good 1.5hrs. After that we blazed the trail but it was slow going. I don't think we were off of the trail until 9ish.

A couple pics. I'll post the link to the album after the rest of the pictures upload..







Crappy Alignment:


Limp shaft:


Shaft replacement.

youtuber
john bull in the snow

[troyboy162]

More pics:










All the pics are here:
http://s11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...run%202-19-11/

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[Scuba]

Rest of the pictures
http://s11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...run%202-19-11/


JINX

[troyboy162]

steeling from steve pics...these are some more good ones

[some_odd_girl]

A bunch of those pics are mine haha :P it was a fun time!

[troyboy162]

i stole them out of steves album. i dont know whos are what but they came out good

[Scuba]

A bunch of those pics are mine haha :P it was a fun time!

MOST of those pics are yours. I took the liberty and put them on PB. I told you I have PB pro..

[troyboy162]

oh and next run will have a this...

requirements:
-yada yada
-yap yap
-put your friggen stock skid back on foo

hhahah

[Scuba]

oh and next run will have a this...

requirements:
-yada yada
-yap yap
-put your friggen stock skid back on foo

hhahah

WIN!!!!

[Obi..]

Looks like the pond isn't too deep or frozen yet?