Pine Mountain Night Snow 4×4 Run
Hosted by BecauseSheLetsMe
By Clay Graham / CegPics.com
On the night of March 5th, 2007 I rode shoot gun with BecauseSheLetsMe up to his cabin and the private trails around it. VETSCH and Rednk1980 wheeled their rigs with us. I have to say, what a blast!
Here are some photos of the Pine Mountain Night Snow 4×4 Run:
Slab ORV Meet & Greet
Hosted by Eastern Washington Off Road
By Clay Graham / CegPics.com
On Saturday February 17th, 2007 I flat towed my wife’s (new to her) XJ she calls “Tweety Jeep” to meet everyone at the Slab for the Eastern Washington Off Road Run/Meet & Greet. This was the rigs first 4 wheeling run. We just put a 4.5″ Rough Counrt lift on it and Colemancooler built us a bumper for it.
Most of the people showed around 11 AM . We counted 20 rigs but may have missed a few since we had this big play ground and were spread out.
First stop was Flex Canyon. A lot of rigs gave Flex Canyon a shot. Psychotoy laid his buggy on it’s side showing what it could do. Built-not-bot had some steering issues.
We mover through Power Pole Canyon and then headed over to the hill climbs in the middle of the ORV area. Hank broke his XJ and had Scuba bring out his trailer to get it back home.
I was side-by-side with Colemancooler on a climb and I broke my wife’s Tweety Jeep XJ. I called Hank to take my tow rig back home a bring back the trailer since he was going the way. Insanityfab did a trail fix to get the Tweety Jeep rolling. Built-not-bot lower the rig down the hill with his winch. Winches from Bigtoyota4me, Psychotoy and Jerry FY helped too. With the help of so many people we got the rig down the hill and onto my trailer. Thanks for all your help.
This was a great time and I am glad everyone came out. It was good to meet some new faces.
Thanks for all your help getting the Tweety Jeep on the trailer. 99 is very happy it came home.
Here are some photos of the EWOR 2007 Slab ORV Meet & Greet:
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Martin Luther King Jr. Snow Run at Ahtanum
Hosted by Eastern Washington Off Road
Report by Clay Graham. Photos by Clay Graham / CegPics.com
On Saturday January 13th, 2007, Eastern Washington Off Road had a Martin Luther King Jr. snow run at the Ahtanum. I found out when I was warming up my XJ, it had a blown head gasket. My family was very disappointed that our Jeep was broken and they could not go. I was the Trail Boss without a rig. I called up Fatboy and he was nice enough to come pick me up.
A few rigs convoyed from Ceg Ranch to the run. We arrived around 10 AM at the Cowiche Mill Road Ahtanum entrance. We started off with 14 rigs but thought we had a few more coming. We waited until 10:30 and then hit the trail.
Fatboy usually is our Tail Gunner but had to be near the front because of me being the Trail Boss. We had to be close enough to point out where the trails was on this run. Since Fatboy is running 31s and kind of a Low Rider, we had Toyotawheelin and another built Toyota take the lead.
We found four more rigs waiting up the trail for us. The missing rigs. Some how they thought the meeting point was at the cut off. That brought the count up to 18 rigs.
The first problem was a tree down in the trail. I left my cutting tools at home in the Molly Mule. We used man power to move the tree so we could pass.
At the turn to start climbing we stopped to wait up for everyone to catch up. As soon as we started up the hill, the 2nd rig back had something wrong with the electrical system. Me moved up the trail for a few minutes. We came to all stop again because Tiny had his hood up.
Toyotawheelin’ drove into the rock pit. He found out that he was driving on ice real quick when the rig fell through. They tried to pull the rig through. That did not work. That had to pull him up the other way.
Remember the Low Rider I was talking about. We got stuck! A little sled pulling by Rollin37s and we are on our way.
We stopped again to wait for Colemancooler because he lost a bead. A few guys helped him and we were on our way again. Moving up the trail some had to have a pull.
At the last switch back we regrouped. The trail on top of Cowiche Ridge was a real challenge and only a few made it very far.
Some of the rigs kept going on the trail and some of us headed back down toward the rock pit. Once everyone was back down, we headed back toward the Cowiche Mill Road parking area. A long the way one rig found he had broke five out of six studs off one wheel. He tried to limp the rig out to the parking lot. Then it died and Fatboy had to charge the battery so he could go again. The rig didn’t make it much farther before the last stud broke off. They had to bring up a trailer to get the rig home.
This was a fun run with a lot of cool people. Thanks for the ride Fatboy!
Here are some photos of the MLK Snow Run at Ahtanum:
Pine Mountain New Year Snow Run
Hosted by YOTABOYS
Report by Clay Graham. Photos by Clay Graham & hank Graham / CegPics.com
On Monday, January 1st, 2007, Tiny and I were invited to come along on the YOTABOYS New Year’s Snow Run on Pine Mountain. This was a treat for us since this run was in an area closed to the general public. The land is owned by private parties and you can only go there if invited by a land owner which we were.
We met up at the Tampico Fire Station. We headed up the North Fork Ahtanum Road and then up Nasty Creek Road to a private road. Right off the bat we had problems getting through the deep snow on the road. The snow was powder and very deep in areas. A lot of the rigs had very tall tires and struggled to get through the deep snow. We never made it to the cabin we were trying to get to, but we had a great time trying.
UPDATE: This was the last run the Molly Mule XJ would ever do. I ran her to hard in the powder snow and blew the head gasket on the smoking 4.0 L. The replacement engine ended up having a knock after all that work putting it together. The Molly Mule’s body was pretty beat up so we recycled the good parts onto the Tweety Jeep. R.I.P. Molly Mule!
Here are some photos of the Pine Mountain New Year Snow Run:
Family Sledding 4×4 Adventure
Hosted by Eastern Washington Off Road
By Clay Graham / CegPics.com
We wanted to take the kids sledding where there were no crowds of people. We figured there would not be many people on the top of Cowiche Ridge and it would be fun wheeling to get there. So on Sunday December 10th, 2006 members of the All Wheelers Off Road Club and a few others headed up Cowiche Mill Road and made our way up Cowiche Ridge.
Here are some photos of the day:
