Meet with Ken for some Illinois trail riding
| The jeep made a trip to Illinois so while there I looked into some local trails. The Cliffs Insane Terrain in Marseilles was one to make the list. Ken was able to join in and he captured photos while I drove. Many of the photos and video are credit to him. |
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The day started with
an impromptu host showing a group of five the general layout of the
offroad park. Ken and I were at the tail of the group. The host had
everyone drive to the right of a mud hole but I looked at it and
thought - it looks dry... it can't be that deep... and decided to ride
through it. That wasn't to happen and this is the result. The group
leader / host brought his jeep to the back to give me a pull out of the
hole. A 35" tire disappeared into the muck and the fender was barely
touching. A bit earlier I made a comment to Ken that I wasn't too
interested in getting the jeep muddy.
Video Pulling me out of a mud hole, uprighting a tipped jeep 2012-07-13--the-cliffs-insane-terrain-JimWilliamson-net.mpg MPEG 1, 26.2MB, 2min 2sec, 640x480 |
| Our gracious host. |
| The front wheel's filled with mud. |
| How deep could that be?! |
| A bit of the thick goo came out with the jeep. |
| Back moving through the treed trail system. |
| Photographs typically "flatten" the terrain. |
| Out to the obstacle course (tires and such)
one jeep
decided to run a driver's front tire up the planted tire. Left front
went up, right front hung in the air for a moment - then decided it
needed ground under it - but none was nearby until the jeep was past
tipover point. As it was second in the line and we were last we had a
decent view of it going over. Not too much damage - right side glass, cracked hard top, cracked windshield, bent windshield frame. Out come the winches to get it back on its feet. |
| The white line on the top's black coloring (ground) is one crack. |
| The leader / host |
| Getting the winch ready. |
| The yellow jeep was used to pull the tipped jeep backwards / off of the tire. |
| There is a creek that passes through the place. Not much water in it this dry summer. |
| I do enjoy the lush green of the Midwest! |
| Panorama Click for a larger size |
| At the obscacle arena there was a flex ramp. |
| There were several hills to play with. |
| Another jeep tagging along (always good to have help at hand). |
| Good, thick rain clouds passing Northeast of us. |
| Ken headed out and I went back in for one more trip. More pix from the creek. |
