I only broke it a little bit, but that'll be at the end of this mess...

Last weekend (11/15/08) I went out to one of our local wheeling spots with a bunch of the other Off-Camber Crawlers for one of our last runs of the year.  Fortunately, the weather wasn't quite as bad as previous years and we generally had a good time.

Friday was me setting up the Go (more on that in another post) and getting a couple hours out in the Jeep.  We ran several trails we were all familiar with, but then go misdirected to a trail that gets pretty nasty.  Chris got his YJ hung up pretty bad, so I started winching him.  Either he got impatient or didn't hear me telling him to stop, so he punched a pretty decent hole in his oil pan.  That was pretty much the end of his day, other than getting him back to camp.

Saturday was a "short" day, since it was also the first day of hunting season.  We had about 4 hours where we were promised we wouldn't be shot, so we made the most of it.  We started on one tough but manageable trail, got seriously rained on, then started another "unknown" trail.  It turns out the unknown trail was about as much as we could manage.  There were several spots that I'd have bet money on that we wouldn't make it.  But, we persevered and managed to get our vehicles a seriously long way up a stream. ;)  We then came back to camp and cooked a LOT of food, consumed frosty beverages, etc.

Sunday was supposed to be an easy day, but I ended up leading a group with two Grand Cherokees, which don't have a lot of clearance.  One was bone stock and wouldn't go into 4-Low, so I ended up guiding them on some easy trails.  It turned out to be a long day, but was still a good one.

All in all, a good weekend out.  But, I think I managed to break a control arm mount or smthng.  I haven't exactly found out what's going on, but the back end of the Jeep wants to step out sideways every so often.  It's, uh, disconcerting. ;)  I'll work on that this Saturday when I head over to a friend's to help install his new skid plate.