PDA

View Full Version : GWNF Trail Ride 02 Feb



miljeep
01-29-2008, 22:11
TRAIL RUN TO GWNF SAT 02FEB08
WHEN WHERE: Well meet up at the sheets on 33E at 10am
TRAIL: Flagpole trail very stocker friendly
GRUB: Bring some dogs and hamburgers and buns and drinks. Well cook out lunch on medow knob.
WHO CAN GO....... ANYBODY THIS IS OPEN TO MEMBERS AND NON-MEMBERS

Final Link-up: 1000 Feb 02 located at Sheetz Gas Station 798 E Market St Harrisonburg, VA 22801 (540) 433-6200. (Vic Geo: N38 Deg 26' 46.98" W078 Deg 51' 11.75") [Google map (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=798+E+Market+St,+Harrisonburg,+VA+22801,+USA&ie=UTF8&ll=38.447556,-78.853512&spn=0.007865,0.020084&z=16&iwloc=addr&om=0)]

THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO BRING
The following is the minimum equipment you must have present on/in your vehicle to participate on the trailrides:

1. Full Size Spare Tire (each veh)
2. A jack capable of lifting a wheel off the ground (each Veh) (HiLift group)
3. A tow strap (group)
4. Tow Hooks Front and Rear (each veh)
5. A 4WD vehicle in good working order (each Veh)
6. First Aid Kit (basic - each veh, bigger - group if EMT)
7. Fire Extinguisher (each veh)
8. CB (recommended each veh) FRS/GMRS (recommended - talk around)
9. Tools and fluids (each veh)

And for the most important of all,
10. Common Sense - Know your skill level and the capabilities of your Jeep. Think before you do something or the results could be very, very bad.


DO'S AND DONTS
Travel responsibly on designated roads and trails or in permitted areas.

Respect the rights of others including private property owners and all recreational trail users, campers and others to allow them to enjoy their recreational activities undisturbed.

Educate yourself by obtaining travel maps and regulations from public agencies, planning for your trip, taking recreation skills classes, and knowing how to use and operate your equipment safely.

Avoid sensitive areas such as meadows, lakeshores, wetlands and streams, unless on designated routes. This protects wildlife habitat and sensitive soils from damage.

Do your part by leaving the area better than you found it, properly disposing of waste, minimizing the use of fire, avoiding the spread of invasive species, restoring degraded areas, and joining a local enthusiast organization.

Who's Going--
1. miljeep
2. korisu56
3. Pacifier
4. Jeepmadman
5. Elevatorguy

FYI: This ride is not sponsored by Military Jeepers, myself or anyone else on this board or attending of taking any part in the planning of this trail ride. You are joining other Jeepers on this ride for fun. You ride at your own risk. If you break something, YOU broke it. We will do the usual safety briefing before we roll out from any point, but remember that if at any point you don't feel comfortable navigating any part of the trail, tell someone and we will point the way to an alternative route. Everyone will tread lightly and be grown-ups.If at any point you do not wheel responsibly or knowingly pose a safety risk to anyone in the group, you will be asked to leave.

miljeep
01-29-2008, 22:14
I started a new thread with the original information that 02TJ put out about the trail ride. Please keep the posts here about the ride and try to keep the extra stuff out so that someone can come here and quickly read through to find updates.

I will post some information below about addresses and such, but I have started a new thread for anyone that wished to link up around the Belvoir area (http://www.militaryjeepers.com/community/showthread.php?t=334).


Last rally point before we hit the trails:

I think that anyone that is just going to meet us up there will find it best to link up at the Sheets on 33 (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=798+E+Market+St,+Harrisonburg,+VA+22801,+USA&ie=UTF8&ll=38.447556,-78.853512&spn=0.007865,0.020084&z=16&iwloc=addr&om=0) which is near the old (closed down) food lion parking lot. The address is to the food lion is listed here on mapquest (http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?addr=924+w+market&csz=harrisonburg%2C+va&country=us&new=1&name=&qty=). We have a small group going and I don't think anyone is that far west, so we should not have anyone to meet there, but I posted it just incase.


Basic directions to GWNF from Fort Belvoir area:

You can click the link about to get a better idea of how to get there, but this is how I head that direction from fort Belvoir. Drive 95 north to 495 to 66 West to 81 South. Total drive from Belvoir is about 2 hours and we stay on channel 4 to make sure that everyone is good to go. We will fuel up and grab some food and drinks when we are near GWNF, but we can stop along the way if needed.

-----------------------------
I will send out my cell phone number and my wife's cell phone number via private message. For safety reasons and incase someone does not arrive at the link-up point, I would like to have a cell number or good contact number for everyone that is planning to attend. This will make it a lot easier when joe snuffy does not show up at a rally point. If all else fails, you can link up with everyone at the old food lion listed at the top of this post.

korisu56
01-30-2008, 21:12
I will be there NLT 1030. Wife doesn't get home from her night shift till 0800. I'll already have everything packed up. She comes in, changes, we're gone.

Nick
01-30-2008, 21:23
wife has to work saturday, so cant make this one but hopefully next time

03Sahara
01-30-2008, 22:30
bad mojo guys........my mother is having complications after a liver transplant so I m heading to WV.........I will make the next excursion.

miljeep
01-30-2008, 22:33
Sorry to hear that she is having problems. Hope all goes well and she recovers fine. See ya next time.

02tj
02-01-2008, 05:29
uh...... my 8.8 axle is ready for pick up at Eddies shop, Im gonna opt out to in order to go pick it up. From what I understand the whole east side of the mountain is all ice anyway. If you guys go, do dry river insted. sorry about ducking out guys but I gotta get this new axle in. My 35 is making some freaky noises at hgy speeds.

Pacifier
02-01-2008, 09:09
uh...... my 8.8 axle is ready for pick up at Eddies shop, Im gonna opt out to in order to go pick it up. From what I understand the whole east side of the mountain is all ice anyway. If you guys go, do dry river insted. sorry about ducking out guys but I gotta get this new axle in. My 35 is making some freaky noises at hgy speeds.

We understand that bad weather scares you. It's OK. :eek:

You know you can always drive the Cherokee or the grand right? :mad:

Ryan,

You want to link up at my house? LMK

miljeep
02-01-2008, 09:31
I am going to link up with two other people at the rest area on 66 and then head out from there. We can call when we are heading out like last time and just have you merge in.

Pacifier
02-01-2008, 09:40
Sounds good. Scott and I will meet you in the overpass again. Around what time?

miljeep
02-01-2008, 10:52
Well, if chris can get to the rest area by 9, then we will roll out from the rest area by 0900. I am not sure how long it will take us to get to you, but I can call when we are good and give you time to leave your house and head out before we hit the road again and leave the rest stop.

korisu56
02-01-2008, 14:10
I'm in.

Jeepmadman
02-01-2008, 16:02
cool ill send you my # in a pm

miljeep
02-01-2008, 16:15
Should be a fun one.

02tj
02-01-2008, 23:56
your funny D!

Pacifier
02-02-2008, 21:35
Good times.... Thank you all!

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f108/irkermit/DSCF1134.jpg

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f108/irkermit/DSCF1137.jpg

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f108/irkermit/DSCF1165.jpg

vajeeper
02-02-2008, 22:12
Looks like you guys had fun.

Once I get my Heep up to speed I will get out there with ya'll!

korisu56
02-02-2008, 22:37
There's more where that came from. Thanks everyone, good times.

miljeep
02-02-2008, 22:41
It was fun. I had never done the dry river run before, but after today I prefer it over flagpole.

Jeepmadman
02-02-2008, 23:00
thanks for a great time the qote of the day "you want to try my meat?"
pic of the dayhttp://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q288/bernardroulston/IMG_7154.jpg

miljeep
02-02-2008, 23:07
Great photo. It was fun. Great wheeling with you and your family.

korisu56
02-02-2008, 23:17
Definitely receives the award

korisu56
02-02-2008, 23:25
Just a couple that you guys took of mine. Again, it was great hanging out with all of you, and these are great pictures. Now if we can just figure out how do get that video of me pounding that hill and crossing that river....

Jeepmadman
02-02-2008, 23:46
here are some video links from today
pacifier and elevatoreguy in water
http://s139.photobucket.com/albums/q288/bernardroulston/?action=view&current=MVI_7206.flv

miljeep
http://s139.photobucket.com/albums/q288/bernardroulston/?action=view&current=MVI_7202.flv

korisu crossing water
http://s139.photobucket.com/albums/q288/bernardroulston/?action=view&current=MVI_7193.flv

miljeep
02-02-2008, 23:59
korisu56 "nailing the hill"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbpN8UMgB6s

miljeep
02-03-2008, 00:26
ElevatorGuy banging his skid when the wheel drops off the sie of the hill.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNdv--Xq_Bk

miljeep
02-03-2008, 01:05
Still trying to figure out how they got the name "dry river" for this area...

korisu56
02-03-2008, 08:50
How do you save it off of Photobucket?

vajeeper
02-03-2008, 08:57
Wow, thought you guys said it was stocker friendly?

korisu56
02-03-2008, 08:58
everything had bypasses. We only hit stuff that we wanted to. The video of me hitting that hill, about fifty yards to the right as you're looking down the hill had a way that compact cars were coming down to enjoy the river.

miljeep
02-03-2008, 09:45
Everything had an alternate way around it.

xj98b
02-03-2008, 10:30
You know I was thinkin all those rigs looked big which would make my little 3" XJ look like a baby but hell I'll be on the next run. Great pics and it looked like fun.

miljeep
02-03-2008, 10:45
Last night we stopped at Fort Diego on the way home and he took photos from a bunch of the cameras that were taken on he ride and put them on a Cd fr everyone. I am resizing them now, plus adding some from a camera which we forgot to bring in to get the photos downloaded last night. I will throw them all up on webshots, but there will be a bunch and they will not really be in any special order. It does show some good photos of various parts of the rides. I am leaving out some of the photos because they are more "hey, take a photo of us in front of our jeep" kind of shots.

I wil post a link to the photos when they are up.

miljeep
02-03-2008, 10:48
Jeepmadman going through a mud hole

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G4OyoGMUn0

TexCJ7
02-03-2008, 11:47
wish i was there looked like a great time

miljeep
02-03-2008, 11:51
wish i was there looked like a great time

your going next time, right?

Here are the photos. They are not in any special order because they were taken off of many cameras. I resized them to make them load faster.
http://good-times.webshots.com/album/562355671qOFeBX

vajeeper
02-03-2008, 12:14
Understand. Will get the rest of the required goodies and be on the next one.

TexCJ7
02-03-2008, 17:56
lets shoot for february 23 or the first of march and i should be set up to go

Jeepmadman
02-03-2008, 18:41
for those that went on the ride pm me your address and ill send you a cd with all the images. here are a few more i thought you would like
http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q288/bernardroulston/IMG_7179.jpghttp://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q288/bernardroulston/IMG_7180.jpghttp://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q288/bernardroulston/IMG_7162.jpg

02tj
02-03-2008, 20:28
nice! sorry I had to duck out guys. Had to go and get my 8.8 and some other things in order to get ready for aprils ride in Oak ridge. rear diff, gears, lift, adjustable control arms, wheels tires, bar pin elemanators to be soon installed!

Jeepmadman
02-03-2008, 21:14
02tj thanks for setting that last run up it was great sorry you missed it

theyeti1775
02-15-2008, 10:24
Wow, thought you guys said it was stocker friendly?
It can be Stocker Friendly.
I drove Georgia's YJ through it with only a 1"BL 1"MML and an Engine Skid on 30" M/T's. Lost 4wd on the first hole in, only had to be strapped 3 times throughout it. And only bypassed 2 of the holes and took 2 of the easy lines on others.