did you guys make it back ok? How was it? Did you get lots of rain? Come on tell me...... :)

nate wrote:did you guys make it back ok? How was it? Did you get lots of rain? Come on tell me...... :)

lots of rain coming home for me sunday

i broke somethin, had to be towed home. Finally made it in around 2am monday morning, called in sick to work today and went back up to payson to tow the jeep the rest of the way home

what did you break?

Here are my pictures from the trip:
http://picasaweb.google.com/Quadfire/TheCracks2007
Can't wait to see Mike's
I had a blast thanks to all who were there.

He broke something in his rear diff. Most likely his spider gears or his sensibility.

But let's talk about the full size tire-on-rim in the middle of the beeline on the way back into town. Who new a Jeep and an Xterra could jump a tire at 60mph.

So theres was just this trie/rim combo sitting in the road while we were in caravan formation. All of a sudden from the rear of the line Randy and I see Bob, the only one who had a chance to see it, swerve crazily then Dana's Jeep swerve a little (as they tried to stradle it) and bounce some and all of a sudden in my view a tire flies out from under the Jeep pops up a little and flies right at us. Luckily we were holding form pretty tight so it didn't have much of a chance to get high enough to say, come through the windshield. We had no time to do anything so we took it how it was served. It all happened so quickly, but I believe it hit the bottom of the bumper, went under, we jumped it too, and then a few fast jarring thumps from the undercarriage and then my side view mirror let me see it shoot out behind, bounce once and shoot up over any cars behind me. It bounced so high I lost it in the mirror until it bounced again on the shoulder and took off up the hilly road side.

I just knew something had to be busted, a wheel an arm, something. Bob knew it could be bad so he pulled right over and we followed. A little shook up we did an inspection for damage on Dana's and mine but could visually see none.

Imagine if it had been a car, or if we had been further staggered. Guess it was actually good that it was us.

Great pics!

That tire thing was crazy! I thought someone was going to die!

http://good-times.webshots.com/album/560541062fPasJZ

link to some pics

skatchkins wrote:He broke something in his rear diff. Most likely his spider gears or his sensibility.

But let's talk about the full size tire-on-rim in the middle of the beeline on the way back into town. Who new a Jeep and an Xterra could jump a tire at 60mph.

So theres was just this trie/rim combo sitting in the road while we were in caravan formation. All of a sudden from the rear of the line Randy and I see Bob, the only one who had a chance to see it, swerve crazily then Dana's Jeep swerve a little (as they tried to stradle it) and bounce some and all of a sudden in my view a tire flies out from under the Jeep pops up a little and flies right at us. Luckily we were holding form pretty tight so it didn't have much of a chance to get high enough to say, come through the windshield. We had no time to do anything so we took it how it was served. It all happened so quickly, but I believe it hit the bottom of the bumper, went under, we jumped it too, and then a few fast jarring thumps from the undercarriage and then my side view mirror let me see it shoot out behind, bounce once and shoot up over any cars behind me. It bounced so high I lost it in the mirror until it bounced again on the shoulder and took off up the hilly road side.

I just knew something had to be busted, a wheel an arm, something. Bob knew it could be bad so he pulled right over and we followed. A little shook up we did an inspection for damage on Dana's and mine but could visually see none.

Imagine if it had been a car, or if we had been further staggered. Guess it was actually good that it was us.

8| wow glad no one got hurt, that could have been really bad!

I did spot the 3 of you just outside of payson around 3:15 when I was on my way up. I flashed my lights but I dont think any of you saw me

WOW that could have been really bad. Thank God no one was hurt...

OMG that short video of Bob is nutz. How the heck did you make it out?

You just drive it. That was so much fun.

We clearly had the coolest camp




How many wheels are turning?














16yr old girl driver


Our own Bobert

Bob looks cool doing anything






A few more and large versions
Tomorrow, I'll have to post the crazy cool lightning pics.

nice pics, I like the ones where the jeep is the focus and the rest is blurred out

Yeah, me too. My good zoom lens is great at that but I have to be pretty far away so it's hard to take most of them with it.

Nice pics..Looks like the weather was good for the day and everyone was having a great time..What was the drive time for the drive there?

Here's the freakin awesome lightning shots from camp.
Dana got to take these with my camera while I waited with Chris for the tow :'(

It was crazy out there!

That is soooooo freaking cool

nice, the clouds are crazy looking in those pics too, seem like they are swirling around the lightning bolt