IN to UT, AZ, CO in a stock JK Unlimited
- Thread starter scarysharkface
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It's only scary with no top rope, done that once - never again!
scarysharkface
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scarysharkface
Explorer
It's something (out of a list of hundreds of things) I've always wanted to do.
It looks dangerous, requires some really cool gear and will hopefully coerce me into a more healthy lifestyle (so I don't have to lift as much ME when I climb).
Once getting past the initial struggles with poor technique, I now find it terrifically addicting. The fact that most crags are in beautiful settings is just icing on the cake.
My entire family has started climbing as well, as the pics I've posted may indicate, and it feels good to share this with them. I think it helps us all understand each other just that much more, which can be difficult in the modern distracted world..
John
It looks dangerous, requires some really cool gear and will hopefully coerce me into a more healthy lifestyle (so I don't have to lift as much ME when I climb).
Once getting past the initial struggles with poor technique, I now find it terrifically addicting. The fact that most crags are in beautiful settings is just icing on the cake.
My entire family has started climbing as well, as the pics I've posted may indicate, and it feels good to share this with them. I think it helps us all understand each other just that much more, which can be difficult in the modern distracted world..
John
Ford Prefect
Expedition Leader
Great photos, thanks.
I have been to almost all of the places you went on this trip, some of them many hundreds of times. Very nice, very enjoyable to recall.
By the by, Someone mentioned how to "level up" your jeep. You do not want to do that, just lift the front and rear the same. You want to keep the rear higher because when you load the rear up with all of your gear the weight will level it off for you. If you level it first, then you will find it riding really uncomfortably low in the rear when you are on trips.
Wow, thanks again, I really enjoyed this read.
Brian
I have been to almost all of the places you went on this trip, some of them many hundreds of times. Very nice, very enjoyable to recall.
By the by, Someone mentioned how to "level up" your jeep. You do not want to do that, just lift the front and rear the same. You want to keep the rear higher because when you load the rear up with all of your gear the weight will level it off for you. If you level it first, then you will find it riding really uncomfortably low in the rear when you are on trips.
Wow, thanks again, I really enjoyed this read.
Brian
JIMBO
Expedition Leader
:sombrero: Yea, Fords absolutely right, thats why the Jeep JK 4dr, comes with a slight rake
Mine levels PERFECT, when there's a LOAD in the cargo
A bit of trivia-In 1956 the FAD in high school, was to add spacers to the rear springs (cars), for a "RAKE" and run black wheels, with lakesters (sliders), but exhaust !!
Now that was in Northern California, ya had to be there !!
:costumed-smiley-007:safari-rig::safari-rig: JIMBO
Mine levels PERFECT, when there's a LOAD in the cargo
A bit of trivia-In 1956 the FAD in high school, was to add spacers to the rear springs (cars), for a "RAKE" and run black wheels, with lakesters (sliders), but exhaust !!
Now that was in Northern California, ya had to be there !!
:costumed-smiley-007:safari-rig::safari-rig: JIMBO
FortyMileDesert
Adventurer
I was there - 1959 graduate of Oroville Union High School.........:coffeedrink:
scarysharkface
Explorer
Thanks guys!
While sorting out the suspension at the local spring shop, for a little while it looked like one of those muscle cars.
I don't think I really want to do anything much more difficult than we did this trip, but having extra clearance will make me not worry about it so much. After some adjustment and another spring swap, I think I'll settle on this:
Drove it just enough before the alignment to make the onboard computer a bit wonky (spooky even), but disconnecting the battery for several minutes seems to have made it all good again.
I think I will definitely need longer shocks (and the associated lower brake line brackets), and probably the bits to make the castor a bit friendlier before I take any long trips with it.
All in all I'm happy I traded my truck for the Jeep and took this trip.. :smiley_drive:
John
While sorting out the suspension at the local spring shop, for a little while it looked like one of those muscle cars.
I don't think I really want to do anything much more difficult than we did this trip, but having extra clearance will make me not worry about it so much. After some adjustment and another spring swap, I think I'll settle on this:
Drove it just enough before the alignment to make the onboard computer a bit wonky (spooky even), but disconnecting the battery for several minutes seems to have made it all good again.
I think I will definitely need longer shocks (and the associated lower brake line brackets), and probably the bits to make the castor a bit friendlier before I take any long trips with it.
All in all I'm happy I traded my truck for the Jeep and took this trip.. :smiley_drive:
John
scarysharkface
Explorer
Sarah's pics...
Okay, time to dip into the kids' stash of pics from the trip.
Did I mention that we "mmmmooooooooooo-ed" at every bovine we laid eyes upon?
I can see why so many of my photographs are canted slightly.
While Tracy's are usually pretty level...
Recurring theme...
Lots of the trails had cairns instead of signage. Cool..
These are of course from Canyonlands/Needles...
I enjoy seeing things through the eyes of my children..
John
Okay, time to dip into the kids' stash of pics from the trip.
Did I mention that we "mmmmooooooooooo-ed" at every bovine we laid eyes upon?
I can see why so many of my photographs are canted slightly.
While Tracy's are usually pretty level...
Recurring theme...
Lots of the trails had cairns instead of signage. Cool..
These are of course from Canyonlands/Needles...
I enjoy seeing things through the eyes of my children..
John
scarysharkface
Explorer
More of Sarah's pics..
Needles again..
The plant that makes it all possible..
Talk about your little fishhooks...
John
Needles again..
The plant that makes it all possible..
Talk about your little fishhooks...
John
scarysharkface
Explorer
Sarah's pics
Bryce...
John
Bryce...
John
roostercruiser
Adventurer
nice trip report . it was enjoyable read.
scarysharkface
Explorer
Thanks. It was an enjoyable trip that I look forward to repeating. :smiley_drive:
scarysharkface
Explorer
John