Had a great time wheeling this afternoon on a new trail. Met up with a few Spanish speaking Jeeper families and we were all glad we met! I thought it was just a simple dirt road and didn't bring my spare tire along - turned out to be quite the difficult trail. After watching several of the Jeeps try to make it up a little side excursion, I went for it - and caught my right rear sidewall on a razor-rock. Whoops. Opened up about a 4" gash in the tire. They were very cool - drove me down to the staging area where a friend brought my spare, and then drove me back up and helped me change it out. In the meantime, however, one of their Jeeps broke a steering rod. Ouch. Once I was up and running again, I drove them down into town to another friend's house and he welded their parts back together. I got them back, we reinstalled it, and finally - as it was getting dark - we were all back on our way. Wheelers, no matter what they are driving or what language they speak, ar a very cool bunch. Of course, I never let them take a pick of my stranded Hummer, but I DID manage a shot of my H2 lighting them up for their repair.

All in all, a fun day and some new friends.

Sean

Had a great time wheeling this afternoon on a new trail. Met up with a few Spanish speaking Jeeper families and we were all glad we met! I thought it was just a simple dirt road and didn't bring my spare tire along - turned out to be quite the difficult trail. After watching several of the Jeeps try to make it up a little side excursion, I went for it - and caught my right rear sidewall on a razor-rock. Whoops. Opened up about a 4" gash in the tire. They were very cool - drove me down to the staging area where a friend brought my spare, and then drove me back up and helped me change it out. In the meantime, however, one of their Jeeps broke a steering rod. Ouch. Once I was up and running again, I drove them down into town to another friend's house and he welded their parts back together. I got them back, we reinstalled it, and finally - as it was getting dark - we were all back on our way. Wheelers, no matter what they are driving or what language they speak, ar a very cool bunch. Of course, I never let them take a pick of my stranded Hummer, but I DID manage a shot of my H2 lighting them up for their repair.

All in all, a fun day and some new friends.

Sean

Another pic from an easy stretch of the trail...

That's mighty cool of both parties to help each other out.

Cool,That's what offroading is all about!

Looks like a cool place. Where was this at?

What trail did you run? Where?

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by alldunn:
Looks like a cool place. Where was this at? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Southern California - northern L.A. County. Rohwer Flats (it is NOT FLAT except for three staging areas). It's a great trail over several mountain ridges. Lots of steep ups and downs, loose dirt, sand, rocks, SHARP ROCKS, and even shale. The County signs have it as three diamonds - whatever that means with L.A. County. Very pretty though. Ended up not going all the way through, so I will be back ASAP!

Sean