BklynH2 crashes Rover Rally in Virginia

[BKLYNH2]

Hey all last weekend I got to attend the mid atlantic rover rallye near Charlottsville Virginia. There were over 400 off road vehicles there. All rovers except for me. I got invited to come by a frien who writes and photographs for Land Rover World Magazine. After getting a little flack from some of the rover crowd for crashing there party the H2 and I earned their respect and friendship. I made alot of great friends and learned alot about driving in mud.

[BKLYNH2]

Hey all last weekend I got to attend the mid atlantic rover rallye near Charlottsville Virginia. There were over 400 off road vehicles there. All rovers except for me. I got invited to come by a frien who writes and photographs for Land Rover World Magazine. After getting a little flack from some of the rover crowd for crashing there party the H2 and I earned their respect and friendship. I made alot of great friends and learned alot about driving in mud.

[BKLYNH2]

Halfway in.

[BKLYNH2]

Shoulda hit it faster.

[BKLYNH2]

Had to resort to the winch. I need mega mud tires.

[BKLYNH2]

Here's my friend Jeff in the series 2 rover. He just pulled the series 1 rover out of the river.

[KenP]

Great pics. Looks like you had a great time in the Commonwealth.
Glad you went for the deep stuff.

Black Lingenfelter Lux

[Zing]

Oh man what great photos, that's some serious mud.

When I first saw the thread headline I only read "Bklyn H2 crashes" and got nervous!

[BKLYNH2]

The trails were cut for land rovers not hummers

[Buckeye Hummer]

It looks like your up to your butt in mudd. This first pic is f'n wild. I'm not sure how deep that was but the way it was shot makes it look like it was completely undrivable. I vote for pic of the month.

Glad you got out, looks like the chain on the tree stayed there for many more.

[BKLYNH2]

Well it's getting late so I continue this tomorrow but I'll leave you with some pics of the more interesting rovers I saW.

[BKLYNH2]

THIS is actually a rover millitary vehicle.

[BKLYNH2]

This is as big a defender as you can get.

[BKLYNH2]

How about this for deluxe acommodations.

[BKLYNH2]

More H2 pics tomorrow. Hope we finally have a pic of the month comming because I don't know how more serious I can get,

[BKLYNH2]

Thanks for the vote Buckeye. I was the only one in my group that even tried the mud bath. It was almost exactly H2 sized if it were only larger I might have gotten a better run and got out of it without the winch.

[DURAMAX TIM]

Bklynh2, i got a set of General MT 35X12.5R-16.5 on white spoke rims for $540 but found out 2 days before our HH that the 16.5" steel wheels won't clear our brakes.
So as a last chance I grabbed some Mickey Thompson classic II and they fit w/ plenty of room.
So now I have $850 in my extra set of mud tires and rims (they really look good).
They worked great, on one of the mudding hill climbs we went right up in the H1 ruts after stopping at the bottom to roost some mud onto the roof .
On stock AT most took 2-4 tries and running start and stayed out of the ruts to make it up.
There were 3 of us that had MT and 17 w/ AT in our group.
At the rest points we had lots of ??? about the tires since we didn't have any trouble in any of the mud holes.
I think the next time most will be on them.

[This message was edited by DURAMAX TIM on 10-13-03 at 03:55 AM.]

[DURAMAX TIM]

BEFORE

[DURAMAX TIM]

Here's a pic of 36/12.5-16.5 Super Swamper TSL, they really look good on the H2.
These were bias ply and guys say they don't do good on packed snow so I didn't keep them.
Had plenty of room tho.

[BKLYNH2]

Tim-
A lot of the rovers that did well in the mud had a similar tread to yours. I drive this thing too much on the road to get anything more than the BF goodrich MTs, and can't expense a whole second set of wheels right now.