Bill More Lake DUOR 7-2-06

[coaz4x4]

Today the DU Off-Road Club and friends ran Bill Moore lake. It was BEAUTIFUL out! The trail is 100% passable. Ran in to a few Jeeps, a couple of Land Rovers and a few Toys.

Sadly, only 5 photos from my POS digital camera are nice enough to view:
http://du.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2012145&l=c3f33&id=20204080

If you were a part of this run, please post up your pics and commentary here!

[otisdog]

There's a billion mosquitos at the lake waiting to devour you. I had a really good time.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/otisdog4/Bill%20Moore%2006/bml11.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/otisdog4/Bill%20Moore%2006/bml10.jpg

The rest of my pics:
http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/otisdog4/Bill%20Moore%2006/?start=20
Jim

[jamie desoto]

how bad is this trail? ive been told its really hard but it doesnt look like it!

[pdrhound]

it had been a long time since i had been there. I think a could get a stock jeep in there. 1 loose moguly part and some bypassable ruts down by the lake.

It was a fun day and good company. I let my friend drive and enjoyed the view. Mosquitoes at the lake were horrible though.

[otisdog]

Nah it's not hard. It is pretty fun.
jim

[Zen 4x4]

I think everyone had a great time yesterday... Sorry for the delay in getting this pictures posted... :rolleyes:

Here is the link to 21 photos :D from yesterday...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/insitu/sets/72157594185131465/

Remember to double click on the thumb nail photos to see a larger version, then at the top of the photo, you can choose 'All Sizes' and get full resolution photos...

I had a great time with everyone, and hope that I see all of you again.

:)

[DADA_JEEP]

my wife followed in our stock s-10 blazer last year without a scratch

[mtngoat]

Easily doable in a stock jeep. This was one of my first trails. It is a lot of fun. That first option to the left will get you a nice 2-3' wheel stand on you left front if you don't disconnect your sway bar. Good tire placement and consistent momentum will get you up all the "hard" lines in a stock jeep.
The second little mogul like climb might take a run or two.

I am thinking about taking my uncle up there in a Liberty or Grand so I will let you know.

-Dave

[jamie desoto]

im just worried now cause i ripped the torsion bar off my truck on johnny park trail. slipped off the line and high centered.. no fun.. id rather not destroy my daily driver !! haha

[MrK5-Scott]

it had been a long time since i had been there. I think a could get a stock jeep in there. 1 loose moguly part and some bypassable ruts down by the lake.

It was a fun day and good company. I let my friend drive and enjoyed the view. Mosquitoes at the lake were horrible though.
That's why I've started carrying OFF in the glove box. Those darn things seem to love feasting on me.:(

[WhiteRubi]

The trip was a lot of fun, very easy four wheeling. Maximus and my self had a blast, although max said there weren't enough tootsie pops. If you are wondering if a tootsie pop is some obscure 4x4 slang for a muddy log or something, it?s not. It?s a piece of candy. Takes 3 licks to get to the tootsie center, at least according to the owl. Max is 2. As confirmed by the fact that he was probably the only one on the trip to say during a slow precipitous rocky decent, ?Can I have some chips?? Again not slang. Thinly sliced potatoes, fried in oil, invented by George Crum (kind of ironic if you have kids, see below) in 1853, hard to spell (at least if you hold the second highest office in the land), you know the rest. But I guess the lack of tootsie pops is my fault, not really anything to do with the trail. I think a stock jeep would have no problem with this trail, as long as you don?t mind the shrieking sound of metal rubbing against rock. My LTJ is stock (as long as you don?t consider a stock rubicon an oxymoron) with the sway bar still connected and max didn?t even drop a single chip the whole trip. O.K. that is not exactly the truth, He dropped a lot of chips, in fact he dumped the crumbs (for irony see above) from the bottom of the bag all over him self, but again he?s 2, that is his job, again nothing to do with the trail. The only thing I found difficult was having that extra 10? of wheelbase, I just can?t clear the same sections as clean (and by clean I mean that my trasfer case cover took a beatting like you would for insulting a mobster's mother) as the SWB TJs. And they say size doesn?t matter, but that would be the other way?never mind. Other than the 1? deep dent in my transfer case cover and bringing home enough mud wedged in my under carriage to stock an Aveda spa for a month, it was well worth it.

[pdrhound]

we had OFF it was no help

[coaz4x4]

no repellent would stay off those bugs... it was bad...

[jamie desoto]

i think i got it whiterubi.. i think.. i got kinda lost in the middle but i think i got it.. i have a 83 nissan truck ext cab long wheelbase so i shouldnt try this trail huh?

[Walking Eagle]

how bad is this trail? ive been told its really hard but it doesnt look like it!

I was up there on the 4th in my stock Bronco. The street tires spun a couple of times trying to get traction, but I made it through the moguls. And, yes the mosquitoes suck at the lake.

[WhiteRubi]

I?m not at all saying that you shouldn?t do this trail. It really isn?t that bad at all. My perspective is that I have a four month old jeep that had never been off road. All I do is park it in the driveway and rub it with a cloth diaper. The first scratches, dents and dings are the hardest to take, everything else after that isn?t as bad, until you roll it over. There is nothing on that trail that I saw that posed any serious problem for a stock 4x4, unless you are in an outback or something that is too big to fit on the trail. It?s as easy or as hard as you want it to be. Just good fun four wheeling.

[jamie desoto]

cool im prolly gonna go up this week sometime