January
12, 2002 - The annual winter
trips up to this remote location are of a different
variety. Not everyone who make this trip up into the
mountains of PA are here for the 4 wheeling. Some come
for the beer. Beer around the camp fire, beer at the bar
and beer at breakfast. It's sort of become an annual
event in our group but it's not all about the beer.
Winter trips up here vary from the kind of weekends where you
can hit almost every trail in these valleys to those where
you're lucky if you can get back to the cabin. This trip
was one of those better kind for 4 wheeling. Our group
consisted of a good handful of 4x4's of the Jeep and Toyota
variety along with an earlier bone stock Ford Bronco II which
did surprisingly well. The weather was decent with a
mainly cloudy cold weekend and not as much snow as expected.
Saturday morning exploration...
After throwing a few logs on the fire at just about early
pre-dawn, I decided to head out for a run around the
property. I discovered an old logging trail visible only
because of the winters lack of underbrush and a little snow to
highlight the trail. What I found was a field at the end of
this trail which we later connected to a lower trail on the
property making a large loop that offered some challenging
navigation through the underbrush and over and around rocks.
Plans are to re-visit this trail in the spring to finish cleaning
it up and then blaze a new one to a large out-crop of rock that
looks promising to be a great destination to hang out. Best
of all is that it's on the property.
I know Darrell is
going to cringe when he sees this but here it goes
anyway... Friday night Darrell ditched it. While
attempting to do a u-turn the ditch grabbed his beefy
Ford hauling the quads in the back of the truck and on
the trailer he was pulling. We got the call that
he was stuck and came out to the main road to assist
him.
These were shots of the field
Surrounding pics were some playtime on a pile of
rocks. Seems everyone got into the fun. Carl was
showing off the serious flex of his TJ with a 4.5" Rubicon
Express lift.
After playing around on the rocks for a while we
headed down into the valley. Some years we aren't too
eager to descend down the narrow trails that overlook steep drop-offs
but this year with the lack of any serious snowfall it wasn't a
problem to explore most of the trails.
As with winter exploration, many of the
previously unseen old trails become evident due to the lack of
underbrush and the snow that highlights the trails as well as
where old trails used to be. What appeared to be a trail
that diverted off our much traveled trail was actually a dead
end. Thinking I found a shortcut up the hill what I
actually found was that old pine stump that grabbed hold of my
front suspension. I required a yank back from Steve in his
locked YJ. (pictured to the right)
January
12, 2002 - The annual winter
trips up to this remote location are of a different
variety. Not everyone who make this trip up into the
mountains of PA are here for the 4 wheeling. Some come
for the beer. Beer around the camp fire, beer at the bar
and beer at breakfast. It's sort of become an annual
event in our group but it's not all about the beer.
Winter trips up here vary from the kind of weekends where you
can hit almost every trail in these valleys to those where
you're lucky if you can get back to the cabin. This trip
was one of those better kind for 4 wheeling. Our group
consisted of a good handful of 4x4's of the Jeep and Toyota
variety along with an earlier bone stock Ford Bronco II which
did surprisingly well. The weather was decent with a
mainly cloudy cold weekend and not as much snow as expected.
