Have you seen the video from a few years back on Lion's Back. This kid is going down in his C-5 Blazer when everything lets loose. He goes down 3/4 of that beast without even slowing down  Scary stuff.  I'm bringing my parachute and increasing the old life insurance if I try next year.  

It was terrifying.
It was exhilarating.
It was almost as good as sex (really great sex).

My but you are easy to please

LOL

I Saw that video that was crazy......you don't get the full effect until you see the pictures inside bobzooki's rig on the way down. Its crazy.

What had happen in that bad decent event was that they ran up with the parking brake on to help activate the lsd they had in the rear. Up top, they had a hell of a time turning around, but they kept the rpm's up to get it turned. On the decent, female driving down, she had to push the gas, and hold the brake to manuever it. Then parking brake cable on one side broke, rpm's up, it started to go, her holding the brakes heated them enough that they didn't hold. Then accel cable brakes and she had no control of the rpms. Something gives underneath and rpms stay up. She did all she could do with the loss of brakes, and accelerating down the hill. That was amazing is that they were able to 'almost' walk away from the end result.

As for Lion's Back, I went up in 2001 and that was a blast. I used my 92 Bronco and it was only locked in the rear (ARB front open), 4.56's diffs, 2.71 t-case (stock), old tired 302 w/auto on 35 MTR's. Going up was like a rocket ship blast. All you see is the sky and if you look outward, everything is at a great angle. Tried to hold a soda can and it was almost vertical. My inclinometer was over 30 degrees. Surprisingly, up top, the rock gets much wider and that in itself is misleading. You never know where the 'edge' is as it's always rolling over.  Lots of small wells up there and there is actually a large area to do a complete 180.
Going down, just 1st low and let it idle down, feathering brake here there to keep everything......it's like you are trying not to tear the head off the stripped bolt. Just enough to get by, but not enough to snap the head off....

I will definately participate next year in the X.

So is the entrance at the bottom the steepest part of the climb? There seems to be alot of rubber on it (could be from getting the sand off though) :-/

Lots of small wells up there and there is actually a large area to do a complete 180.

I never saw a wider place - how far do you have to drive?  I went about 200 yards from the crest, and it didn't get any wider.

Yes, the first 50 feet or so is definitely the steepest - I'm guessing almost 60 degrees.  The rest is more like 45 degrees.

Here's one Lion's Back Crash Link:

http://www.moabtimes.com/issues/2002/020404/images/lionsback.html

Here's the Video:

http://members.cox.net/ttward7/Lionsback%202.wmv

I never saw a wider place - how far do you have to drive?  I went about 200 yards from the crest, and it didn't get any wider.

Yes, the first 50 feet or so is definitely the steepest - I'm guessing almost 60 degrees.  The rest is more like 45 degrees.

Here's one Lion's Back Crash Link:

http://www.moabtimes.com/issues/2002/020404/images/lionsback.html

Here's the Video:

http://members.cox.net/ttward7/Lionsback%202.wmv

On the top, I was going from memory and thought there was one. You were there last week, so hopefully your memory is better than mine. LOL.  

The photos looks like a XJ that went over to the right into the small revine. The video is of the 'You Gotta See This' show which is the one I reflected on. Again IIRC.  If you review the video, take a look at the white shirt just as the Blazer comes off the side and hits the ground. Wow, the impact!