Thanks Zig for posting those pics so fast!
We met sunday at 9 am in my dads yard. I could tell by how eager everyone was it was going to be an eventful day. There was about 3-4 inches of snow and we were all ripping donuts in the campground.... just all around hammering around untill everybody got there.
then we split into 2 groups, 6 trackers + 1 sami went over to do some jumping and 4 basicly tube chassie rigs went over to the extreme hills. Obviosly I went with the tracker group. The whole day was full of great wheeling from begining to end but the best photos were definatly of the jumping. The top photo is the first of two jumps made by Blake Savages rig. His freind Kenny Crowel was driving both times, they were kinda sharing the rig that day. The first jump was so smooth that he went back for a second run... way back
like another 50 feet back for a better run.
He was just haulin ass at the jump (est 35-40mph) when the rig started loosing speed as it was approaching the jump and it lobbed over since it didnt have the power to lift the front as it went over the jump. It did a nose plant and stopped dead in its tracks!
If it werent for the prerunner it surely would have went over on the lid. Quite a spectical.
I still cant belive it but it still wasnt broke! Bent up the prerunner pretty good though. The 3rd pic is Chunk and 4th is Dan Bour also catching some nice air. After seeing the Blake and Kenny's jump I didnt even attempt a jump since nothing could top that jump... so we moved on to doing smoky donuts on blacktop. NO Im not full of crap. Dan, Chunk, and Blake were all burning the tires off thier rigs. Ive got video of it too. Im still tring to figure out how to watch it. I did it with my digital camera so Im sure its low quality, but like I said, I havent tried to watch it yet. Then we went on to the harder trail ridding that we normally do. I cant belive how good my Krawlers worked. I really thought they would suck on the Ice and snow but I was way wrong. I made every hill I tried. We wheeled on into the night before heading home around 6 or 7 pm. A day I wont soon forget.
Mike
