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The week before
the trip was Four
Wheelers Top Truck Challenge. When the first people
in our club pulled in there were still a few of them in camp packing
up. If you want to know, the winner of Top Truck Challenge
2004 is HERE! If not, just stay tuned
for the video and magazine article! We heard all sorts of
great stories about the goings on of this years TTC... its going to
be a great video!
My kids wanted to
play in the TTC rig of course!
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Because
the camp ground was reserved for our group and only 4 people ended up
camping, we had the whole area to ourselfs! It was actually
quite nice.
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Saturday
morning at around 10am we met at the school house and headed up to the
obstacle course area to play.
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We
had already heard that the mud pit was bad, then the TTC people added
1000 gallons of water to make it interesting.
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Needless
to say, no one made it through!
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After
playing for a little while, we split into two groups. I led
the "easy" group. The first thing we did is had
everyone do the stair steps obstacle. Everyone made it!
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After
that we headed on a series of easy trails and headed towards the top of
the mountain.
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We
stopped in the quarry area to play for a few minutes.
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During
the time we were playing, a few rigs that were not with us showed up and
were also playing. There was a white Taco and a Chevy truck.
Quite a few from our group went over the mound, but the Chevy
got high centered. Good for him there was a Taco to
pull him out!
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After
that we headed on towards the top.
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At
the top we all took a few minutes to get out and look at the scenery.
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Another
shot of the group at the top. We then headed back down to
the obstacle course for a lunch break.
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After
lunch we headed up to the Fremontia / White Rock trail for some fun. This
trail is marked as a double black diamond trail, but I dont think its
really that bad. The trail ratings at Hollister are a little
off!
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Trucks
wating to make their run at the hill.
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The
trail has some back and forth ruts, then there is an area that is in a
very deep cut with holes and ruts. You can also see people
watching from the top.
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After
we came back down to the obstacle course area people were once again playing
around. There were some smaller mud holes that we were playing
in here.
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Another
run through the small pit.
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OOPS!
That looks a bit deeper!
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He
almost made it! The rear bumper was hung up pretty well. Lucky
for him there was someone to pull him out!
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Samuri with winch
to the rescue!
While we were playing
in the mud, the second group walked Tank Traps.... it was not pretty!
After that we had some dinner and people headed home.
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Since
we were staying the weekend, we went back up to play in the obstacle course
area. This is a picture of Cory from the Santa Rosa club doing
the Squeeze obstacle. I did the obstacle also and was almost
through when I had a brake failure.
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The
brake line broke in a place that is should not have. I guess
it was just a defective part. We were able to make a trail
repair and get home. For info on this look HERE.
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6-14-2004
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