September 2002 - Bumble Bee Creek
Trail Rating - 3.5, 4.5+ optional
Trip Leader: Mike Pitts
Photos submitted by Chris Villarreal, Ken Blaisdell
These pictures are from the Rough Riders annual Rocks, Rocks and More Rocks run. I was up all night the night before trying to finish all the last minute stuff on my rig, I was still putting tools away after I took it off the trailer.
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Bumble Bee Creek is really short. The wash is sandy up to this point and then you are presented with a lot of different lines.
The creek was running just enough to make the sandy act like quicksand. I wasn't having much luck trying the hard lines.
I even managed to get both differentials locked in behind rocks on the easy line, one reason I made my hi-lift jack easily accessible. By jacking the rig up via the rear tire I was able to push the back end so the differential was clear of the rock.
Nasser gave the hard line a go.
Jimmy was the only one who managed to crawl the hard line. For scale he is running 44" tires, notice in the first picture you can't even see his rear tire.
