At the start of Axle Alley we stopped for a lunch break and I checked over my rig for loose bolts.  I think it was about 11:30 before we started up the trail.

This is the last climb on Axel Alley and the only one I hadn't been able to climb previously.  After two second gear, flog the squirrel attempts my rig started to climb but my motor bogged down and stalled.  I was able to then re-start it, put it in first and easy up the face.  The previous night I had had welded a piece of steel just in front of where my t-case mount is welded to the underside of the frame rail.  This spot had hung me up before but by grinding the steel piece into a wedge shape I had hoped it would now ramp up and over the ledge,  It appeared to have worked.

Brian also made it unassisted.

Overdose is a pretty long drive from Axle Alley.  This trail is pretty short and contained the one obstacle that nearly stopped us.  I had climbed this beg ledged before but now there was mud at the top.  I tried it a few times with no luck, looked for a winch point but found none.

Brian tried giving me a push with his rig but his push bar ended up over my cage so in effect he held me down.  We finally got my rig up with heavy use of the throttle and two guys pushing on the rear tubing and eventually the rear axle as the rig clawed it's way up the face.

We did the same for Brian and moved on to the last trail, Bad Medicine.

I had never run this trail so we took a little extra time making sure we were on the right one.  I knew there was a large waterfall/chute at the end.

Which we eventually found and climb to the top.  We headed back to Lower Woodpecker were we had started a little after 8am.  Our clock showed 2:33pm, roughly 6 and a half hours.  I ran Erik back to his motor home so he could get home and catch some time with his in-laws who had come in the night before.  Brian was heading home as well so I headed back out to see if I could find the other guys and get some pictures.  I drove out to Axle Alley and Overdose but didn't see anyone.  With the sun going down and my hands starting to get cold I headed back to camp and started a fire.  The gang eventually started trickling in.

Since most of us lived on the westside we decided to try and beat the freeway closures and head home.  the above shot is the sunset, here's a link to the full sized image, it makes a good wallpaper, you may have to right click on that link and select save-as to copy it to your computer.