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July 2, 2004 - Avalanche Ranch Our club had such a good time in Colorado last year that we decided to go back and do it again this year. My wife and I left for the Avalanche Ranch on Thursday afternoon, everybody else headed out early Friday morning. The trip is a hair over 500 miles from Phoenix, a solid 10 hour drive taking into account gas stops and traffic. By the time we reached New Mexico we knew the weather was going to be great, the temperature dropped steadily as we gained altitude, peaking around 6000 feet.
(Click for larger images) We arrived at the ranch around noon and the rest of the club arriving pulled in between 2-3pm. After setting up camp we decided to run the trails we ran at night last year during the day this year. With plenty of daylight left we headed over to Sidewinder.
The trail seemed totally different during the day. We didn't really have any problems but then again most of us had four linked suspensions in the rear unlike last year where the majority of us still had leaf springs. Tire sizes had also increased, while Mark and I were still running 37's, Jack now had 40's and Scott borrowed some 42's for the trip. Tire size really wasn't an issue on this trail but it made a big difference on some of the trails we ran later in our trip.
The first casualty of the trip, Scott broke a shackle bolt. He is planning to change his shackle design to eliminate this failure point by using a shackle that flairs out on top. This will allow the shackle to pivot more side to side without the bolt head taking all the load.
Traction is great here although there are some spots where a little wheel spin helps like this ledge.
Scott's rig with the 42's, it looks good....
After dinner we ran Deuces Wild which was really short and easy so afterwards we started into Alien.
Messing around on the first big ledged resulted in my rig on it's lid.
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