Andrew and Troy getting a little tippy.

This is as far as I made it last time, I broke a rear axle here a few years back and never had a running buggy on subsequent return trips with the club.

Playing with some of the local wildlife.

Andrew broke u-joint on his front drive shaft here.

While we were waiting for repairs to be made, Cameron took a short cat nap.  Upon waking he continued his reign of terror by throwing rocks and sand in random directions.

Parking was a bit tight.....

This section is affectionately referred to as "The Screw" because if you fall in you are screwed. Nobody fell in but there were some exciting moments. Here is my run thru the last half of this obstacle on video.

Link to another video showing me traversing a small waterfall.

Attempting the big nasty. The hole on the left which swallowed my front tire prevented me from crawling this one so I tried a couple full throttle assaults. The motor had plenty of power and the blower spooled up almost instantly but I just couldn't clear the belly and the drivers side front tire kept ending up in the hole and undercut.

Video of one of my attempts.

Video of Craig breaking a rear axle.  It looks like he wedged his Krawler in the crack on the drivers side, right after he gives it some gas (listen for the turbo spooling up) the axle lets go.

Video of one of Barry's attempts.

Craig made a few attempts and eventually broke a rear axle (toy rear end).
Scott stripped a rod end out of his tie rod disabling his rig and Andrew popped a rear axle just before this obstacle and then a front hub after winching up the fall disabling his rig. Troy was the only one to crawl this one after a few tries, he stayed high and to the left.

We piled everyone into the 4 remaining rigs and tried to outrun a brewing storm. We didn't quite make it. We had some problems on the last obstacle and then the rain hit us. These were big rain drops coming straight down making it hard to see. We hunkered down under our tarped buggies for close to an hour before deciding we needed to make a run for it since the weather wasn't letting up.

I was now tail end and the ride back was uneventful until I lost a rear tire. At first I thought it was flat but upon closer inspection the tire pulled clean out of the bead lock. I just happened to get stopped in a batch of thick clay like mud and the tire was just filled with the stuff. I managed to get the tire off the rig with my hi-lift (which I almost left home). I was going to pull the ring and re-assembly the wheel combo but after wiping the mud away I discovered I was missing a lot of the bolts for the bead lock ring. We ended up waiting for Barry to come back and find us, he then went back to camp for a spare tire. Luckily this new motor throws off a lot of heat because we were soaking wet and it was pretty cold on the top of the hill. It took two of us to lift the new spare, after rolling it from his buggy to mine it had collected another 30lbs of mud.

We eventually rolled back into camp around midnight. After a few hours rest we headed out in the morning and recovered the two rigs we left.

This was also our first test of the new motor home.  It was pretty slow on the hills but once at camp it was really nice having all the comforts of home at your fingertips, especially after an 18 hour day on the trail.  Things will go much smoother if we remember to close the vents before heading off to the trail for the day.  Let's just say things were a little wet when we finally got back to camp.