If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is worth a million words.  Read the trip report below, then watch the video highlights from last weekends run.  Wet weather wheeling is always a blast compared to the same trails when dry and last weekends run was no exception.

Update- 12-12-07 - I added some pictures that Jay took, he was my passenger on this trail ride and when he wasn't riding he was getting some great shots on foot.

After two very wet weekends the washes are moving pretty good out there.  In this photo any remnants of a road are now gone.

We tried crossing this wash in the early morning hours but couldn't find a shallow enough spot to go across.

We ran up Raider Nation, about the only trail out there that didn't require a river crossing. 

 Everything went smoothly and the right line on the last waterfall is still proving elusive as all of us gave it a good effort but ended up pulling cable.

We returned to the river a few hours later to find the water level was down about two feet, however the entrance to S&M was still blocked by a very deep section of water.

We decided to drive around to the exit of S&M and drive down the trail, then drive up it.  To the best of my knowledge this was a first with the full pools of water. I was in the lead and drove down all the falls forward, for some reason I couldn't convince Cary or Mark to do the same...... 

This was the big challenge, driving down the ledges into the deep pools of water at their bases.  There were two really deep spots, this one and the next one.  Cary stalled his rig out here after getting water in the distributor.  

This was the second deep spot, Cary made it but Mark stalled out his rig due to water in the distributor.  My motor didn't mind the water, besides having no distributor the motor is pushed far enough back that only the radiator and fans went underwater when I came down the ledges.

I drove down the first fall forward and felt the rear tires pop up as I touched down at the bottom, a quick tap of the gas kept all four tires on the ground. Cary chose to back down the fall.  After that I lined up on the right side line and gave it a few tries with the amount of go pedal that usually works when it was dry.  The face of the fall had water trickling down it and the base was all mud so it felt like driving on ice.  I gradually gave it more and more gas pedal on subsequent attempts but to my amazement I couldn't get the tires to hook up and the rig would eventually slide right back down to the bottom.

Cary then suggested I try the left side line which I was avoiding.  Seeing that I gave the right side everything the buggy had I lined up on the left side, did a front burn to dry off the front tires then hit the fall with a moderate bump.  Amazingly the rig went up the first try on that side so it appears as if the left side is the best wet weather line and the right side is an easy dry weather line.

Cary gave both sides a go without any luck.  We eventually pulled him up due to avoid breakage as he wasn't able to get the transmission into neutral as he slid backwards, this caused his rig to torque over pretty hard when the rear tires touched down again which is how most people break stuff.  The fix is easy, he just needs to cut the shifter gate between first and neutral so it is a straight shot from second all the way back to reverse.  

None of us made the last fall, the running water did away with any traction we might have had.