99's Dome Peak Snow picture run (Oct 20th, 2007)

[Beep Beep]

99's Dome Peak Snow picture run

Saturday October 20th, 2007 we met up at Nasty Creek Corals and aired down.
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We headed up onto the Strobach Mountain Trail. It wasn't to far in until we hit snow.
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This is the first open area after the tight part of the Strobach Mountain Trail. The Tweety Jeep caught a lot of snow from the low tree branches.
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It was really cold up on 4W613.
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We stopped here to let Fatboy lead the way up the hill climb.
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That didn't work so well.
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I tried to go around him.
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Fatboy backed up and took another run at the hill.
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That still didn't work to well. We worked our way around Fatboy. BecauseSheLetsMe came close to Fatboys TJ.
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Colemancooler did well on the climb with his siped Swampers.
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BecauseSheLetsMe crawled up the hill since he was lock on both ends. He said it was the Iroks at 5 lbs. His carb wasn't working to well though.
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Test Dummy did well running open. The TrXus MTs seem to grab well at 8 lbs.
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I aired down a little more to 7 lbs. That helped my MT/Rs grab. Fatboy also aired his MT/Rs down to 7 lbs. He did have to winch back onto the trail.

Here is the meadow at the top of the climb.
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A nice view of the Yakima Valleys.
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On to the Dome Peak Fire area for 99's pictures.
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We turned around at this point since it was to late to have a winch fest on the next hill climbs. We didn't want to do it in the dark with having the kids with us.

Here is a cold picture back on Strobach Mountain.
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We ran into Phantom 309's group coming up from Louie Way Gap. They were doing some rig repairs as we were heading back out the Strobach Mountain Trail. This is a fun trail.
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This was a fun run thanks to the people that came along.

[OldGreen]

Someone ran UP Louie Way to the Divide in the snow? THAT sounds like a really, really good time. <!-- s:mrgreen: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_mrgreen.gif" alt=":mrgreen:" title="Mr. Green" /><!-- s:mrgreen: -->

[Beep Beep]

Someone ran UP Louie Way to the Divide in the snow? THAT sounds like a really, really good time. <!-- s:mrgreen: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_mrgreen.gif" alt=":mrgreen:" title="Mr. Green" /><!-- s:mrgreen: -->

It took them hours to go 3 miles. They started around 8 AM and we meet them around 4 PM. They had breakdowns and took on carnage. PHANTOM 309 was soaking wet and cold so they didn't finish the trail up to Foundation Ridge. They followed us back down the Strobach trail. I am glad I didn't go with them.