Peak Putters - Rimrock - Aug 18-19, 2007
Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 6:42 pm
This was a overnight tent campin run to Rimrock called by Curtis. We only had two rigs for this run, Curtis's CJ and my Comanche.
Saturday morning we left the tow rigs at the Ahtanum snow park. From there we headed up to Blue Lake and them up and over into the Rimrock trail system. I don't recall all of the trails we hit, but Curtis had it all mapped out.
Right away we came across a steep and rather tight hill, with some big boulders to avoid. I got a few new dents on this hill. Actually I got quite a bit of body damage, I was having a hard time fitting through some of the spots. Curtis came away without any body damage. Then not much later we had two more real loose and steep hillclimbs. We both had to really work at it and claw our way to the top.
Curtis planned on camping at a elk camp that he knows of along one of the trails, but we didn't cover as much ground as expected. It was getting late when we came out on a gravel road. We couldn't find a good camping spot so we headed down and camped at one of the campgrounds by Rimrock Lake. Curtis cooked up some darn good shrimp at camp!
It pretty much rained all Saturday night and morning. Sunday morning we packed up the tents and headed for the trail around 8:30am. It was cold and foggy. We were a little worried about the rain making the trails slick, but it actually seemed to help with traction. And it was so nice with no dust!
It was a great run and we covered a lot of trails. We met two other groups of Jeeps. One group was from the West side, and I'm not sure where the others were from. One of them recognized my Jeep from EWOR.
Also we came across a Forest service Jeep. It was a Rubicon and had stickers I believe said "enforcement and education". Apparently they had a report of a broken down YJ and they were looking for it.
I only got two short videos.
This first one is Kristen trying to film us going up the first nasty hill climb. I was trying to avoid a tree on my side, but I didn't miss the one on the passenger side:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdQW5af4kCo[/youtube]
And here is Curtis going up one of the steep loose hill climbs:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0QTnPcqnH0[/youtube]
Here we are at Blue Lake on Saturday morning:
On top of the lookout:
Dropping down into Rimrock:
Right away we hit a pretty good mud hole:
I got too far to the left and it started getting deep.
I tried to back up but wasn't moving, so I had to push forward:
We had water coming in the floor but I made it through.
This was a real tight spot.. Curtis squeezed through ok.
I gave it shot, but I was just too wide and had to take the bypass:
This was a very off camber hillside:
These pics are from Sunday.. a little foggy and cold.
Saturday morning we left the tow rigs at the Ahtanum snow park. From there we headed up to Blue Lake and them up and over into the Rimrock trail system. I don't recall all of the trails we hit, but Curtis had it all mapped out.
Right away we came across a steep and rather tight hill, with some big boulders to avoid. I got a few new dents on this hill. Actually I got quite a bit of body damage, I was having a hard time fitting through some of the spots. Curtis came away without any body damage. Then not much later we had two more real loose and steep hillclimbs. We both had to really work at it and claw our way to the top.
Curtis planned on camping at a elk camp that he knows of along one of the trails, but we didn't cover as much ground as expected. It was getting late when we came out on a gravel road. We couldn't find a good camping spot so we headed down and camped at one of the campgrounds by Rimrock Lake. Curtis cooked up some darn good shrimp at camp!
It pretty much rained all Saturday night and morning. Sunday morning we packed up the tents and headed for the trail around 8:30am. It was cold and foggy. We were a little worried about the rain making the trails slick, but it actually seemed to help with traction. And it was so nice with no dust!
It was a great run and we covered a lot of trails. We met two other groups of Jeeps. One group was from the West side, and I'm not sure where the others were from. One of them recognized my Jeep from EWOR.
Also we came across a Forest service Jeep. It was a Rubicon and had stickers I believe said "enforcement and education". Apparently they had a report of a broken down YJ and they were looking for it.
I only got two short videos.
This first one is Kristen trying to film us going up the first nasty hill climb. I was trying to avoid a tree on my side, but I didn't miss the one on the passenger side:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdQW5af4kCo[/youtube]
And here is Curtis going up one of the steep loose hill climbs:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0QTnPcqnH0[/youtube]
Here we are at Blue Lake on Saturday morning:
On top of the lookout:
Dropping down into Rimrock:
Right away we hit a pretty good mud hole:
I got too far to the left and it started getting deep.
I tried to back up but wasn't moving, so I had to push forward:
We had water coming in the floor but I made it through.
This was a real tight spot.. Curtis squeezed through ok.
I gave it shot, but I was just too wide and had to take the bypass:
This was a very off camber hillside:
These pics are from Sunday.. a little foggy and cold.