I didn't get too many pictures because it was too windy and cold and I was enjoying the heater in the Cherokee






I was busting trail and slid off the road... there was a little bit of fresh snow on top that was powder and the wind was making some big drifts:

I made a full throttle run at this drift and it was like hitting a brick wall.. there was no climbing or winching over this one:


So we started digging a trench to go around it, this reminded me a little of digging trenches back in the day on our runs to the Blues. We eventually dug enough to get past this spot:

We came to a point where the road split, the way we wanted to go was too drifted in and had a pretty big climb, pretty much the end of the line. So we were turning around to go try the other road.. during the turn around process Lee has his lockers on a broke the ears off the outer axle shaft. The inner axle was pulled and Lee was left with 3 wheel drive.







On the way back down Lee had more bad luck and lost the lug nuts and the wheel came off. We think all the snow and ice that was packed around the disc and the wheel melted and caused the wheel to loosen enough for the lug nuts to back off. Lee checked them again after driving a bit and they were loose again.

