Well I managed to sneak another trip in with the truck for our annual New Years Day run. I didn’t get to wheel the truck as much as I would have like to have as 3 of the Jeeps I was running around with suffered some failures (Dead hub/locker, Popped shaft, no start). Since the trucks future looks bleak, I haven’t spent any time fixing things on it, so onto the trailer it went for the ride down: <a href=”http://saral.zenfolio.com/p702483558/ea6eff2c”><img…

We took several Noob’s out for their first time to run around a local park. Managed to run about 10.3 miles of trails on the mostly easy stuff:

This is the first time I’ve been down to Washita since the new ownership has taken over. While they aren’t open as much as they used to be, the park is better marked than it has ever been! It’s been over a year since I’ve made the trip down there so it was nice to get back to the old stomping grounds, even if it was 200°F out side! Needless to say it was extremely dry which limited traction quite…

I forgot how much fun it was to write my name in the snow No real damage to report. I did mange to put a decent ding in the tailgate, and my fan appears to be trying to eat something as well, and I bent my rear DS again. Otherwise, no issues!. Heck, even the doubler stayed together! Travel: Things started out snowy in O-Town: And the white stuff kept building up on the way down: Washita, was beautiful with…

Covered about 7 miles on this trip: Shot of most of the group… Wee bit dry and dusty out there. The dust wasn’t too bad once you jumped onto the trails the dust settled down quite a bit: Videos, I was lazy and didn’t edit them this time: Link to all the photos as a slideshow (Click me!) All and all a good day carnage wise. One popped D30 shaft, one dead U joint on the ranger, and two wore…