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Green 1997 Jeep Wrangler (TJ)

Blanca Peak, 8/6/2005

TrailDamage.com member since July 18th, 2003
 
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City: Lone Tree
State: Colorado
Zip Code: 80124
Age Range: 26-30
Workplace: Arapahoe County
Job Title: Sr Software Engineer

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TRAIL DAMAGE: Destroyed plastic Sahara sidesteps on many trails; Bent Tie-Rod at Spring Creek Trail's Rock Garden; Dented front left fender, paint scraped from three fender flares on boulders near French Creek, Holy Cross; Busted rear right shock on boulder at French Creek, Holy Cross; Tore front right lower control arm axle-mount from the axle at Devil's Canyon; Severely dented and twisted front drive shaft on Chinaman Gulch; Stock T-Case skid bent on Chinaman gulch; Tore right rear axle shock mount off on Carnage Canyon; left rear axle shock mount cracked and ready to break; Scratched paint on Hey Joe Canyon; Dented passenger-side of windshield frame hitting a tree branches on a sandy hill climb in Bull Canyon; Sheared the bar-pin for my rear left shock mount when I accidentally jumped a small hill on a sandy path in Bull Canyon (Moab), then proceeded to back over the then hanging shock, ruining it; Tore Left Upper Control Arm / Trackbar mount from Rear Axle while on Golden Spike Trifecta in Moab; Bolt attaching JKS Swaybar link to front Swaybar sheared after re-connecting while driving back to Alamosa from Blanca Peak; Tore passenger-side rear upper control arm mount from axle in Moab while on Top of the World trail; Busted front driver-side Dana 30 shaft u-joint in mud at Slaughterhouse; Found rear trackbar bracket torn in half from junk weld done by shop in Moab last year (Spring '05); Found u-joint in passenger-side long axleshaft for front Dana 30 half broken from some unknown trail; Exploded the stock power steering gear and pump on the road (no doubt from all the trail abuse); Half-ripped off passenger-side plastic sahara faring junk on Liberty; Tore a small hole in oil pan on Liberty; Bent driver-side TRE on tie-rod at Liberty; Broke spline grease collar free on front driveshaft on Liberty; Finally bashed my t-case skid plate up high enough to almost be a belly-up skid on Liberty; Tore two of the three layers of my soft top rear right corner on 21 Road; Severly bent and buckled front left fender on 21 Road; While on The Pickle in Moab, damaged the rear Dana 44 by twisting both axle shafts, shearing the right one, and breaking the ARB by hopping on the first obstacle; Bent Dana 44 Axle Housing (Still bent, eats R&P gears yearly) [Most all damage listed has been repaired in some way or another at this point; I omitted the details of the repairs because the list of damage is just getting too dang long as it is.]

Favorite Colorado Trail: Blanca Peak
Why? This trail ROCKS. Great scenery, and awesome technical stuff (and quite a bit of pucker-factor) on Jaws 1-3. Extremely close second is Liberty trail in the Independence Trail system. Blanca still wins, though, due to its overwhelminingly better scenery.

Favorite Utah Trail: Green Day
Why? Really fun trail with consistent challenges throughout, while still being doable for normal (non-buggy) rigs.

Least Favorite Trail: Hey Joe Canyon
Why? Encroaching trees WILL scratch your paint a LOT. Not worth it on a Jeep. If you have an ATV or Motorcycle (or don't mind longer trails on a bicycle), though, I do suggest doing this trail to the end to explore the abandoned Uranium mine at the end.