[Drake]

Bloody Hell!!! I just got my butt handed to me by this park! Some really fun stuff but I did some carnage today. Unfortunately I didn't get many pics or vids since it was just me and my buddy spotting me. I'm working on the vids now but here are the few pics he did take:

Here I am at the base of "Rev Limiter" after just having my pride decimated by "Goal Post". "DAMN TRAILER HITCH!!!"

And here's my passenger-side TRA after attempting "Thrill Hill". Prime example of what can happen with too much traction and a weak steering system.

The old one next to my trail spare which I should've had on in the first place because it's a calmini assembly.

Yes I'm having a blast! Get down here and help you @#$%

View from the top of "Water Boy"

"Tombstone" which ironically is where the death of my driver's side TRA occurred tragically ending a very promising climb. I had already made it up the two hardest ledges.

Proof that after going through all of that, my X still got me home.

A summary of the day would be that I was defeated by "Thrill Hill", "Goal Post" and "Tombstone". But I climbed "the Escalators", "Cry Baby" and several no-name slab crawls and had a blast. Ended the day in the mud pit just to get it dirty then called it a day.

 

[Jdubbau02]

looks like you had a blast man!! great pics

 

[Slugger]

Nice pics dude.. If I lived a little closer I would totally meet you somewhere to go wheelin'.

 

[Tuff]

awesome! looks like that was a blast!

Those dern 33's will root out just about every weak link in an xterra. hehe.

 

[vandebogart]

Nice pics!

 

[Drake]

Yeah it was a good time and with a little rain, that park could be a real clincher even on the easy trails. Lot's of slab crawls and big rock faces where you can just pretty much choose your own line over an area as wide as a football field.

I can definitely tell the difference in traction obviously. I rarely used 4WD and the few times I did use it, it was 4-low because of steep rock climbs.

They are having a "Swap Meet Run" in two weeks I believe it was so I will probably be headed back for that. It's a nice park. Well maintained and good guys working there that are willing to help stranded rigs. The only fault I have on it is the lack of mapping. The park opened in February and is continually adding new trails so it's near impossible to make an accurate map right now but most everything is looped so it's not like you're going to get lost.

The b**** of it is, I had just had my alignment done Saturday and now I've got to go back and have it done AGAIN!

I tried loading my video last night but youtube kept crapping out on me. Hopefully tonight, I can get it uploaded.

 

[Keyz18]

Nice pics Drake!

 

[Ricer-X]

sweet pix yo

 

[atekt]

Very nice Drake! Looks like a killer time!

 

[Drake]

Here's a link to the Mountainside ORP video library on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=mountainsideorp&view=videos

 

[hustle]

Looks like you had a blast Drake.

 

[skoobysx]

Looks like you had fun!! Good pics!

 

[Drake]

Here's a short video of what little I did and didn't do:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRahhmBOZNE

 

[TN4x4Xterra]

Nice pics!

 

[Screed]

Holy crapola! The Rev Limiter is almost vertical ! In the video it sounded like something snapped.

 

[Drake]

Holy crapola! The Rev Limiter is almost vertical ! In the video it sounded like something snapped.

Yeah the videos on youtube don't do it justice the way that angle does. My jaw dropped when I saw it because on other videos looking up the slope, it looked doable. I thought I snapped something too but a guy watching on an atv said it was just rocks ricocheting off of my skid plates. It was just so vertical that when my front-end would start bouncing, it would just walk itself down.

Goal Post was actually more vertical than that. I actually dragged my shackles on the rocks when I started up that one. Then my trailer hitch dug in.

 

[MTalley02]

Ouch on the TRA. Glad you had a trail spare. I'd have been stuck out there if it happened to me.

Thanks for the pics and videos. Looks like fun, regardless.

 

[TN4x4Xterra]

So from the way it sounds, the TRA was due to the stress of the bigger tires???

 

[Drake]

So from the way it sounds, the TRA was due to the stress of the bigger tires???

More or less. My tires were getting so much grip and the pathetic stock TRA's couldn't handle the strain and just folded. When my front-end would start bouncing, the tires would spin freely for just a second and then when they hit the ground again, they gripped and the TRA's couldn't withstand the stress.

I only had one trail spare which meant I had to try and fix one of the two I bent. I should have taken pictures on how I did it but for all the times I cussed my trailer hitch, it saved me at the end of the day. I took the TRA and ran it through the locking pin hole in the receiver then put a nut on the otherside to hold it in place. Then took a handle from a hi-lift jack and slipped it over the other end of the TRA (using two extra nuts I had to protect the threads) and straightened it out. It wasn't perfect but it gave me a straight"er" TRA that I knew would at least get me back home.

 

[Jdubbau02]

haha im sorry but that video is funny haha SNAP!!! drake screaming G0D [email protected]*N!!!