The weather was perfect. It was the first trip trailering my Jeep longer than an hour. The Whale and trailer worked wonderfully, comfortably getting Melissa and I to our destination in about the same time we were used to back when we beat ourselves to death driving the ratmobile everywhere we went. Once at Turkey Bay, we found that we had arrived minutes after the gatehouse had closed for the day. Oh well, that can be taken care of Saturday morning. Just as we pulled into camp, I snagged a tree root with the tongue jack of my trailer, and ripped it off (the jack). At least the trailer wasn’t damaged. The next day, we hit the trails. Jimmy said we did something in the neighbor hood of 43 miles all weekend. Rather than try to write a long story about the trip (although I could have if I had started on it right after we got back), I will let the pictures do the talking.        Rat

June 25-27, 2004

LBL Trip

Left– Emma Dryden gets up close and personal with a mud hole that didn’t look that deep to her dad.

 

Right– Sandy Dryden carries a tire while gassing her way through a section of Jimmy’s “twister trail”.

Left– Mutt makes short work of “the big rut”

 

Right—new friend Adam Winkel doesn’t have quite the luck as Mutt. A quick correction with the winch, and the potential rollover was averted.

Left– Rich starts up the rock pile. A neat obstacle, made even more rewarding by the fact that it is perched at the edge of a very big hill.

Right– McBill lifts a tire on the Twister Trail. Are you starting to see a pattern to this trail yet?

Left—Jimmy leads us into one of the many trails we covered over the weekend

 

Right—Wink shows off what his XJ can do, and why I keep calling this trail “Twister”