Ever had a day of wheeling that the trails simply rejected your very presense? Well that was our day at Walker. Did it help that it had rained the entire week before? No, but that’s how trails change and it makes for a more challenging day. Eric and Don in the 62, and James and his friend Ben in the 40 took on the task to play in the mud. What was thought to be a gloomy day turned out very nice. We decided it had been a while since we ran the trails starting with Lower Mainline, so we decided to start there.  Read more...

Eric and Whitney were nice enough to bring Don and the kids along, based on the forecast for rain. We met up with Kevin and Wayne, and picked up a couple mini trucks in the parking lot which Wayne had invited along. All was going smooth until Eric freshly dented the rear door that he just replaced on Pat’s Trail. Don was sitting next to that door so he gets to keep the spotter cow bell. All was still well until we went up Expressway. Eric made short work of the upper half of the rock face, without needing a winch. Wayne decided to tackle the entire obstacle, and after many attempts got through the bottom half only to roll his truck on it’s lid before getting to the upper half. We used Eric’s rear winch with a snatch block to pull him upright and Wayne’s winch to pull it forward to stable ground to pull the plugs. Wayne was fine but his driver’s door is toast. When we all reached the top, someone noticed the the rear pinion angle was high on one of the mini’s driven by Larry AKA Flip. At that time it was noted that all the link arms were loose. After spending some time adjusting and tightening those we were off again.  Read more...

With an itch to try out the new manual transmission and twin sticks in the Eric’s 62, Eric, Tony and his kids, Don and his son went out to Walker with both the wagons. We lucked out with a nice day of sun, but still had a brisk breeze from time to time to make you want to stay in the vehicle with the heaters on. This was also a chance to play with a new camera for wheeling, a GoPro Hero camera.  Read more...