On Sat Sept. 19 I hitched a ride with Jim Gaymon to run a rough road. We were guided by Josh of Dakota Customs on a creek bottom trail with road number 8284 near Nemo named Iceman. The rough part was a little over a mile long, and it was an in and out road, so obstacles had to be conquered going each way. It was a fun run, and I also filmed some with the GoPro Hero tiny video camera.
Here are the Boatmans being spotted by Josh as they roll over a steep drop.
This is a better view of the drop.
A tree had fallen across the road. Some pushing raised it a little, but a stub of a branch was hanging down too far for the height of our jeeps, so Josh got out his chain saw and took off the offending stub, below. What a guy!
Key Pysick successfully got over this obstacle. Some chose to take the bypass instead.
Boatmans made this one look easy, but with some spotting!
Jim had to do some careful wheel placement on this one.
After lunch, on the way back Ken wanted to tackle going over these two boulders. Marks on them showed that others had tried, and perhaps some of them made it.
This was as far as Ken got in three tries – with lots of rock stacking and spotting help.
The Boatmans also tried, hoping that their shorter wheelbase would be the answer to them getting over it. Unfortunately, the trailer hitch dragged so they had to back off.
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