Black Hills Run 2017! June 19-23

Good morning John

Oilly - 

Edited by Joe Friday - 18 June 2017 at 2:56pm

Joe Friday wrote: Oilly -  I'm incredible jealous of your guests and thankful for your generosity to host them. I hope to make it to your place someday.

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Joe Friday wrote: ...but if anyone wants to discuss them we should move to a separate thread so we don't dilute this thread.  If you are running regular P-Metric tires on a trailer, remember they are de-rated by 10%

I'd be interested in another thread on this topic.

Rick

P.S. Yeah for those Texas boys! Everyone be safe and have a blast!

Here is a little tast of day 1 78 miles of Jeeping today that took us to Cement Ridge fire lookout, Roughlock falls and a drive through Spearfish Canyon. I believe 28 Jeeps. A great day!.



Lee

Thx for posting, Lee. Looking forward to seeing more!

Monday's run was very pleasing. No one had a huge problem with their Jeep. I like that. We did some mirror arm welding, topped off some gear oil, aired up tires, re-charged our radios, and we are ready. The next two days, tues./wed. look perfect to do the "skinny trails". These are two legs of the Centennial Trail that allow motorized vehicles 62 inches or less in width to travel. Wed. pm looks to have some evening or night time showers, and I want to do one leg of the ATV trail only when dry. It's all dirt. It's slanted and would be a problem if muddy. So, today the real fun that many have planned for begins. These folks have moved their spare tires to the rear, changed wheels and tires from fancy wide aluminum or chrome to prepare their Jeeps.  Well done my friends. I was shocked at the new look. Amazing how they look different. 600-16's and stock rims are antique. Cool looking all by themselves. The Cement Ridge Fire Lookout Forest Service employee, who sees mostly new ATV side by sides, was all smiles. She complemented us to my wife and said she was pleased to see the old Jeeps out on the trails. I get this every time I go Jeeping. Thanks to Lee for his videos. It takes effort to post them for all to see. I have extremely limited cell tower reception here and it's only getting worse. I need a hat with a dish on top.  Good thing the local bar in town has fiber optics and wifi. Poor Lee has to go there to post for you! LOL. I was pleased with the comments last evening. The group had their fix for the day of Jeep seat time, and I think all wanted that, including me. Today, it will hit a high tone. We are off to the Jeep go cart track. Pure , pure, fun. 

I was just out and checked over Dads Jeep, all good!. I am pleased with the new engine. Hopefully I'll have some interesting video to post this evening. Beautiful weather, a sweatshirt felt good most of yesterday..... off to breakfast!

Lee

Another!



Lee

Today we will finish the "Skinny" trail. Believe it or not, they log faster than I can believe. Many of the tight spacing trees had been removed. They also closed one leg of our run to my surprise . I had to adapt the route while in route. . Always something new to learn. We gained about 10 Jeeps this year and it surfaced a new problem that I was not ready for. No communication to the tail end. The ones in the rear were not hearing route advice and not keeping up. They got left. By the time I found that out, it was too late. No radio reception and no cell reception. We will have new rules today, new route maps all marked for tail gunner, and those with no radios will be up front with orders to stay with their wing man. I hate to limit some of the freedoms, but it's not fair to the rest for the few to do as they please.