Bill Moore Lake & Spring Creek 1-23-10

Well, today was a blast!!  I got to finally get the JK out on something other than pavement.  I met up with Don at the burger king near Empire and we headed out to Bill Moore Lake.  We made it past the steep hill section but got denied about half way up the trail.

Here is the base of Bill Moore Lake

Trail going up:

I don't have a picture of the snow drift that stopped us (although it looked like someone slid down the bluf about 5 feet at the spot we stopped).

Here is a picture very close to where we stopped

Given that we were denied at Bill Moore lake and it was still early in the day we decieded to see how far we could make it up spring creek, given that it is only a mile or so away anyway.

We actually got further up spring creek than we did Bill Moore Lake!

Here is the creek at the bottom of the trail

Heading up...

This is my FAVORITE picture so I thought I would share..

Here is where we got stuck and poor Don had to change his pants after this!!  He slid to the very edge of the bluff in a drift while trying to push through it... a little shovel work to give him some ruts to drive in kept the jeep on the trail..

On the way back down I was determined to find something to flex up the suspension and see what rubbed and what didn't...

This is all i could find.

The back tire is going to need a little clearance work.

It also looks like i need to tube fender or get to cuttin...

Don flexing up.

It was a great day, and a good trip!  I got owned coming back down I70 as Don flew by me in his 5.7L Hemi!!  I was doing good to hold 50-55 LOL!!

I was VERY impressed with the ride and ability (what little I did with it) of the JK!