Billings Canyon, Grand Junction, CO

[wallysheata]

Couple of my buddies have been hounding me to post up the trip report so here ya go. Badbuggy (green CJ buggy), Wardenbf (orange CJ buggy), Eric (CAT Samuri buggy) Danny (green yoto on 44's), Mike (red buggy), Bluexj (Red 4 Runner), JasonGJ (white TJ) and myself (blue CJ buggy) started off around 10:00am to what appeared to be a LONG DAY from the start, JasonGJ's ARB compressor was cracked and wouldn't hold air, so he stopped at the entrance to JBweld it, and the rest of us continued on. Mike got the gatekeeper and blew an Oring in his ORI shocks and puked a good amount of the gas/fluid out of it, then he decided to keep going and blew a bead off on his brand new MTR's and Stazworks, we put some air in his tires and he was good to go, after that, not a single problem all day, we just cruised right on through and hung out waiting for a group of yoto's from Glenwood that were behind us. On to the pics.

The oring that went bad at the bottom

Then Mike realized what those plastic pieces that came with his stazworks were for :lolly:

All fixed up, wardenbf gets the day going again.

Badbuggy's turn

Danny in the crazy rearsteer yoto

My turn

Eric in his "tough truck" Sami

 

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JasonGJ in his newly finished 1 ton TJ driving it with open diffs waiting for the JB weld to dry

Always going for the biggest line he can Bluexj pushes it with the 4runner

Danny Crabwalking

Mike taking the left line on the fin

 

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Eric going for it

Jasongj FINALLY turned on his ARB to get up this and it worked flawlessly

Bluexj's turn

Now there's a nice group of rigs, and you gotta laugh when the two smallest sets of tires in the group are 40" comp tires

Wardenbf leading the way again on the big line

Badbuggy's turn, no problem as usual

 

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Danny going for some AIR

Wardenbf FINALLY having some trouble

Rear steer is definately cool

Rallying toward the waterfall

 

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Shot from behind

Mike getting it on the waterfall

Eric getting some air

DENIED

Back up the regular line the rest of the kids who don't have 49's

JasonGJ

I was pretty certain bluexj was going to dump it here, but he drove right through

 

[Dirty Harry]

Cool pics, thanks for sharing! Billings and 21 Road have been on my to-do list for years, I am hoping that this fall I can finally head out to Junction and run them. Your photos are definitely inspiration.

 

[Herzog]

Great report Wally! That's a shit-ton of photos.

 

[Bobzilla]

Cool pics & a ton of them, looks like a you guys had a great time that's cool!

 

[wallysheata]

Great report Wally! That's a shit-ton of photos.

Thanks Shane, it's been to long since we've wheeled together, we need to hook up again espcially now that i have a new buggy, even kept the same paint as the ol blue YJ :greg:

 

[SmokinCamel]

Billings is one of the best kept, and done trails I know of. And its a blast. I would go back anytime and run it again Great pics too

 

[Herzog]

Thanks Shane, it's been to long since we've wheeled together, we need to hook up again espcially now that i have a new buggy, even kept the same paint as the ol blue YJ :greg:

We definitely need to hook up. I should be back on the trails early next year. Glad to hear you got the new buggy going!

 

[rondo]

Lovin' these pics. The white TJ looks like a guy i did billings with 2-3 yrs ago. Love the sami. If Suzuki made a 1 ton, i'd say that would be called a S350

 

[Goose]

sweet pics! looks like you guys had a blast!
fun trail, makes me want to get back down there.

 

[Badbuggy]

It was a great time for sure.

 

[toyota rockhead]

sweet rigs! looks like a blast thanks for the report

 

[ricsrx]

Thanks for posting, very nice rigs