Badbuggy
rock star
- Location
- Fruita, Co
There were 4 rigs from GJ planning an overnight to Area BFE. Being the Friday night of Labor day weekend, we expected big crowds out there. But when we got there we meet CSR and his Mosquito leaving, and leaving the place to us. We jumped in on Lockjaw for the warm up. It is a fun trail with a couple of hard lines that had us testing the metals of our rides. After the warm up, we went straight over to Greenday as it started getting dark. Taking all the hard lines coming up the ravine we came upon a rock with a deep cut in the left side. I was running in the front and thought I had the line just right, but no. I layed the buggy over ever so gently on the left side. Both right hand tires were sicking up in the air. I shifted to reverse, and found just enough tranny fluid to back up about 6 inches. I opted for a winch line to right my rig back to all fours. Then found the right line to drive it on up. Bob was next and made it look easy, Mike came next and foolishly followed my spotting to nearly the same predicament I had just gotten out of. After a back up he hit the sweet spot and climbed right up. By the time we got to suicide hill it was darker than the inside of a cow. Bob and I had tried it in the rain one day with out much luck, but this time Bob knew the line he wanted and drove right up. I chickened out and drove around. The first time I tried that hill I caught my buggy on fire..... but I digress. Peer pressure don't bother me. Mike put his front wheels up on the rock and ended up a little sideways. After backing down he tried it again. Bouncing a little over to the left in the front. He was a little further up on the hill and this time he came back hard and bounced on the right rear tire. His buggy rarred up like the the lone ranger and fell hard, landing upside down at the bottom of the hill. It is all fun and games till someone stops with all four tires in the air. It took us a while to get it turned back over, so we chose to pull spark plugs just to be on the safe side. Soon we had it fired up without any major issues.
Afterwards we drove back to camp and cooked hotdogs and smores on the campfire, like a bunch of girlscouts, under a very full moon. Thus ending the first day at BFE.
Afterwards we drove back to camp and cooked hotdogs and smores on the campfire, like a bunch of girlscouts, under a very full moon. Thus ending the first day at BFE.
