After all that work and restoring done to Phil's '74 Bronco, it was time to take her out and give it a shot. While we were at it, we figured it was time to also break in our newest addition to our family, Ryan. He was born on July 7th and there's no sense in him waiting for the inevitable in this family,,,,,, get him out on a trail early,,,,,, hey, he gave us his first smile that day too! The things to come !!!!!! It was my first time out at Blue mountain and I was looking forward to it,,heard lot's about it. Phil had been before so he figured that the power line trail would be a good de-cherrying for his rig. The trail was a few Kms long (didn't actually check) and offered some good challenges. It could also be a good learning run for a fairly stock vehicle being that there were a lot of ways around the couple of harder sections. Our first real test was a v-sluice with some mild, sandy soil at it's base (just enough to screw you up). Both of us had to take a few runs to get up and over this one and throttle ended up being the answer (when all else fails, give her....). Our next obstacle ended up being a 30' steep down hill grade with some ledges and drops, not huge ones but still attention getters, the clinometer hit 40 deg. coming down at one point. Phil's rig started to get vapor locked at this point and he was having some problems keeping her running, he decided to take the by-pass, have lunch and let her cool down. Better to work out the bugs close to home than in the backcountry.

near the start of the Power Line trail

@ the v-sluice area

Phil's Bronco was at home

After about 40 min. or so we cruised along to a 50' section with two main ledges to climb, the larger one being about ~ 2.5' high. I gave her a couple of tries and with the angle toy showing a 46 deg. angle and a tire hanging in the air, and the sun in my eyes and the mild earthquake and the sunstroke from the 40 deg.C heat and the newborn crying.......Ok, Ok he never cried,,,,,, I just wimped....next time.

Coming down the hill (pictures never do justice)

Near the end of the trail

More throttle next time Andrew

All in all we had a great day and we weren't disappointed,,,,,,BUT read on-----

We tried to get a key for the gate at the rec. center,, but were told that they weren't handing them out anymore ?? The receptionist gave us a phone number to call to state our opinion: The man to talk to is Mike Murray @ 467-7337 (the key guy). Phone him and bitch!!!! Apparently the lock is going to be changed and there will no longer be any access via this route.-------I believe there's a write up in the 4WDABC site on the way....

http://www.off-road.com/~backrder/

 

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