Ski Resort Snow Wheeln

[notajeep]

******** Just to clarify, this is a private one day event that is held on private property by permission of the propety owner, and is by invition only. Not a free for all open to the public.  Sorry if I was not clear about that earlier.********



Who hasn't been to a ski resort and thought, " I wonder what it would be like to drive my rig up here?"  Every year, after our local resort , Beaver Mountain, shuts down for skiing for the year, they invite a few rigs to come up and enjoy the slopes skier free.   I have to admit that I was a little worried.  Never having driven on a ski mountain before, I was unsure as to how things would go.  I figured that it would either be really cool, or really dumb, depending on how much traction there was to be had.

I was the first one there, but soon alot of big rigs started to show up.


See Nate Williams of Mt logan off road in the red LJ.




Soon it was time to hit the slopes. 
Traction was pretty good and we could climb the reasonably steep stuff as long as you stayed on the groomed part of the trail.



Here is Nate Williams waiting his turn for a run up the big hill.

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Al Wolford in the white JK and Jeff Sealy in the red YJ
(that YJ has a caddy 500 under the hood that could spin the 42" Iroks pretty good!! :greg:)



Al is only running 39"Iroks on his JK this trip. 
This is one of my favorite Jks of all time.  It is very clean, bug tires, currie rockjock 60s front and rear, and overall very nice.  And for weighing 7k this thing sure went where ever Al wanted to take it without any issues at all.



Here is Jeff putting that 500 to work.



Nate struggled a bit with his 38.5 KM2s until he dropped them down to 5 psi.  Then he had the run of the mountain.

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Notice the sweet custom Long arms and coilovers on his LJ.



Jeff getting in to the deeper stuff.



The buggys with my 42's at 4 psi in the front and 2 psi in the rear, was kinda like a big 4 wheeled snowmobile.  Mostly just a point and shoot affair.



My new Staun internal bead locks worked great at such a low air pressure.





It is hard to tell from these pics just how steep some of these runs were, but just think of your average ski slope.... :greg:



In not too long we were all at the top at the ski patrol station.

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Too bad there were no skiers to terrify coming off the lift.



By the time I got to the top, my little 4.3 was having a rough go of it.  All that extended high RPM driving that high up in the thin air had it gasping and weasing.  But it still made it, and when we made it back down, it was back to its old self.



Every one gatherd at the top of the mountain.







On the way back down to the parking area for lunch, we desided to  hit the winter sports park area.  I got to air out the buggy  pretty good on the tabletop.

Ill have some more pics and video when Jake gets me his stuff.


What a great day!  Doing something that I had always wanted to do, but never could admit to.  It was a blast.

More to follow.

[bigarms23]

nice looks like fun i wished they close the ski places here to do this

[jimbo74]

where are the snow hunnies pictures?

[46&2]

Nice! I wish the ski resorts around here would do that. I have always wanted to do that.

[notajeep]

It was a blast, other than all the snow hunnies were all covered up.

[88Rokyoat]

looks like a blast! Those are some nice jeeps too.

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I didn't get any pics of a pretty sweet runner that was there.  It was 39s fzj80 axles and walker evans beadlocks. It was pretty sweet, but didn't quite have the hp and wheel speed to make it all the way to the top.