Scouting trip to NW Arkansas on Turkey day weekend 2010.

100 Meter Rd. This road earned its name because almost every 100 meters, there was some fallen tree or sapling growing in the trail, or an obstacle to negotiate.



The first tricky obstacle we encountered was a muddy off camber hill climb. The group leader, 6string got dangerously close to flopping over. We had to attach a winch line from a truck behind him through a snatch block to his rock sliders. This upward pressure kept him from flopping over as he re-adjusted his line with wheel turn and his winch pulling him forward.





Once we figured the line out it was relatively easy for the sure footed 4Runner.



Lots of this...





Then we got to the rockslide...





Quite a bit of physics going on in this photo. Airbag inflated to push truck up and away from the tree it was stuck on. Hi-Lift employed to articulate rear axle to facilitate a lateral slide. Winch from another truck run through a snatch block and attached to passenger side rear of the 4Runner to pull it back up the slippery slope away from the tree. It worked flawlessly.




It took us over three hours to get past this 100 meter section of the road. Lots of stacking and removing rocks (many moved by hand, others by winch and rigging), 1 broken winch, bridge building, and general shananigans.