Day 3 - Grizzly Lake.
This trail is weird. The gatekeeper ledge is massive, no one in our group cleared it. The only line for our vehicles (3rd gens, an FJ and a 2nd gen taco) high-centered everyone. There really isn't another line to take unless you're in something else (a JKU on 40s behind us took a different line and got up the ledge after a couple tries). Everyone in our group winched over it, and scraped the shit out of the underside of the trucks. That took like 2.5 hours. The trail is short after that lede, with some sketchy shelf roads with big chunky rocks (similar to Iron Chest or bowling ball hill on Wheeler Lake). The lake at the top is beautiful though. I wouldn't bother winching everyone over again, but I'm glad we ran it once.
Heading out from the campsite.
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Photos never do obstacles justice.
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When you're so high-centered you have to call for re-enforcements. He winched up off a Jeep that was ahead of us after this didn't work haha.
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Kyle winched up, then turned around on a little loop about a hundred yards up the trail so he could pull everyone else up the ledge. This was just before he turned around.
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FJ was definitely the closest to clearing the ledge, but he had to winch too.
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Alex was REALLY high-centered on his t-case/crossmember. Nate used the high-lift to get him off a bit so we could stack rocks better and get him over the ledge.
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Kyle keeping it light (bro) during all the winching.
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Justin putting his fancy winch to work.
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My turn to get winched. So much scraping.
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When you try and sneak some candid shots in.
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Group shot. Definitely not all of the trucks, and you can't see the second row. Maybe we will do better on this part next year. It was time for beers...
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Sun on the clouds just before the raffle started, and the last photo I took.
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