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Valhalla

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Hey all! Windrock Broncos will be hitting Windrock this Saturday (with friends of the Bronco as always). It looks to be a great day! partly Sunny and 80 in the valley! I'm packed!
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Few more items to toss in Friday morning, excited to finally get the Bronco out of FL for some new action, see you Saturday.

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I need to get up there some day.
Is there a Starbucks and mall on site?
Close! we heat water on the manifold and put Folgers instant with hot chocolate packs in it. Spell your name wrong and sped to much on it and you are set!!
 

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Few more items to toss in Friday morning, excited to finally get the Bronco out of FL for some new action, see you Saturday.

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I will see you at 8:15 in front of the store!
 
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Hate to miss this weekend! You guys have a blast and take plenty of pics! Looking forward to reading your write-up @Valhalla! Spare the axles!
 
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Hoping no axles needed, there will be two in the tow rig.
 
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We started out on trail 74, It is a moderate trail with just enough to see how @CitrusBronco would do. his Kelly 37's seemed up to the task. We hit the top and went to 4H and ran G67/66 to trail 89 It is a fun moderate trail that we enjoyed making our way to G50 and then up trail 60. Trail 60 is a great level 6 trail, and we had a lot of fun there. We went and found G53 a dead-end trail that leads to an old coal face. Once there we found a trail up to a highpoint with an amazing view. We tried our luck with an old county "road" that is long since defunct. I sank in mud that my 37's could not find enough purchase to get me out of. Citrus gave me a quick yank backward on to good ground and we skirted that hole. Unfortunately, the old road led to the top of a mine face, and we could not get to our destination from there. We back tracked looking for where we had lost our route. We never found the rest of the old roadbed. At this point we picked up 53, this trail would be an absolute blast for a non squatch badlands or similarly skidded 31"-33" tired vehicle. On 37's in my opinion the sheer number of softball to basketball sized rocks make for a jarring ride. It's not enough to be an obstacle but just enough to kill any kind of trave speed. Every time I use this trail, I tell myself to go around it. After this we picked up 61 which is a similar trail but not as rough. We broke for a quick bite to eat before we went back to it. Then we hit the top of G55, if you like deep crisscrossing ruts on an incline this is the trail for you! About halfway down we had the decision to make to add a trail and we went on the trail that stopped us. Trail 72 is a climb with a few level 7 obstacles, some with go arounds some without. We basically just ran out of clearance and ended up on skid plates pushing as deep as we could get before all tires just started spinning. It was time to winch. This is on a steep grade at a place the mountain weeps water in the trail making the clay a sticky mess. This is where the Mikey T's lose out to the swampers. With out heavy throttle spinning the lugs just wouldn't clean. I only got a few photos, mainly taken by Alan who was shotgun with Citrus. I will add then to this. Citrus was staying another day before heading back to the Florida sun.
There was one side note when Jason and I were about 15 miles from putting it in the barn, he had a wheel bearing give out on the Taco. It made for a long day. We dropped the Bronco at my house and went back with the truck and trailer to get his. Once at his house unloaded, I noticed it looked like just the caliper was holding on wheel on.

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Of course I loaded to many pictures at one time so they scrambled a little.
 

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Damn you loaded about every pic for the day. Haha.
This was a great trip, spent Saturday chasing Valhalla around the back side of Windrock and Sunday we were on our own but ended teaming up with @twendell44 who followed me down some trails Valhalla mapped for a previous run, then through 51.
More to come with my thread that will include my review of the tires and lift also.
A big thank you to Valhalla and his man J, what a team to guide you into an adventure.
 

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Damn you loaded about every pic for the day. Haha.
This was a great trip, spent Saturday chasing Valhalla around the back side of Windrock and Sunday we were on our own but ended teaming up with @twendell44 who followed me down some trails Valhalla mapped for a previous run, then through 51.
More to come with my thread that will include my review of the tires and lift also.
A big thank you to Valhalla and his man J, what a team to guide you into an adventure.


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Jim sent me some pics.
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