Jeep Cherokee Rollover

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This was seen a week or two ago. Just another Jeep Cherokee 4x4 that fell on it's head while playing in the rocks. To this driver's credit, he was smart enough to make sure and get it out of the forest the same day he wrecked it. There isn't really much to tell here, but the truck just looks like it is about to cry itself. Maybe next time this guy would be better off parking his Jeep 4x4 Cherokee at the Broadmoor Hotel and letting the guys from Adventures OutWest do the Jeep driving. (grin)

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This was seen Tuesday afternoon at the bottom of Old Stage Road. Now all the neighbors agreed that it was a sign of trouble. Well...while it was a very built Jeep, it came back to the bus almost as clean as it left. There was no visible signs of mud play. The female passenger who didn't know mud play was not allowed admitted she encouraged the driver to leave the trail and play in the mud, but the driver told her no and explained that is what gets trail areas closed to motorized use. Well done!!! Thank you for being part of the solution and not part of the problem. It was noted that the Jeep did not have license plates on it, and it was explained that valid plates are required on Old Stage Road and Gold Camp Road, and either a plate or OHV sticker is required on the side roads.

My Jeep Has A 4 Inch Lift!!!

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So I settle in off to the side of the water crossing to watch. Two Jeeps are traveling together, the first one has tried to cross the water too fast, and has stalled her Jeep by getting water in her open intake. A USFS Volunteer has showed up and is explaining how you want to go just fast enough to keep positive exhaust pressure, but slow enough as to not force water up your air intake. The black Jeep sporting it's local military base permit winches the ladie's gold Jeep out, and the guy driving the black Jeep then proclaims "But I have a 4 inch lift". This comment is followed by one of the faster attempts at this crossing I have seen yet. Yep...you guessed it. The black Jeep quietly comes to rest in about the same spot the gold Jeep was just pulled from. Everyone seems to be good sports about spending the next several hours pulling spark plugs, cranking water out of cylinders, etc. It was a beautiful day... I went wheeling, but drove by a few times over the next several hours to find them still there "drying things out". MUST be a Jeep thing.

Ft. Carson Jeeper Makes Us All Proud

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This is something I had never planned having to ever blog about. This is a post of a GOOD THING. Yes, I know they are out there, but it is so rare to run across them and we get so tired of seeing the bad, it was a GREAT refresher to run across this. This military gentleman had picked up all this trash that morning and was jsut settling in to enjoy a beverage in his campsite as he waited for some friends to arrive. Thank You!!! Beverage deserved! The USFS ranger who gave these pictures to me and told me this guys story with such excitement, also said this guy said he usually ran with Colorado4x4 group, but this weekend was waiting for the Big Horn group. I guess the Big Horn club was coming up the next day to help the USFS do some trail maintenance on FSR 370C aka Eagle Rock Trail. Thank you all!

An old song goes, " Signs, signs, everywhere there's signs..."

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As an old song goes, " Signs, signs, everywhere there's signs..". Now, too bad no one reads them or follows their wisedom. When someone complains about why more and more travel management is required on public lands, think about what you see here. This Jeep driver decided to leave the marked trail and venture past the signs, markers, and flagged fence all indicating that the US Forest Service does NOT want or allow Jeeps and other motorized travel in their wetlands. I guess he missed all the clues here. This happened sometime Tuesday morning, June 19th, 2007. Now...before any of the self-propelled crowd such as hikers, mountain bikers, etc. get too self righteous here, we should take a good look at these photos. That is a mountain bike rack on top of this Jeep. This is someone who is part of the self-propelled crowd. As one of the signs this gentleman ignored reads, "Please respect the wetlands". The resource damage this driver did getting stuck was light. The resource damage he did getting it out was moderate.

Jeep End Over End Rollover

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Ouch!!! This appears to a case of too fast for conditions. The tracks look like the driver came around the corner too fast hit a high spot in the road, then stuck a tire in a washout on the low side of the road causing the Jeep to flip end over end, not roll sideways, landing upside down about 30 feet down the embankment. That had to hurt! This vehicle was recovered on a Friday afternoon, approximately 72 hours after the accident happened. The truck had been shot with a shotgun, stereo and winch stolen. I was surprised the front bumper and wheels and tires weren't gone as well.
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Must Be A Jeep Thing

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Dare I say...This MUST be a Jeep thing..cause I don't understand. Why would you four wheel where you aren't supposed to? This was taken during winter of 2006, "at the pond" on Gold Camp Road in the Pike National Forest. The US Forest Service rules do NOT specify seasonal conditions to stay out of the wetlands, it just says stay out period. This person then made the grave error of leaving it over night and letting it freeze in.