C.O.R.E. January 2006

 Snow Run At Jacks Pass

JAN SAT 14 CORE RUN                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

 We set out on sat the 14 knowing that Fri the 13 was behind us, Luck was in our favor. We were going to the snow not even knowing if their was any. We had 9 Rigs, 9 Members, 4 Candidates, 5 Guest,1 previous Member. One of our guest was from B.E.S.T., Driving a toy sitting on 36's. We set out for Jacks Pass, Thinking we would find snow there.  As we were driving, I got a call from one of our Candidates,  "He was Playing catch up" He was calling to get our 20, That’s the last we heard from him until we got a call over the CB informing us that he was stuck in the snow ahead of us. Were not sure how he got ahead of us. We found our snow and our candidate. After airing down and getting the Bronco2 back on the road we moved out. My jeep is sitting on 35's and I dropped the tire pressure to 5psi. It was working pretty good. If you don’t spend a lot of time in the snow, and you end up in it, Drop your tire pressure to 3-7psi. This will allow you to get on top of the snow. To much tire pressure you will dig your tires all the way to solid ground, and if your in 4' of snow, your stuck. Make sure someone in your group has air so you can air up for the ride home. The toy and the bronco2 were out in front pushing snow. I was back helping out where I could. The biggest rig we had was a ram PU. He was digging his tires in and, then he was digging with his Shovel. We dropped his pressure to 7psi and he was on top and moving out. We caught up to the other guys and the Bronco was stuck. The toy lost a inside bead on his beadlocks.  The word of the day was STUCK.. I backed down the road and hooked a strap on to our smallest rig, a Nissan sitting on pizza cutters. We kept the strap on and caught up to the others.  Everyone else caught up to us under their own power. We pressed on, slow going. The deep snow was wet getting on top was not happening. We were pushing snow. I heard over the CB that 4 rigs were all stuck and all tied to one another. When we got to solid ground we aired up and moved on. On our way out our candidate in the Bronco2 got himself in a tight situation and then smoke. He was dead in the water. Winches and snatch blocks were not helping. It was getting dark, and if we could not get it running it may be spending the night in the woods. The air box chafed some wires against the firewall and caused a short. We ripped the air box out dressed up the wiring and it started. He drove out under his own power. Agreeing that we had a good day we headed for home.