Nate's 2002 TJ, Not so simple anymore by gst95dsm

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Wheeled Swamp Lake Trail today in the Sierra's. GREAT day of wheeling! The trail is over 10 miles of technical rock crawling. Considered to be a challenging trail by many and definitely one that would be good for camping. I've done it several times in one day, and today we covered it in 7 hours moving pretty good with two fairly capable rigs.  

This was my first time on it since many mods ago, so I was excited to try some new lines that I may have shy'ed away from in the past. This trail is a belly scraper, I don't care how much clearance you have, so there was plenty of scraping on this and that, but no breakage. My buddy drives a well set up 4 runner with gobs of clearance in every direction and although he doesn't scrape nearly as much as me, even he got his fair share today. FUN!  

I've got some vids uploading to youtube i'll share later. I did upload one already though. My buddy in his 4 runner walked this line with ease while I had a little excitement. I knew the tire was in the air but I also knew it would settle if I could get just a little more forward movement so I kept in it and made the line. This one was purely a function of wheelbase! I think I had more fun though.

Here's a few pics my son snapped that I thought turned out good! He's 12 and endures these long wheeling days with no complaints. Good father son time today since he's getting ready to start Junior high, we had some good talks.

The beginning of the day / still clean! DUSTY today!



Sick 4runner



Coming up "rooster" rock.... nice climb. Picture does NO justice!



Little tire lift, cliff to the left... no big deal.



This thing goes places.....



Thanks for looking!