We all just need to keep our rigs running and keep the major breakages to a minimum. @Hank actually had a spare shaft and a spare CV this trip. Get your rig running and let's wheel. I think what might work better for our group is a weekend set aside monthly. This way we all know on the x weekend of every month we are doing something.
Kyle and I had no clue what we where actually doing till that morning. I looked in the book and found Swansea-Cerro Gordo linkup. Neither of us knows DV very well so we just went for it. We both knew that the snow was going to be an issue and it was. We still had a blast. We found enough stuff to keep us occupied for 6 hours of wheeling.
The PBR's cleared the snow no problem. Kyle was in front for the hole snow section so he got trail breaking duty. The snow was about as bad as snow gets. It was totally fluffy shit that never packed no matter how fast or slow you went. Think of trying to drive uphill in 2 feet of granular sugar. The high point of the trail is 9200' and we turned around at 8600'. If we had another day we probably would have kept going and possibly even made it through. lol
I'm still planning on running the easiest rock crawling trip ever in mid March. At least compared to what you guys have been doing. It's a revenge trip and if I don't conquer it, it's going to continually be a mental block for me.