TSF Weekend

[Houm_WA]

This past Saturday me and a few friends (including "Ryan-in-Oregon" from this board) hit the Tillamook State Forest in Oregon. Really great place for off-roading. It's been raining a ton here in the pacific northwest this past few weeks and that made the trails very challenging.

YouTube- erek's 4x4 day 110.AVI

This was my second run up Hog's Back at the TSF. My first run was much cleaner but this one makes for better video! On this run I took a more agressive line and got bounced off of a rock face and onto my driver's side (rock) slider. This video winds up being a raving endorsement for Rover Specialties Sliders! Not only did they protect the LR3 but I could not find so much as a scratch on them!

Ryan, as I get more video (my Dad took all the vids and may take a while to upload them all) I'll get them to you. Thanks again for meeting up with the rest of us...it was fun!

 

[Houm_WA]

Here's Ryan going up the same hill. He took the right line...

http://www.youtube.com/user/sbarhoum1#p/u/4/MhG7Y2-uhpM

 

[Trynian]

looks like fun. Thanks for sharing.

 

[duckdive]

Looks like a fun trail.

 

[Houm_WA]

It is really fun...and there are about 25 different trails for 4x4s, of varying degrees of difficulty. The rest are for quads and bikes. Mud on the trail made it tough to put tires right where you wanted them.

 

[dantheman1]

In the words of a certain Clarkson, POOWWWEERR.

 

[Disco Mike]

This past Saturday me and a few friends (including "Ryan-in-Oregon" from this board) hit the Tillamook State Forest in Oregon. Really great place for off-roading. It's been raining a ton here in the pacific northwest this past few weeks and that made the trails very challenging.

YouTube- erek's 4x4 day 110.AVI

This was my second run up Hog's Back at the TSF. My first run was much cleaner but this one makes for better video! On this run I took a more agressive line and got bounced off of a rock face and onto my driver's side (rock) slider. This video winds up being a raving endorsement for Rover Specialties Sliders! Not only did they protect the LR3 but I could not find so much as a scratch on them!

Ryan, as I get more video (my Dad took all the vids and may take a while to upload them all) I'll get them to you. Thanks again for meeting up with the rest of us...it was fun!

Nice wet trail. Do your self a favor and don't be so aggressive on the trail when it is not needed or you will land up paying some BIG un-want repairs. You can't just go thru a very simple line on a trail and go bouncing thru every low spot and rock without causing some accumulative damage. If you ran it a little hard cause you don't have a good set of tires, it will be cheaper for you to buy some good tires, let your truck perform better and spare your self some unnecessary expenses.
That being said, looks like you guys had a fun day.

 

[Houm_WA]

Mike, I am counting this run as a "driving mistake" actually....so you're right. I tend to go pretty fast on hill climbs because I don't want to lose momentum and have to go back down. ...in this case I could've went much slower, but that's only clear in retrospect. Regardless, all I can do is learn from it and move on. Glad I had the armor to protect the rig from any immediate damage.

 

[Mr.BigsLR3]

I like the reckless abandon approach. That was fun to watch. ****.

 

[JackMac]

Putting those new sliders to good use!