T4WD Annual RunOak Ridge Estates - Sep 21-24, 2006

This was probably the most rushed trip that I have ever had! I didn't have Thursday off and had to work overtime or go to school a majority of the evenings that week, so I actually packed up the weekend before. I was able to speed my way to Oak Ridge and arrived at about 21:30. My friends were nice enough to save me a place and lend me a light, so I got set up pretty quickly. That first night was in the low 40's and facilitated my head cold to worsen.

I wasn't really in the mood to do anything crazy this weekend, so I took a lot of bypasses and only did a few good obstacles. I rode with group five tailed by my friend Jay. The rest of the group was from 7 Hills Jeep Club, a very friendly group of people. They were sensible and had some really nice rigs.

Somewhere along the way I noticed a noise in the front end. It sounded like a playing card in the spokes of a bicycle wheel. Turns out (thank you Paul) that it was a U-joint going bad; nothing that kept me from traveling home.

I am writing this several weeks after the trip and I have yet to get the Jeep cleaned or repaired. I've been so busy with work and school that I cannot find the time to do it.

And the picture above is the only picture of my Jeep from the entire trip. Being sick, I didn't take any pictures either, so it's my only picture memory of the whole weekend.