Looks like a great day fellas! Nice to hear air quality is better.  I will be at Blue Lake  Mon-Thur.   Plan I doing a different trail each day.   Looking at some trails to Red Lake, Silver Lake, and tragedy springs area.

Did you guys go all the way thru and back? 


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Thanks, think I am gonna buy the ring and see how it goes.

... I wish I had forced myself to take the harder line on the spot that screaming bear took. I think I would've made it fine, just got hung up on that rock at the beginning and was too cautious.

Yeah that's what Jim said. "Shoulda woulda coulda, next time". You have to try hard to find challenges on Dear Valley. I avoided a few that I used to do because rocks had moved and I didn't want body damage. Maybe next time 

Here are the other pics I took. the first three are pictures of the smoke from the Donnell fire on the other side of the next ridge.








The secret lunch spot.





The waterfall.

It was super awesome. I was amazed at how well my rig did since this was the first trip I've made without breaking down enroute. Im looking to do slick rock soon. I wish I had forced myself to take the harder line on the spot that screaming bear took. I think I would've made it fine, just got hung up on that rock at the beginning and was too cautious.

The trail was tough, but fun. It would have more fun if I hadn't broken something.

We only did Deer Valley. It really is an all day trail.

I saw one horse fly, and he was just interested in my windshield stops on my hood for some reason. No mosquitoes that I saw. And the smoke wasn't bad.

How was the trail? 
Did you do just Deer or Slickrock too?
Were the bugs bad?

Glad they are taking care of it.

That was one very special package that day I took that pic!

Good meeting you all and thanks for the welcome


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Here's a couple of better pics of the spring.





The good news is that I'm actually going to get it warrantied. After getting the run a round a couple of times, I persisted. The second guy said I had to have the receipt. I did save the receipt, but that crappy printer ink they used back then was fading pretty bad, and I couldn't scan it. I could read the invoice number, so I called up 4wp and they emailed me a digital version of the receipt. It wasn't 10 minutes that went by after sending my email, I got a call from a guy named Joe. Not only is he going to send me two leaf springs, but a bushing kit too. And all I have to do is take the old springs back to 4wp, so they can send them to him. And I should have them by Wednesday of next week, shipped to my house.