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rolled through the valley and along the creek bed, heading towards a rope bridge which
Stephen scouted out last time down here in the valley. The bridge at one time
allowed people to walk across the creek without getting their feet wet. What we
found was a pretty dilapidated span of only a few remaining ropes. It seen better
days. Instead of turning around to go back to the trail, which had been slightly
re-arranged by a family of beavers and their beaver dam, we decided to scout out a clear
route from the creeks flood plan up to what appeared to be a trail or at least a once was
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Whenever we're in these low areas around the creek bed we almost always find the soft
stuff. Once again as before a few good yanks with the tow strap would be required to
get through this soft, stagant muck.
  
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Above is Carl's newest Jeep acquisition. This completely stock 99 TJ did extremely
well and even though it has stock tires and open differentials which says something about
the Jeep TJ right out of the box. During this weekend Carl was able to get through
mud and climb hills that other stock 4x4's could not. Above-right is an example the
TJ's flexibility. Even though the sway bars are still connected the suspension was
not at it's maximum flexation. This later probably had a lot to do with his ability
to climb some of the hills that gave most stock 4x4's trouble including one that Carl taks
credit for being the first in our group to make it up with the stock vehicle.
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