With the end of summer approaching I decided to put this Dusy trip together on short notice. John (Dirtdriver) confirmed so that was good, since this is a trail that you cant do alone.

I had my 89 SWB with 33's, Crawler Gears, Gen 2 SR rear end and Trailing Arms, Air Lockers front and rear, armor and winch.

John had his 90 LWB with 33's, Crawler Gears, 5.29's and ARB airlockers in both diffs Gen 2 Trailing arms, RB sliders and tube bumper.

Day 1

I got off to a late start on Wednesday, and John even later, but we met up at camp on Thursday Morning. Stories of bears rummaging through peoples campsites were being told by the other campers at Voyager Rock. I was glad I locked all my food up in the Montero that night.

First Campsite:



Courtright Resevoir:



The trail started off at Chicken rock, which is a steep climb up a granite dome, easy enough with low speed crawling but nothing too crazy. A couple hours ahead we met one of the Fresno 4Wheelers who maintain the trail as he was hiking the trail and he said the Toughest part was up a ways ahead.

Top of Chicken Rock:













After about 5 hours of slow speed crawling, we stopped as Johns truck started to heat up, when we lifted the hood we saw that the radiator had sprung a leak at the top front tank seal <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/scared.gif" alt="" /> Luckily I had packed a propane torch some solder and flux in my tool bag right before I left. We let it cool for an hour or so, drained some coolant, soldered up the tank, refilled and we were back on the trail.

Getting ready to solder radiator:


The repair put us behind and it was getting dark by the time we got to Thompson Hill which is the toughest part of the trail. Thompson Hill is long and steep with with powdery dirt with granite boulders strewn about. Both I and John were high centered at one point so it was time to break out the winch. I plug in the controller and hit the power out button. Nothing! Winch not working...WTF?? A couple jeepers lent us a hand here since they were already winching each other at this point they hooked us up and pulled us out. After a couple hours of super slow progress and stacking rocks, we made it to camp at about 9:30PM. Sorry No photos of this part of the trail as we were just trying to survive and make it through before dark so we could get to the campsite up at the top.