JPFreek - Index

JPFreek - magazine - Index

A quick two days of work and then we
were off to Moab for about a week. I
started my wheeling days with a Land
Rover Discovery, then a Toyota Tacoma,
and now the Jeep Rubicon. We hit Alaska
with the Disco, and then Colorado with
the Tacoma and Jeep. My Colorado
wheeling led me to some of the nicest
people that could care less what you
wheel with. They proved that on every
trail and really pounded the idea home
when they invited me to tag along with
them to Moab. This was going to be a
TTORA (Toyota Territory Off Road
Association) trip for what they call a “Take
Over.” I was honored and accepted their
invitation.
Since so much of wheeling revolves
around the fellowship side of things, we
planned to spend two nights on the 113
mile White Rim Trail. The trailer was in
tow for this, and from there it was one
day on to Hell’s Revenge without it.
The trailer, being pulled by a Jeep
among Toyotas, raised more attention
than what I was comfortable with. I was,
after all, the invited guest among the
Toyota group. With that being said, I had
no problem carrying some of their gear
in the trailer or answering questions as
they came because The White Rim Trail is
a perfect trail for this kind of setup.
This is where things got interesting. If
you know of the White Rim Trail, you are
probably wondering how on earth
anything weird can happen there. In the
middle of nowhere, a puddle of water
and mud appeared right in the center of
the trail. Most were going around it since
it would be a real “sticky, throweverything-around”
kind of mud. I went
around the puddle on the left side. There
was maybe a 6-8” incline on the side of
the road that the Jeep and trailer were
going to ride on to go around the mud. In
the center of this small incline was a
boulder. When the left trailer tire hit this
boulder, it bounced the trailer over on its
side then into a tight roll to the right.