Monday we tried La Sal Pass again with a large group - we tried it last year but ran into deep snow. This year snow levels are way down, in fact Moab has only had 0.65" rain in 2012.
On the talus slope
Crossing the stream. This is as far as we got last year.
Credit to CeCe
Credit to CeCe
We did run into a snowbank higher up, but it looked doable so Jim Paget had a run at it in his Jeep with 37s
Time for the winch. The snowbank was very dense, I could walk on it. And it had a frozen core that high-centered the first few rigs to try it.
I had the next biggest rig, so my turn.
Credit to Eric
Almost but not quite. Time for the strap.
Credit to Eric
At the summit
Me and Joe
Gill and CeCe
On the way down the backside of the La Sals, I noticed my power steering pump was getting loud. Sure enough, the pressure hose that loops over the belts and down next to the radiator was leaking. I guess these things happen on a 17 year old truck. Wonder of wonders, the first auto parts store I stopped at in Moab had the hose. So, another night wrenching, during the revelry of Chocolate Monkey night at the Stoop. The upper fitting is easy to reach, but the lower one is designed by someone with small Japanese hands, which neither I or Joe are equipped with. And the pressure switch took 3 strapping men with a vise grip to break loose to swap into the new hose. Thus the second night of wrenching in Moab.
95 Trooper with a buncha stuff nobody here cares about...
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