Super VXer
Pictures and vids will NEVER do this obtacle justice. I highly suggest to anybody who wants to attempt this to walk it first... You'll see exactly what I was thinking... It's totally disorientating and messes with your mind!!Originally Posted by Tone
Alas, it's doable. I've got just under 12 months to psych myself up for it...
-biju.
p.s. Tone, I still have pictures that Chris took - I'll get you them as soon as I can....
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Super VXer
isn't that obstacle the same one that the bronco took a plunge down when its brakes gave out?
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VXer in the Sky
Yup, and there are pictures at the office of other who have not made it and the remenants of a blue Toyota fatality can still be seen in the crevasse. Lisa wanted me to look at them BEFORE I made the ascent - I chose not to....
Super VXer
Certainly seems like something not to tackle if you're not experienced or afraid of heights.
Super VXer
There was not a fatality involved with the toy still in the crack. Some broken bones and it took a major effort from the search and rescue squad to get them out. I am sure I could find the photos of the extraction. The only fatality that I know of on Lionsback was a number of years ago a couple of kids from West Valley City took a plunge off the north end (also in a Toyota). They were trying to come down the backside. No one saw it happen but they ended up in the alley next to Lionsbask that I often use to come off of Hell’s Revenge. Some folks found them long after they had taken the plunge. People do the backside all the time but you wont get me to do it. Rick Russell has a video out called Moab Extreme that you can purchase on line from his web site where they do the backside. In fact it starts to snow while they are on top.
Todd
Nice website Todd, looks like a blast. Unless I misread it, I believe Tone was talking about the toyota being the fatality.
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Super VXer
I never heard a bigger wuss in my life. That guy should have jumped off at the top! At least he got out there and did the "obstacle" though. I don't think Lion's Back is that bad at all. I have seen a guy do Lion's Back in a stock Wrangler in reverse - YEAH! He revved up it faster than this guy broke a sweat. He didn't have to turn around at the top though he just put it in 1st and drove back down. I have even seen three 19 y.o. girls in a Defender 90 do it without a second thought. I didn't own a VX when I did it - I was in a nice CJ but then I rode up with my buddy in his nearly stock Cherokee without trouble.
I was there when that Toyota went into the crevasse - you could hear the passengers screams echoing out of it from where I was on Hell's Revenge. At the time, rumor had it the guy who was spotting the driver... was nicknamed "Stoopid". Would you let him spot you?
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Super VXer
1. With a good spotter to keep you on the line this would not be to tough.
2. Tone, your camera person needs a tripod!
3. Propper music selection is vital!
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Super VXer
...There was also that old video ('91 I think) of a full size Blazer/Suburban that lost its brakes on the way down. It went off the opposite side of the back as the Toyota -pretty nasty.
Everyone lived.
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