Lary Fox getting killed in a rolover down chicken **** at rimrock.  That's the only one that isnt funny now.

But ones that ARE funny now I could write a entire book on.

Here's one from a trail I wish was still open.

I believe it was 2000 On a dark and very very very rainy night in early November.  A friend of mine who dosnt wheel but always liked riding with me said he wanted to go wheeling.  It was a weeknight and nobody else could go so I decided we'd take a little spin up highriders, wich could be done fairly quickly by yourself.  I dont know how many of you know the trail but it started with a 3-4' rock face that usualy had a little watter going down it, well this night it was a 2' deep watterfall.   In those days my  truck was nothing real special, a 84 xtra cab with 4" trail bastard lift, 5.29's f/r lockrights, 35" TXR's and a ramsey 9000# winch.  Oh and a heluva lotta custom bodywork by various trees   I had always been able to make it up the rock face, even when my truck had open difs, so I charged right up it and away we went up the trail.  We were going along fine and had made it thru the first 2 watter holes on top when I heard somthing rubbing the tire.  I got out to look and one of my ad a leafs was cocked sideways.  I grabed my hammer to smack it back in to place but when I hit it...   only half of it moved.  Oh well I thought and smacked the other half back in place and continued on.  A minute later I heard both halved hit the ground, crap.  I tried to tighten the u bolts but nothing doing.   So I kep going.  We were almost at the end of the trail so oh well.  

This is when they had first  tryed to close highryders and had placed a few ecology blocks around the gate bypass  and a few at the end of the trail, well driving around the block at the end of the trail the enevitable hapned and my center pin broke.  I stopped and chained the axle in place and continued up the road to the gate.  When I got to the gate I saw there new ecology block atempt and realized I wasnt going over it.  I didnt know the nifty lock breaking trick then (and I'm not sharing now:flipoff: )  so I tryed to winch the lock off the gate, prying at the lock everything.  Nothing worked.  I decided that rather than screw with the gate all night I would head her back down the trail.

On the way back to the trail I had to re chain the axle 4 times and that was on a gravel road.  When I got to the trail it was worse.  I fixed it 3 times almost imidiatly after geting back on the trail and while going down a little hill, wich was then a raging river due to the rain, I looked back to see how my axle was doing.    It was under the rear bumper on the drivers side   I got out to asess the damage and saw,  my axle was waaaay out of wack, and my rear driveline had came apart.  I got the axle back in place with a mixture of hi-lift and winch.  I then sat and tapped all my leaves back in line and found a bolt that fit thru the hole in the springs and jimmied everything back togeather.  I couldnt tighten the u bolts down anymore so I found a plastic pepsi bottle and cut the ends off and wedged it under the u bolts and on top of the new center pin/bolt.  Then I wraped the whole thing with a cinch strap to hold it all togeather.  Next I re chained the axle from moving forward backward and from moving downward.  Then I put the driveline back togeather wich I realy needed scuba gear for.  After she was all buttoned up I drove the rest of the way off the trail and all the way home with no more problems

And I never did buy a new ad a leaf.  I would just weld it back togeather every time it broke:clappy: