HeavyMetal

SiSOffRoad goes to Rausch Creek and Centralia, PA.

This is the trip video all edited up.
Hi-res ~333mb .wmv - 15:15 long
http://heavymetal.arlojeep.com/SiSRa...ptFinal-Hi.wmv

Lo-res ~55mb .wmv - 15:15 long
http://heavymetal.arlojeep.com/SiSRa...ptFinal-Lo.wmv


We head out around 5 from my house, Dan behind me


The disaster strikes, smoke everywhere, dan is flashing his lights at me, so we pull off on the side of the highway



We open the hood, and theres a 2" wide hole in his engine block. so we call a truck to tow him to the campground, so in the meantime we play Smash Brothers on the side of i80 with trucks flying by at 70mph 3 feet away




We finally make it to camp and play with the Nylints


Next mornin we enter the park, not 5 mins in Hawk bends his tie rod pretty badly, we stop to repair



As we're working, some army CH-47 was flyin exercises around the area,


We get it fixed, and head into the competition course area, where we spent all of day 1








over on Mammoth rock

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then i was wheeling alone over in another section and got myself all fawked up



Hawk's camera ended up getting crushed by phils crossmember in the comp course, yes, its on video. haha

back to the campground we go


Hawk's camera.


Fred arrives on the scene and starts work on his axle, puttin the lockrite in


our site area


some creative camera exposure and a colored LED


Spread that RTV....


Fred spends all night workin on the Jeep, and the next morning we head back to the comp course to start the day



Steve tries a sick rock section



And then it begins...Fred's d35 carnage at CV trail


they get to fixin


hit it with some speed


I'm writing more in the next post, this ones gettin too long--------------------------------------------

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So after 3 hours and 6 minutes of d35 wrenching on the trail, we're on our way again

The goods




I do some of CV trail




We rush out of the park as it seems as though its about to pour rain like hell, and we hit up the gas station for the essentials



obligatory sticker shot


So we get back to the campsite after Dan and Sam had gone off to Harry's U-Pull it over in Hazleton...they got a Mint 4.0 out of a ZJ for 110 bucks, and are ready to begin the swap.


But before we start that, we are heading off to Centralia, PA...the abandoned town with the underground mine fires.
We arrive at old Rt. 61, since closed off and abandoned to the elements




yeah yeah standard heavymetal scenic shots in Centralia's backcountry




We enter the road into the area



centralia, safest place ever.

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We get back down to centralia's streets, where we try to find some wreckage/smoldering ruin....we come across the houses ive heard so much about


More of Centralia's scenic backcountry


It is dark and we are wandering around an abandoned town with no idea where anything is, so we decide to pack up and head out back onto old Rt 61 and the main road, got a few more pics



everyone on old 61



Final post coming up next....

HeavyMetal

We get back to the campsite and get down to business with the 4.0 swap, and get the old one out and the new one lowered in with our winch-pully-tree-tow strap-engine hoist...

the next day we head back into Rausch to tackle some harder stuff.

We head into the woods, and a little while in, Fred's procomp blows its sidewall, and not 20 mins after, blows another d35 shaft, so he says for us to head off into the park and he'd take care of the damage and call us up when he was done


we dive into Rock Creek








Steve and Erik take off to go home, and we head down the trail


Which is dusty as bloody hell i might add




Sam gets into a couple reds/blacks towards the back of the park




Then his near roll, if it weren't for trees





we eventually get him out of it and its about time to leave the park..theyre closing up soon

back to 0 visibility for me

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We meet up with Fred again after he finished up, D35 take 2


We are headin out of the park


Sitting in the staging grounds relaxing after another long day


while evryone else is gettin themselves situated, i run off to take some final scenics



We go to the campground, load up... gas station, air up, and head for the nearest friendlys



And thats all she wrote......here are some panos ill throw in just cuz i have em

ktmracer419

Kyle

nice pics as always heavy, good work.

-Kyle

vbxjeeper

Looks like you guys had a good time. :smiley face with cheers:

TheFinalFrontier

It's not a wheeling trip without breaking something! (Or in this case almost everything.) Looks like a good trip.

AbadK5Blaz

Looked like a great time.

mudman

Very nice pics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

jonb8

Sweet.....................

AbadK5Blaz

Man I cant wait to get out wheelin again. Nice pics!!!

Miss Amy

wow that looks like alot of fun. I really like the pic second from the very top