you must be quite the driver........ did you take the alder trails?

 

Let me put it this way, if you don't mind dents and maybe destroying some stuff, then yes 31's are ok at Elbe. But his ZJ wouldn't last

 

HAHA....I'm wondering, if he was able to do everything else at Elbe Hills easily on 31s, why he let a little old tree across the trail keep him out of the Busy Wild. Although had he gone on to do the Busy this time of year, a tree across the trail would have been the least of his worries. This is a pic of my Jeep going through one of the more shallow water crossings on the Busy during the summer months.....last summer. This is the one Tyrone almost Hydrolocked his Jeep in...The mudhole just before this one ended Tims day and we all know what a tank his Jeep is.Long story short is NOBODY is making it through the Busy on 31s unless you're being dragged by something locked at both ends on bigger tires. I'm locked, geared and on 33s and I broke my Jeep on the Ranier Vista Trail. You guys all know the hill climb I'm talking about. All Real Jeeps try the right hand side first....

 

looks like Ill be mall crawling till I get some 33's and trimming

 

Ever need any help lemme know lol

 

First time i ran elbe i was on 31s ran all trails cept the busy...not a dent...well there was one but that was because i opened my door too far too fast and hit a small stump...i swear it was there..

Anyway there are a few trails there that are ment for 31-33 inch tires open/open. i believe they are
sunrise, mainline and ext, and i think gotcha(it might be in the next catagory)
then its 33-35s 1 or 2 locker, winch and or tow points recovery gear...
alder, swap, gottcha,
then its 35+ dual lockers, recovery points, winch and a buddy!
ranier and busy
honestly rainier can be ran and has been ran on 31s. i say it should be in the middle group. The hard part(s) is the hill at the beggining and i think there were 1 or 2 spots at/near the end of the trail. Rest of it was cake.

 

yes i ran every trail up there besides the busy because there was a tree fallen over the entrance and i wasent a small tree if yall dont believe me i go up with any of u guys anytime i came out with no dents besides my rockers because i was going out of my way to crawl over bigger rocks than my jeep could clear and the busy wild is alot different now than a year ago they did alot of logging and changed up the trail im down to go w.e yall want to and ill have my 31 mts on the jeep

 

yepp there was a huge tree fallen over the entrance over the busy so we went to rainer vista and i really didnt have a problem with my 31's never got stuck there are some hard lookin spots but room to go around i wasent sure about it at first cuz the sight says 36's or bigger full body armor front and rear lockers wench and tow points but i always like challenges it was fun and deff doable with 31 as i proved to my buddies

 

Eric,

I remember that Elbe run where you ran everything on your stock size slick tires but, that was in the dryest part of the summer, too. This other guy claims he ran all the trails on 31s just a couple of weeks ago and that makes it right in the middle of winter. I have a very hard time buying that without pictures to prove it.

 

That's all fine and good but in order to make a statement like "I ran the whole Busy Wild trail at Elbe Hills in the middle of winter on 31s" taking the by-passes around all the hard obstacles won't cut the mustard if you want to impress the PACNORWEST crowd on this forum. Last summer I made it through the entire Busy Wild trail without any damage or pulling my winch cable even once...However, I'm locked, geared and on 33s...AND I took most of the by-passes just so I could know for myself that I made it through the Busy at least once. That same trip 3 different XJs on 35s had a much worse day than me (they broke)....but, they were doing all of the hard obstacles.

 

I made it too ...I can make (almost) any thing any were on 33" tires....One way or another...Just saying....(I do carry allot of spare parts)...I just got my new chromolly axle shafts in and the caps for my yukon super joints just need to get it back together and im ready for the busy wild...And for that big tree I would have just winched over it it would not be the first time I have done that...

 

There are a bunch of big tire'd guys running the busy this Saturday. They're meeting at the campground at 9am.. You should show em how it's done

 

The guy I got my 31s from went through all the trails on the same set of 31 s that I got from him. It was his first time through the trails an he did em all. It wasn't a week later he found our when he went out with a group that that some trails required bigger tires

 

no wonder ive been told not to go on cherokee forum because of some of u guys.... yall just have to keep arguing about stuff and disagree about something where none of u were there to see, theres no point for me to argue with yall never had disrespect from fellow jeepers i came on here to meet and wheel with my jeep family but some of u guys are to stuck up to believe something that i said......o well have fun bein negative on other peoples threads ( popcancherokee ) heard good stories about ya man from some buddies that have gone out with you ill hopefully be there next time. yall have a good day.

 

I never said i ran the busy wild trail buddy thanks though