Monday, August 25, 2008

The Blue Beast's first outing

We took the Blue Beast up American Fork canyon on Saturday to see how it does offroad. Our friends Joe and Jeri took their Samurai and we went up to Forest lake, it was a beautiful ride.

I was a bit scared to tow the beast on this trailer, seeing as how it does not fit! But there was no telling Jon any different. It was quite the show watching Jon drive the beast onto the trailer without any ramps, it lifted our truck off of the ground.

We got up the canyon just fine, but then the beast wouldn't start, so here are the boys after they pushed the beast off the trailer and messed with it for 20 minutes. The problem was simple, way to simple. You see this switch, it was turned off. That is the fuel tank switch, so we weren't getting any gas.

We invited our neighbor Ed to go because he loves the Beast.

We had one more problem along the way. When we locked in the Hubs for 4-wheel drive Jon could no longer steer. So we did the whole trail in 2 wheel drive and it did great.

Here is Joe showing off in his little Sammy!


Jon was so happy we made it!

This deer was just walking around us like it was no big deal that it is hunting season.

Here is the destination, this beautiful, peaceful lake.

2 comments:

Tina said...

What a fun thing for your family to do!

Dominique said...

Looks like fun! I would get too scared and close my eyes! I really like the pic of the lake--soo pretty.