So this past Monday (a week ago today), Shad, Mark, Jason, and myself took the morning off for a four-wheeling trip up into the mountains west of Fort Collins.
We went up this old forest road just a little east of Crystal Mountain, which led us to an old quarry.
I think it might have been for getting some sort of mineral, cause all the rocks were speckled with chunks of what looked somewhat like silver. Anyways, we had a blast there trying out all of the vehicles to see what they could do (Mark had his Toyota pickup, Shad his Land Cruiser, and Jason his Uni-Mog). All of the vehicles did far more than I thought they could, but the best was easily the Mog. It was amazing to watch Jason take it over just about anything and everything there. The only limiting factor of the Mog was how top heavy it was.
Well, like I was saying, the Mog seemed capable of anything. It turned giant boulders into little pebbles, and eight foot cliffs I could hardly climb myself into gentle slopes.
That is until Jason tried driving up one that was just a little bit too tall. When he realized he wasn't going to make it, he let his Mog roll back down the hill. The problem was, he was in a sort of valley, and had been going up one side. As he went down, his left rear wheel rolled up on the far side of the valley, leaving the right rear wheel totally suspended. Those who have had simple physics courses can guess what happened next. Suffice to say, Mark and Shad and I will go to our graves with a picture of Jason clinging to his steering wheel as his Mog slowly rolled onto it's side around him.
It was a good thing everyone had brought their tow straps. Between the two other vehicles, we were able to right Jason's fairly easily. However, the incident has left it's scars on the Mog.
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