JEEPTALK.net: Tellico, NC 10/7/2006 - JEEPTALK.net

Marcus, it was my pleasure having you come with me, Im glad you were able to go. As Ruben would say we "took it to the limit".

Jim, my baby got us home in better shape then the drive up!

1. Miles broke his rear axle on slickrock. Bill and the rest of us helped in the repair.

2. My baby's engine would not start on schoolbus right before the extracredit area. 2hours later it restarted after in unplugged and replugged every electical connection in the engine bay! weird

3. Tim will be known from now on as the "tellico logger". He winched down a huge tree on upper 2. and its on video! he was very lucky it didnt land on him!

4. I think i accomplished something that has never been done, Did upper2 with my mililtary trailer, but it cost me a rear axle towards the very end of the trail. Luckily I was going home right after that trail and had all my tools spares oil etc... Between Myself, Tim, and Marcus, we were able to fix it on a steep incline at night in about 3 hours... And at about 12 midnight when we were at visual distance from exiting upper2, Tim looses his bead on front passenger. Bill was worried at the camp and decided to roam and we heard him via cb, he quickly arrived and help us out with Tims tire! When we got to trail 1, i topped off my rear diff, and taped up my trailer lights and headed home! what a day!!!!!!! Thanks again to Tim and marcus for all the hard work on upper 2!

Steven Speilberg has nothing on you Marcus!

here is the link to Marcus' and my photos 225 so make sure you have time to see them all sorry

Kodak Slidshow

Great Pics of upper 2. What a fun time Ill try to get a few videos up tonight

It looks like you guys had an excellent time this year... I wish I could have been there..

Maybe next time!!!

OK here are just a few videos

Miles busts an axle
Tim does some logging
Alberto Looses tail light

Tim, those clips are great!


ps i already went to walmart and got a new smaller set of trailer lights

great clips......

Hey Tim, i'll trade you a copy of my dvd for your's at the next towershops

does anybody have a dvd burner so we can pass them out it takes me an hour on my dvd recorder to copy 1

Very nice clips Tomb. You were really fortunate with that tree. I'll bet experience will determine what tree all you guys that were there pick to winch on in the future.

Hey green, I really like some of your trailer shots and it looks neat the way you took it on the trail even though you paid the price with the damage and D35. Hey, you had fun and we have fun looking and that is what counts.

Btw guys, these Kodak albums are horrible, is there not another free service you guys can find to put these up, or is that pretty much it ?

Angler, edit the video and take the boring stuff out and I can make some copies for you when one of the computers are not being used.

Jim B, on Oct 12 2006, 07:03 AM, said:

Jim, Yea we looked to make sure the tree was alive the rest of the night. It appeared that tree had been winched to many times because the bark was warn off at the base so we didnt second guess it. But we will from now on. I dont know how it defied physics like that either

Jim B, on Oct 12 2006, 07:03 AM, said:

Whats so bad about the Kodak Album? I like it. You can up load all you photos at the same time and dont have to resize them. As far as I know there is no limit to the number or size of the photos uploaded. Which makes it really easy when you have over a hundered or two hundered. It sorts them into albums by date. Then I use that and can email it to all my friends and family and they can view them easily. I know you cant link to the pics but I just then pick out the few that are worth linking and then upload them to Imageshack. Kodak is much more user friendly than any of the other sites Ive used out there, otherwise I would still be uploading pictures. Just my opinion

TombRaiderTim, on Oct 12 2006, 07:33 AM, said:

I guess that answers the question that out of all the free sites out there Kodak seem to be the best... that is unless someone knows of something else. Too bad you can link to them, but as you say Image Shack is there, too bad Image Shack does not have an album type upload because they seem to be the best for free linking.

Wait I think they do, did not Lt Dan use it once. We might need to move this discussion somewhere else if it continues.

I thought the Kodak album was fine, I just put it on sideshow and watched them all fairly quickly. Alberto, I cant believe you decided to drag that trailer over that obstacle in Upper 2. Tim, was that you I heard holler "Oh S@#T as the tree fell???? hehe. john

Marcus, excellent job on all the pics. Can't wait to see the videos. Alberto, man, I know Doug and I are now sorry we left in the afternoon Sunday after seeing the fun you had on upper 2. Bill gets a medal this trip for valor. Tim almost got the purple heart. Phew, close call. Marcus, next time don't duck! Keep the camera on the action! lol j/k. Glad you all made it out safe and in one piece. A few of the trees at slick rock looked like they were accidents waiting to happen too.

John, on Oct 12 2006, 09:01 AM, said:

Not me it was Mr Spielberg :sneak:

Thanks David, I wish I had the cam on my tripod, I thought that tree was cumming right at Tim. But the shadow looks cool and I got the tree bounce for the finale

Jim I already did the final editing I'll bring a copy to the next towershops

John sorry about the language but it seemed appropriate at the time

Angler, on Oct 12 2006, 09:44 PM, said:

He was just being a good director and telling us what we should be doing

Personally, I thought it was just one of those "Moments" or MOVEMENTS. Dependent upon your location relative to the falling tree. haha. jdn

The MOUNTAIN MAN, on top of Whiggs Meadow.

sky6, on Oct 3 2006, 04:14 PM, said:

Campsite TELLICO RIVER #7 has been renamed: HOOPER, but it is still FREE!

This is NOT progress! It was a beautiful sight, many moons ago......I first stayed there in 1986.

Mountain Man, on Oct 18 2006, 01:25 PM, said:

I have a feeling that it is only free until they get the latrine set up.

sky6, on Oct 18 2006, 05:25 PM, said:

Speaking of latrine. Joe i must confess on this great forum, that i used the female bathroom when available! I think marcus had a massive code brown in the mens latrine, and i couldnt even open the door!

Greeny that is just wrong. Throwing Marcus under the bus like that.