Made it out on my last trip of the year last weekend. We made the 2.5 drive from the glass city to Southington Offroad Park in northeast ohio. This might be the farthest I've driven for a wheeling trip. And I'm not sure I'd want to go any farther for a day trip.   Haha  Anyway, 6 jeeps and I left out of Toledo at the ass crack of dawn Sunday. Three guys trailer their rigs and 4 of drove. When we got to the park, we met up with a few people from the Bantam Jeep Club from PA. This brought our group up to 9 (5 Jks, 1 YJ, 1 ZJ, 1 LJ and a ranger) After checking in and getting our safety talk, we headed out on the trails.

 

We started off on "backwoods". It wasn't overly technical, but was rutted all to hell. This made it a little more challenging for the ranger.




 




 




Stopped and played on some rocks. With IFS, open differentials and not a ton of ground clearance, I usually shy away from rocks. But I was feeling adventurous haha Later on in the day, the rocks weren't optional. 

 




 




Rock Crawling..ish   The ranger did not attempt  haha

 




 




Stopped for a group photo. (We chose this spot because the JK in the above photo broke a half shaft on this obstacle. This is where he parked when he came down)

 

 


 

After this the group from PA headed home. The guy with the broken half shaft and one of the other JKs also called it a day. After seeing them on their way, the remaining rigs headed over to the other side of the property to play some more.

 




 




 

Took another group photo

 




 




 




 

Perched the truck up here for a photo op

 




 




 

At this point we had an hr and half or so left befor the park closed, so we headed ack to the main part of the property to run a trail called "wall crawl".

 




Looking down the trail from the start of wall crawl

 




 




 




 




 










An here is where things went south  lol  I knew this obstacle was gonna be stretch for the long wheel based ranger. I didn't have enough break over clearance, and high-centered on a boulder. After attempting to stack rocks under the tires a few times, we hooked up a strap and drug her off.

 




 

That rock behind my rear tire is the one that did me in.

 




 




 

After finishing the rest of wall crawl, we headed back to the parking lot, got the trailered guys loaded up and set out on our trek home. It was a great day of wheeling with a great group of people on some awesome trails. I'll definitely be making the drive back over to Southington when I get the chance.

 

 

Cool bridge on I80 just east of Cleveland

 




 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last edited on Tue Dec 12th, 2017 04:14 pm by Jimmyspy