While most of my fellow Jeepers went to Fall Fling as was mentioned in a previous post by JohnJohn. I was unable to attend, but did not want to stay home and do nothing. So to be one of my last trips of 2008, I hooked up with 3 other guys of the naxja.org board, and made a family wheeling event. We had wives, girlfriend, and kids all raring to go! ………It was also going to be a snow run as 1-3 inches were predicted by noon, it didn’t happen, lying weathermen!
I really wanted to do something I haven’t done before, but two of the guys in the group voted against me and chose Mill Creek / Bill Moore combo. We did decide not to run Red Elephant up, as it can be nasty in wet conditions. So starting Bill Moore from Empire, just after the beginning switchbacks to the top, one of us in the group started to get really sick, and ended up turning around on the trail. (it sounded like altitude sickness.)
…..with three of us remaining we trekked on, but somehow missed our turn to Mill Creek, ending up going backwards on [Read more...]
