SMORR 8/8/2020 with Lite Brite, Mischief Maker, GRDLOC, etc

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Had a blast today at SMORR in Southwest Missouri. Lots of YouTube folks at the ranch. Got to do some wheeling, pushed some limits and didn't break anything. I did get both front tires in the air a couple times trying to get up a ledge that was just a bit too tall for me. Hard to get footage of your own rig, but my buddy has some he is supposed to send tomorrow. Will post when it shows up.

Here we arrived and ran right into Mischief Maker. My friend Adam in the Blue TJ had been wheeling with them all the day before so they stopped to chat. He broke a yoke on his driveshaft and had to sit out most of Friday while hunting parts. I have some good video clips, but they wont load here due to file size. Apple is killing me with trying to import video from my phone to PC.

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Next GRDLOC rolled up and popped his hood. They just finished a run (I woke up late today) and the engine was showing zero oil pressure. After a fluid check and some diagnostics, they towed GRDLOC back to camp for some work. It remained their all day, and will still being repaired when we left. No video of this awesome rig, sad to say.


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The Lite Brite KOH buggy.

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If I can figure out how to upload the video clips, I have Kevin (Lite Brite) ripping a flair off his fender. My buddy Adam accidently climbing a tree with his TJ, and some good trail / obstacle clips. All in all an awesome day out wheeling. We ended the day running trail with a group from the St Louis area and one of the guys from Genright right up until dark. Finished the day after airing up in the dark and getting a free case of Rockstar from the GRDLOC guys. They still had the rig torn down fixing whatever was causing the oil pressure issue. We hit the Mexican restaurant on the way back home.

Tomorrow it's a backroad, gravel bar adventure into Arkansas. Bringing my trunks and flip flops this time.
 
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Had a blast today at SMORR in Southwest Missouri. Lots of YouTube folks at the ranch. Got to do some wheeling, pushed some limits and didn't break anything. I did get both front tires in the air a couple times trying to get up a ledge that was just a bit too tall for me. Hard to get footage of your own rig, but my buddy has some he is supposed to send tomorrow. Will post when it shows up.

Here we arrived and ran right into Mischief Maker. My friend Adam in the Blue TJ had been wheeling with them all the day before so they stopped to chat. He broke a yoke on his front shaft and had to sit out most of Friday while hunting parts. I have some good video clips, but they wont load here due to file size. Apple is killing me with trying to import video from my phone to PC.

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Next GRDLOC rolled up and popped his hood. They just finished a run (I woke up late today) and the engine was showing zero oil pressure. After a fluid check and some diagnostics, they towed GRDLOC back to camp for some work. It remained their all day, and will still being repaired when we left. No video of this awesome rig, sad to say.


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The Lite Brite KOH buggy.

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If I can figure out how to upload the video clips, I have Kevin (Lite Brite) ripping a flair off his fender. My buddy Adam accidently climbing a tree with his TJ, and some good trail / obstacle clips. All in all an awesome day out wheeling. We ended the day running trail with a group from the St Louis area and one of the guys from Genright right up until dark. Finished the day after airing up in the dark and getting a free case of Rockstar from the GRDLOC guys. They still had the rig torn down fixing whatever was causing the oil pressure issue. We hit the Mexican restaurant on the way back home.

Tomorrow it's a backroad, gravel bar adventure into Arkansas. Bringing my trunks and flip flops this time.
How did Mischief Maker do on that terrain? We wheelEd with her briefly in Big Bear. Well built rig. Nice people.
 
How did Mischief Maker do on that terrain? We wheelEd with her briefly in Big Bear. Well built rig. Nice people.

The trail I was able to video was pretty tough. Huge ledges and boulders and steep inclines. Hollie did awesome. That rig is big, and heavy, but it gets through the rocks like a champ. Lite Brite was really struggling and Brittany was getting snippy with Kevin because he wasn’t listening to her. He used momentum and aggression (Hemi power) to get up while Hollie let the rig work and picked good lines. Hollie seems like a really friendly and down to earth person. My wife was standing by the trail while Hollie was waiting for her turn and Hollie was chatting with her and smiling. Nice to get a behind the scenes look at some of these personalities.
 

I have watched all the SMORR stuff from each YouTubers, I am standing in background on some of the shots. My buddy Adam is in all of the videos, since he was in the line up to run all the hardcore obstacles.He broke the driveshaft at 11:00am Friday and was back for a night run and Saturday. Minimum tire size for most of that stuff is 37 or 38 and I think he has 42" Trepadors. I just ran the trails to and from the hard stuff. The rating at SMORR are 1-6 with 6 being the hardest. They did several of the level 6 trails, but I was surprised they opted out of some of the gnarlier trails. We have some rocks here if you know where to look. I am lucky to make it down most of the 4's and a few of the 5's with a bypass here and there. Everything is +1 or +2 when it rains, and it did Saturday morning. Hence the reason I slept in a little. SMORR can suck in the rain.
 
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