This clip is for Tone but I thought everyone else would enjoy it as well. You should be rolling on the floor by the time it is over.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...729&q=lion%27s
Todd
Super VXer
This clip is for Tone but I thought everyone else would enjoy it as well. You should be rolling on the floor by the time it is over.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...729&q=lion%27s
Todd
Administrator
OMG!!! Can I say wimp!!!!!! Only 10 bucks to die?? It wasn't that bad was it Tone?.. I wanna do it next year!
Scott / moncha.com
Super VXer
you do it I'll do it.
LOL.
-biju.
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He lingers -- happily -- in a new hybrid state of semi-hormonal adolescence and responsible self-reliance.
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Super VXer
Wow! Great video. I heard there was a lot of room on top to turn around. Did that guy not go all the way to the top? How are we going tom get 7 VXs up there? Think about what a great picture thayt would make!
Peace.
Tom
p.s.
Biju,you do it, I'll do it.
"Through Great Sacrifice..... Great Rewards Will Be Achieved"
Administrator
Oh! so, this is all based on me... Huh? Bring a change of shorts if you need them.. Cuz we gonna do it!!
Super VXer
For those who don't have the time to watch the entire 18 minutes of video here is the summary...
Starts to drive, begins whinning before he even gets to the start...starts to climb..."I'm so scared"..."I'm so scared"..."I'm so scared" 100 more times...breath as if you are running beside the jeep not driving it...add in a few "i'm insane's"...turn around...I'm so scared"..."I'm so scared" 100 more times..."I have balls of steel" (editors note: Yeah right)...I'm so scared"...pray to god..."I'm so scared"...get out, change underwear!
Wonder if he had one of those "you wouldn't understand" stickers?
Billy Oliver
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I seriously gave consideration to it this year, but backed out when Mark and I helped Tone up and down...
why? it's a confidence issue... I have a (chickenlittle) *need* to see another VX do it first to gain confidence in my team (The Dragon & myself). Remember - I'm still relatively new to off road adventures!...
It's TOTALLY doable, but tapping into a *wee bit* of insanity is a must!
-biju.
Administrator
You know I'm CRAZY!!!!
We'll warm up this summer
Super VXer
While watching, I kept waiting & waiting for the "hand of doom" to reach down from on high & "thin out the herd"...but alas, no such luck.
His constant sniveling made the vid. more scary to watch than the actual experience probably was.
Favorite quote has gotta be: "I'm not showing this video to my insurance company." No S#!+ !
Super VXer
WOW - that was intense!!
Yeah, he was whining a little, but when he was pointing straight up at the sky on the way up and then straight down at the ground... HOLY FASHIZZLE!!!
So Tone made it up there in his MB? Have any VXs tried it yet?
Super VXer
[QUOTE=VehiGAZ]WOW - that was intense!!
Yeah, he was whining a little, but when he was pointing straight up at the sky on the way up and then straight down at the ground... HOLY FASHIZZLE!!!
QUOTE]
When in Moab much of your time is looking straight up to the sky or at the ground. We do much steeper stuff than this on most of our trails. The only thing that makes Lionsback scary is the drop off on either side of the fin.
The word is, Lionsback and Dump Bump have been sold to a housing developer and this year may be the last that they are accessible.
I did try to talk Linda into it this year. Because it goes nowhere and accessing it from the backside is really life threatening since there have been fatalities, we have never done it, but for various reasons she refused even knowing it may be closed for good. Just for the record we have never ever done something just to say we did it and this is part of the reason she refused not because she is scared of it. We have never done Potato Salad Hill for the same reason.
Todd
Member
Watching it now. What's cracking me up is how the camera's shaking when he's out of the Jeep showing the landscape.
LMAO: "I still have all my bodily fluids in me..."
"I'm gonna have nightmares for the rest of my life. I'm gonna want to sell my jeep..."
"Get me the HELL off this thing..."
"I'm locking the rear axle. Because someone on the forum said to do that when you came down this."
Like his own common sense couldn't tell him to do it?
"You can do this. You can do this Micah. Because you have balls of steel! And you're stupid."
"Okay. Another few hundred feet to go, you can get out and cry like a baby..."
Thanks for the entertainment!
Super VXer
I'll bring my camcorder next year... we should do a spoof of this vid! It'll help ease that feeling of CERTAIN DEATH!... and make for even more good times.
LOL...
-biju.
Super VXer
Wow.... I want to punch that guy just for his whining. Do it and shut up. Next time you go out for some adventures, pick up a 6 pack of SELF CONFIDENCE!!!!
Gary Noonan
'01 S/C VX / '18 Forester XT
VXer in the Sky
I don't believe I uttered a word up or down the fin as I was too busy focusing on the task at hand. My chest and arms were sore from hanging onto the wheel. It is not a technical trail but video or pictures will never do justice to the difficulty.
Biju was ok with me doing it while we stood at the bottom but once we started just walking it, he quickly changed to 'I don't think you should do this....". The VX would do fine on this with aired down tires and a calm driver as evidenced by a stock Merecedes with street tires and open diffs.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...50764141881715
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