Quickie on Blanca/Lake Como Trail

[mushroomax]

The Blanca/Lake Como area is one of my favorites in Colorado. I have taken dozen of trips up here to either hike the three 14ers (Blanca, Ellingwood Point, Little Bear) or just drive the trail and hangout at the lake but I have not driven this trail in the JL till now. I had some concerns with breakover angles so decided to take all the easier lines and not do anything stupid. The JL handled Jaws 1-4 easily, it was point and shoot the entire trail.

After rebuilding the RockJock front UCA joints I have since had the snap ring pop out twice in the span of a week and replaced with a new snap ring each time so I decided I would trailer the JL for this trail run. Glad I did because the snap ring popped out on the trail for the third time so I will be going back to stock front UCA bushings here shortly.

Unloading:

On the trail:

High line on Jaws 1:

More trail:

Jaws 2. No games here, multiple people have rolled and died on this obstacle... and as recently as this September. I stayed off the high side and took the easy line:

Jaws 2.5 and my baby flex:

Jaws 3 we breezed right thru, no issues so on final approach to the lake. Little Bear is center:

A couple of shots of Lake Como:

Passed the lake and above Jaws 4:

Skid Mark:

Poser. Ellingwood Point is center left, Blanca Peak center right:

Heading back down, Jaws 4:

More of Lake Como with Little Bear upper left:

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[BDinTX]

My mind is generally in the gutter and I was thinking - there is no way somebody would be posting about that…

Beautiful pics though, they almost make up for my disappointment.
Thanks for sharing!

 

[Mountainjeepmike]

Unnreal. This has been on my to do list since I first saw it in a 4 wheel drive and sport utility magazine in 93. Good to see it's still open, and still challenging!

 

[ColoradoMike]

Very cool.
I don't have the will to wade through a build thread, but generally speaking, what size tires and lift do you have?
I wonder how hard this would be in my stock JLUR Xtreme Recon with 35s and the small lift that comes stock with the XR package. Hard, I'm sure. Doable, I would imagine. A good idea, I don't know.

 

[mushroomax]

37s with 2.5" lift.....just enough to get over those pesky speed bumps at the mall

Very cool.
I don't have the will to wade through a build thread, but generally speaking, what size tires and lift do you have?
I wonder how hard this would be in my stock JLUR Xtreme Recon with 35s and the small lift that comes stock with the XR package. Hard, I'm sure. Doable, I would imagine. A good idea, I don't know.

 

[J-Frame]

Oh…well, nevermind

(Beautiful pictures by the way, even if there was no quickie)

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