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my 84 wagon getting some air in the Hood River Valley area last spring. we found this hill and just started running up it, first time i ever had a subaru lift off. Going through a muddy water filled depretion during an all Subaru wheeling trip last winter up on Goat Mtn. this was my first run through but did get some videos of me going in deeper.

this BS really sucks! but then i've heard that all these places have been closed for sometime just not inforced i guess. a few years ago i heard that Wildcat was closed and that they we're inforcing it so i stopped going, then i started going up Goat didn't hear anything about there but i do know they closed off some good trails about 3 or 4 years ago. i heard La Dee Flats was closed off a couple of years ago besides some of the old mud pits that have been closed some years ago about 2 years back i think the logging company that was working up when they got done went through and closed off everything but the main road going in there. haven't been out in awhile i think spring was the last time on Goat. might need to go and check things out, curious about Squaw too. but won't get far right now i know it will be snowed in. sounds good Jason, we all need to get together and go up somewhere. i doubt they will be doing much up in those places as far as inforcing anything until the snow starts melting off. don't really need trails right now, the road will be hard enough as is.

Nice job! looks good. looks like you have room for mounting your CB under your radio. we'll have to get together and go wheeling someday so i can see your hatch in person.

Awesome pictures! looks like you was the first and only one on top. looks like it was a blast getting up there. i had some work friends going up. both of my soobies we're broke down until yesterday, did timing belts in the grey soobie.

your wagons looking awesome!!!!! cant wait to see how it looks with new bumpers.

man that was a fun day but i do wish i hadn't broke so early. but its all for the better, it is inside the diff. though. i pulled off the highway at the top where rogers camp is to pull out the other rear axle and heard a thunk and my batt. and some other lights came on. opened the hood and was missing a fan belt looked closer and the idler pulley for the a/c belt was missing looked down where i heard the thunk and theres the pulley and fan belt. so took the a/c belt off put the fan belt back on (it was still good) then pulled the other axle and away we went for home. that a/c pulley couldn't have picked a better place to let go, since we where at hard throttle and in alot of traffic go up to the past just before it let go or on the trail earlier. got some repairs to do will need to put another diff. in welded not sure if the welds broke or a spider but its an open diff again only with some crunking noises coming out of it hense the reason for taking out both rear axles. can't wait to do it all over again.

that works for me. i'll call you if something comes up and i can't make it or if i'm running late.

well my other thought about going up there was to continue on that road past Squaw lake and see what kind of road it is. i've been on the eastside of that road coming from High Rocks to a point where you had to go under a log and make a hard right up a steep hill and hard left but it was me and my son and it was late on a sunday so we didn't attempt it. but i've been wanting to come that way from the west and see what its like, exploritory run but never gottin to it. so do you Geocache? we placed one at the summit of Squaw about 3 years ago just haven't made it up there this year to check on it.

think you will have it ready by sunday?

well was going to go up to Squaw Mtn. to check on my geocache, it does require a 4wd especially with a locked or welded rear diff., atleast for a subaru. but TSF sounds good to could go up to Squaw next week. keep me informed jason. to bad to see you moving spiffy, goodluck.

the hatch is looking good greg! can't wait to see it in action.

i'm ready to go out! can't wait to see scoobyclimb's hatch. haven't been out in a while. you know me it has to be on a sunday though do to working on saturdays.

thats a nice looking hatch you got there and at a very good price i might add. sounds about ready to take out to a trail and play.

nice pics! don't think i have ever been on that side yet or atleast not during the day anyway.

i may be up for it if you are still going. i don't think i have anything going on yet. i would love to go down there with some soobies.

the one in the tranny is the problem. this has been brought up several times. its not known for sure if its doable but so far from what i have seen on here in the past its alot of money for machining(the case and the gear shaft plus rehardening) and for the parts themself. i think someone in canada started working on it and had bought brand new gear sets and that was i think a couple of years ago now.

Now how is that a problem?

nice pics!! one of these days i'll make it down there again. i would like to go under that cedar tree too, never seen that before. ya michael , did you get it welded up and how did you like it?

heck that sounds like alot more work and money to fab, i'd just stay open for now until your able to weld or put a sooby LSD in it. i mean your having fun with it and a good time with just the way it is so heck just stay with it open for now.

heck yeah it stays lighter longer, sounds good to me. yeah, wednesdays and fridays are out for me too. but this week is pretty much out also. next maybe but it might kind of a last minute thing we'll see, we've been slow at work and they have been booting us out early so if i get off work early next week i'll give you a call.

sunday sounds good to BUT it is Father's Day so need to see if my family is doing anything first. if not then maybe i'll just see if my dad wants to go

WOW, that sure doesn't look the same as i remember it. guess i'll just have to go back up and see.

thats what its all about is enjoying it. ya, a welded diff can be a hassle at times, its really not that much though and you can choose to either run locked or not. but the frustration of trying to follow someone up a trail and you hit this one spot that kicks your just right that you can't past and knowing that if you had your diff welded it wouldn't be anything. thats what got me, it started happening way to much. of course i was running with alot of modded jeeps, toys and various other rigs so i had to keep up with them or be left in the dark. usually didn't run much with stock rigs and the few that did always stayed on the road and waited for the others to come back down what fun is that. well, i didn't want to wait, unless i had broken something and had no choice but then sometimes i wasn't the only one waiting because of that.

sweet video!!!! nice job jason!! wheres that at? it doesn't look at all familiar.

well crap Jason. i thought about possibly calling you and seeing if you wanted to go wheeling, I'm not that far from you. my parents went out of town for 2 weeks and i've been staying out at their place all week. they live up above Eagle Fern Park just South of you and just west of Wildcat Mtn. would have been real easy to meet you in Estacada. Dammit! oh well, sounds like you had a good time. pretty cool you met up with Michael. hopefully that video will get posted, would love to see it. if the snow wasn't so bad when we was up there with Greg and Gary i would have taken you guys over to the Hillock Burn side and went home from there. last time i was up there about a month ago with some jeeps we ran into some snow that they and a Land Rover Defender couldn't even get through but we we're close. anyway, we'll have to work on getting all these portland area soobies together and have a subaru offroad outing. it would be cool to get a bunch of subarus together to go wheelin.