On Saturday, three of us met in Terrebonne to run a Jeep Trail along a Hydro line. The trail is known to be mostly sand and water, with some mud here and there. Melanie and I were driving our green 4-door JK with 33s and 3" lift. Matthew was driving his stock red 2-door JK with 32s and FabFour bumpers. Steve was driving a black 2-door JK with 35s, 3" lift with pucks, and 1" body lift. This is a trail that can be done by smaller 4×4 stock vehicles, but last Saturday, this probably wasn't the case. It had been raining for several days, and the weather was dipping well bellow 0C at night. This meant the ground wasn't absorbing much water, and most of the water holes had a good 3/8" of ice covering it. When we got to expanses of water that we couldn't go around, we stopped and tested the depth with our rubber boots. We took some risks based on guestimates of depth, and were pretty lucky generally. We took our time and tried to be careful. Matthew calculated our average speed for the day at around 2.2km/h. :-) All of our Jeeps survived, although we all have to check and/or change fluids in our diffs, t-case, trans, etc. Steve has some problems with his ESP, and has difficulty turning to the right. Hopefully it's just electrical and not too serious. Unfortunately there aren't too many pictures of our Jeep, because we were in front. When possible, Melanie would try and tip-toe around and take a picture, but often the water holes were just too big to walk around.

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