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| Author: | MJR [ Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Ahh Moab! |
Ok guys/gals see you all when you get here. Andy and I just pulled in today for the Easter Safari madness. I brought my bike out so I can take a trip to CO or just ride around all the beautiful places here. I'll post some photos if your lucky. 
Mike R |
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| Author: | Burchie [ Sat Apr 08, 2006 10:09 pm ] |
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Nice... How is the weather? And by the way, do you work? Like have a real 9-5 job? What's your secret? I want to be like Mike. |
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| Author: | desertliberty [ Sun Apr 09, 2006 12:50 am ] |
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Quote: And by the way, do you work? Like have a real 9-5 job? What's your secret? I want to be like Mike.
Leave it to Mark, to say what we are all thinking. Thats some funny S%$#, I dont care who you are. Brian |
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| Author: | MJR [ Tue Apr 11, 2006 12:04 am ] |
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Burchie wrote: Nice... How is the weather?
And by the way, do you work? Like have a real 9-5 job? What's your secret? I want to be like Mike. Sat was about 80 degrees with some clouds, Sun was 85 degrees with not a cloud in the sky, and today was a few clouds and 85 degrees again. Rough I know 
I try to work as little as possible these days. Sort of. Working to live not living to work.
Mike R |
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| Author: | Andy Steiner [ Tue Apr 11, 2006 12:25 am ] |
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Burchie wrote: And by the way, do you work?
Ah yes... work, spelled W H E E L. Lucky to retire young and have a VERY supportive wife. |
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| Author: | MJR [ Tue Apr 11, 2006 1:03 am ] |
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Here's a few photo links and a few to look at. http://gotgroceries.net/Moab%20Easter%20Jeep%20Safari%204-06/EasterJeepSafari4806/index.html http://gotgroceries.net/Moab%20Easter%20Jeep%20Safari%204-06/EasterJeepSafari4906/index.html http://gotgroceries.net/Moab%20Easter%20Jeep%20Safari%204-06/EasterJeepSafari41006/index.html 
Mike R |
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| Author: | Edvalencia [ Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:02 am ] |
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Great photos. Where is that cabin located? How did that Toyota do? Man, I just can't wait. |
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| Author: | MJR [ Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:54 pm ] |
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Edvalencia wrote: Great photos.
Where is that cabin located? How did that Toyota do? Man, I just can't wait. On the Dome Plateau trail. Just fine. Toyota sent some out with guys to drive and allow others to drive on the trail only. They were cool seeing them out on the trails and the guy with us is a good driver. It was fun and we got some cool insulated leather gloves and a map pouch for being there. Mike R |
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| Author: | lilmatty [ Wed Apr 12, 2006 12:03 pm ] |
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Laura was really diggin' the photos until she got to the rool over. My bad. |
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| Author: | MJR [ Wed Apr 12, 2006 3:36 pm ] |
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Well here's a link to yesterdays and warning there is a video of a rollover on Potato Salad Hill. Photo album link. http://gotgroceries.net/Moab%20Easter%20Jeep%20Safari%204-06/EasterJeepSafari41106/index.html Rollover video. http://www.wolfenet.org/%7Esocalxj/videos/P1010471.MOV 
Mike R |
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| Author: | lilmatty [ Wed Apr 12, 2006 4:24 pm ] |
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So, Mike, on your pic gallery whose KJ was that with the 35s? Was that another Corp hothouse flower? mt |
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| Author: | 0311_DoC [ Wed Apr 12, 2006 4:49 pm ] |
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Isnt that the Liberator ??? |
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| Author: | raceinfan [ Wed Apr 12, 2006 6:32 pm ] |
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it doesn't look like a factory KJ rear end housing ? unless they've changed |
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| Author: | LuckeyDuckey [ Wed Apr 12, 2006 7:36 pm ] |
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honestly, that's one of the worst rollovers i've ever seen--and i've watched rock crawlers videos. is that guy ok? guess he won't be driving out of moab.... i beginning to think all the animals in your photos are just photoshop'ed in!  i mean, we go out and only see birds and lizards and you get, what were those, water buffalo? and snakes? i think i've only seen like 5 wild snakes in my entire life!
great photos, scary video! |
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| Author: | Andy Steiner [ Wed Apr 12, 2006 8:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | The Continuing Adventures of Woody and the Whale |
Tuesday, Woody and the Whale were invited by an old friend from NAXJA, Derek Krantz, to join him running Flat Iron Mesa as that trail was not on Easter Jeep's calendar for today. Also joining us was Jay and his wife Christine, Gary our trail leader and Justin, Derek's passenger. Speaking of passenger, Rollins was my passenger today. His rig suffered some carnage at Area BFE yesterday, cracking the axle side trackbar mount. He left Woody at Moab 4x4 Outpost for repair and rode along with me. We met up at the Chevron station at 8:30AM where I found Rollins crawling under his rig looking for the source of some unwanted noise. After dropping his rig off, we drove down to the trailhead and aired down. Rollins walked through much of the trail looking for critters. He did find a few. You've got to see the photo of the steer. We went down Tilt A Whirl, up Tilt A Whirl and back down again. We headed over to the Hatch Wash overlook for lunch where we found a snake. Justin turned into a kid and just had to play with it. Mikey got some great close-up pics of it. Then we headed over to Easter Egg Hill, where we all went through. Yes... even me. Man, it's good to have great spotters. Better to have them at the really narrow spot in the trail just pas East Egg Hill. If you miss there, you drop hundreds of feet straight down into the canyon. We finished the trail early and headed back into town. We decided to do over to Potato Salad Hill to watch to crazies play. I dropped Rollins up at the top of the hill as an old Ford pick with tractor tires was making an attempt up the left side of the hill. I drove down to the bottom of the hill looking for a parking spot, just in time to see the Ford lose it and roll three and a half times into the hole. The truck had no cage and the roof collapsed the first time it hit the passenger side. As luck would have it, Rollins was recording video as the truck rolled, so we can see the first couple of turns before the truck disappears behind the boulder. The driver was hurt, how badly we don't know. The sheriffs arrived within 3 minutes, followed by EMTs and rescue squad. By the time sheriffs got to the scene, onlookers had hooked three winches onto crushed truck, pulled it onto its side and extricated the driver through the sunroof. Honestly, this was not the type of carnage we wanted to see. After seeing so much beef on the hoof today, we wanted to eat some beef, so we had dinner at Buck's Steak House. (I'm not going to make that mistake again!) Finally, we finished the evening off with a slide show of all our photos back in Chez Whale. All the photos here: http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y33/andysteiner/off%20road/EasterJeep%20Safari%202006/Flat%20Iron%20Mesa/ Jay and Derek 
Sniffin' some butt... sniffin' some butt... 
Tilt A Whirl 
That's an imposing front end. 
Derek stuffing it. 
This is either the Three Stooges or the Marx Brothers wearing Chinese hats 
Easter Egg Hill 
The aftermath. 
Rollins has much better photos. Make sure you look at his. 
Crowd watching. 
Signing off from Moab, It's all about The Wood... |
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| Author: | MJR [ Wed Apr 12, 2006 10:27 pm ] |
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lilmatty wrote: So, Mike, on your pic gallery whose KJ was that with the 35s? Was that another Corp hothouse flower?
mt Some outside company like AEV but I am not sure which. It was at the SEMA show 2 years ago. I think someone was taking it out on the trail like the Commander. I think it is cool. Mike R |
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| Author: | MJR [ Wed Apr 12, 2006 10:31 pm ] |
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raceinfan wrote: it doesn't look like a factory KJ rear end housing ? unless they've changed
Looks like a Dana 35 with an aftermarket finned cover. I'll have to look a little closer tomorrow. Mike R |
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