Thanks Brad for organizing that one, good times, great wheeling, awesome fire

and especially thanks for the shooting lessons, made it fun and safe! And It only took me 2 days to finally hit a clay pigeon LOL

I'm sure Brad will come up with the 2 pics he took all trip soon.

Mike

 

ya, that was a really good trip, we got in all of the untraveled trails and found some really cool stuff that I think very few people have ever seen. And to top it off, full moon, warm weather, lots of clay birds and less than an hour drive out for me.

I think the general concensus here is that inkopah is short easy trail, but that is not the case at all, I'll have to take more folks out and show them the "magical cavern valley". There is a whole other valley south east of valley of the moon that only has one way in and it is pretty difficult trail.
I'll get up the pics tomorrow, I'm burnt out now...

 

Nice. Do you mean southwest or east. Southeast of Inkopah would be Mexico. Looking forward to the pics.

 

yup practically mex, and a sweet trail to get there.

 

we're having withdraws

 

I never take pics and like wheeling with people who dont stop at every little ledge, or try to spot me through the most simple of sections...We just kept moving, crawling and climbing.

I think Spaugh took like 3 pics of his truck, about 30 scenery pics LOL and 1 of me posing on like a six inch rock

 

not a lot of wheeling photos, we were having too much fun driving. Here are some of the caves and stuff we found. Here is a link to my webpage.

http://spaugh.homeunix.com:8000/medi...ampingFeb2007/

I think my buddy bryan may have more photos, I'll add more later.

Here is the map, we made it to all the places on that map including the spots in purple circle. Most of the photos are in the southeast purple circle on the map. There appears to be a road to get there from near the mine, but that one is closed. We went through some mountains to get there.

 

I never knew about the "tough wheeling" area. We may need to plan a day trip....

 

that trail to the back valley was short but sweet, if we ran the tabl emnt trail then up the back and into that valley well...that would be a day of wheeling for sure!

Mike

 

if we are gonna do it, lets do it soon, its getting warm quick. My lips feel like fried eggs just from one day out there in the 80s. You wanting to camp in the back valley? If you want to kill some more clay birds, we can head back to there. If not, I'm down to get back into the north side and camp a night.

EDIT: you know its not a long drive out when you are going 110MPH in a taco...

 

nah i was doing like 130 out there with my ebay chip, throttle body spacer and whistle tip. you got a point about the heat though...lets maybe late this month early next...lotta trips coming up.

 

i was out there on saturday (2/10/07) It was great. My buddy got a ticket for no regristration on his toyota that he trailered in. A rainger got him. I have never heard of this before! oh well. The weather was great, the 4-wheeling was awesome. Upper part of eliots mine was the best.
Let me know next time you guys go. I live in SD and love to go out there as much as possible.
-Kevin

 

Sounds cool.

Mike, that picture makes me wonder how you got up there.

 

Brad how about early next month(Mar) we do a early Sat mornin day run and you can show us some stuff we haven't seen on our earlier runs there?

Looks like fun and sounds like a few new to our group people would show up also which is cool to!

 

Yeah - Although nothing new has been added to the post, we are scheduled to go out there in two weeks. March 2-4. We are awaiting some maps from Gold Member........er........his spokesperson Marc P.

 

2-4? I might join on the 3rd. Do you guys run cb's so that 2 more could find you ? We know our way around out there very well. COuld very likely find you.

 

^ look at the tierra del sol (POBRE) thread in the trip planning section for details.

 

i drove it up there

looking foreward to getting back out there. yes the top section of the elliot mine is fun in 2wd kidding! i allmost got stuck coming down trying togo over that big arse rock
mike

 

March 30th i am running to inkopah with 2 others (Jeeps) to crawl around. anyone want to join let me know. we usually meet at Tavern road and caravan out from there.

 

I am retarded. I meant the 31st