Well, the weekend is over, and I made it back home safe. Over the weekend, Flygtenstein, Schaeffer, ABQJim, Mike Brown, myself and all associated family members decided to hit up Moab for some playing in the rocks. Check out this picture, and click on the picture to see my homepage with more shots.

 

Hey Steve, awesome pics! Any carnage at all for you guys? Looks like the station wagons did quite well!

 

whoah, those are some great pictures! but where exactly is the part for beginners?

 

very well, I would say. No carnage. A few scraped bumpers, I even scraped mine, but all went very well.

 

The asphalt

Actually, Moab does have some easier trails, ya just gotta find them. Mike Brown has a book of trials that are in Moab. Some of these pics are alternate routes that Schaefer and I tackled.

 

Looks like a great trip. Someday I will have to make that trip (when I get locked).

 

i was just kidding.

you mentioned on the pic page that it was a good place for beginners to experienced, and i just wondered if the beginners did all that climbing too.

 

im new here and am researching 4runners and stuff, and went to your site steve, and loved the pics from moad btw, but i did notice that the links for the 99 4runner LTD dont work?!? i was disappointed as it looks very impressive. pics look like fun, i would love to visit moab one day

wes

 

Yup, I'm still working on re-working the site. Be patient young grasshopper.

 

will do, just didnt know if you were aware of it or not, thanks for the reply, keep up the nice work

wes

 

Looks like you guys had a lot of fun. I'm jealous.

 

Great pictures!! I need to get out there one of these days. I didnt see any pics of Adrians rig??

 

WOW! That looked like tons of fun! Moab rules!

 

Oh man that looks like a lot of fun!!!

 

Awesome pix steve.

 

SteveO-

Great Pics...I hope to head out for the TLCA event next spring.

Also, I have heard of stacking rocks to get over an obstacle..BUT SWEEPING THE TRAIL Was that Schaefer in the picture with the broom? Does he have special mounting brackets on the top of his rig for the broom

Schaefer if your out there...back to work on those bumpers!

 

I didn't see the red cheeze-mobile in the pics. Did adrian not drive? I'm kinda partial to the 2nd gens ya know.

 

Adrian's rig is STILL in the ORS shop. Adrian was bummed that he couldn't be driving his own rig, so he rode shotgun in mine. When he wasn't riding, he was spotting. When I wasn't driving, my wife was driving (especially on the really hard stuff).

Yeah, Schaeffer was sweeping Double Whammy clean. He wanted to make sure he got some good traction on this one. I broke an axle stubb on Double Whammy last year, and this year, I bumped right up, before the street sweeper Schaefer did his work.....

We were all giving him a hard time about that, but I'm sure his wife was pleased that he did do it, and didn't break anything.

 

I gotta tell ya all. Schaeffer's tires look really big, compared to mine. Despite his tires only being an inch bigger (on paper), they looked a lot bigger.

Schaeffer found the perfect bumping gear; I think it was low, and 2nd gear, or something like that. I don't know, but in Moab, ya gotta bump lots and lots of obstacles to get up them. Jim was really hessitant about getting up an obstacle, for fear of busting out his passneger rear quarter window. But, after some coaching, and giving the right bump distance, he powered right up.

I think Brown did most of the trail unlocked, as he stated to us on the CB. He has a rear locker, but used it sparingly.

 

Uh oh, I may have let the cat out of the bag. I didn't know it was a top secret thing, if it was supposed to be a top secret thing. Well, let it be known, its in the shop for some work. I know the details, but I better not give anymore info, before he has a chance to spill the beans.