Clayton count

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Originally Posted by bigcountry

... for once it was enjoyable to actually be around kowboy.

Bite me.

We had a great time as well ... hope to get some pics up in a day or so.

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Josh's Junk wedged up onto The Old Man's sweet lil' trailer ...

Tight fit for damn sure ... but The Boy said she towed fine.

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Me, Josh, and Roger cut a lil' firewood for the weekend and split 'er up best we could ...

Clayton Country Inn prooved to be a great place for establishin' The Commune and we scored some major brownie points with the new inn keepers by cuttin' up some dead trees that were layin' in the way of his mowin'.

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Roger's "Original White Trash Rig" Masterpiece on the right ...

The Monster Bastard Step-Child version on the left.

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The Executive Transporter all decked out with grass, lawn furniture, and a herd of flamingoes ...

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Friday mornin' found overcast skies but quite pleasent temps as we headed to the Horse Ranch, paid the man at the gate, and steered our merry lil' band towards 3-Stages.

Here, Roger expertly pilotin' the Oil-Burner up the first stage with ease ... and killin' off ev'ry skeeter in the county too boot.

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Josh drivin' the RokBus up the sumbitch like it was the parkin' lot down at the WalMart.

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"Would y'all please hurry the fawk up and fix my Junk!! ...

... please ... PLEASE ... don't make me call Butch for Gawd sakes ..."

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Josh scoutin' out the hardest line on the final, optional climb of 3-Stages ...


... and then easin' right up it without even spinnin' a friggin' tire.

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Roger doin' some elegant 3-wheelin' up the more traditional line ...

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Josh decided to take a most interestin' return route to the main trail from that optional climb ...

proceedin' to hang the RokBus hard on 'er belly ...

and totally, completely, and spectacularly grenadin' the shit outta the passenger front outer on the Dana 60.

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We winched it off the rock and Josh tore into it. Had a spare outer but couldn't install it cuzz the old one was blown-up and stuck real bad inside that big, round metal piece it's suppossed to slide out of. So he slapped 'er back together without it and eased 'er down the mountain ... several hours later.

Slap outta patience and plum tired of waitin' on us ... here's the lovely Ms. Sherry desperately tryin' to call a cab to get 'er off the top of that damn mountain.

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Excellent pics.
Thanks

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So me and Debbie follered Josh back to his trailer at the Horse Ranch while the rest of the group went up and out on Rock Creek. Since Debbie was doin' all the shootin' with the camera ... ain't got no pics of that part of the day.

Bryan was in camp at the Inn when we got there and went with Josh to track down Slim in town to get the blown outer removed. They had fits but got 'er done and Josh rebuilt 'er in camp for the next day.

Speakin' of the next day ... ain't got no pics of that neither since Debbie forgot the friggin' camera.

But ...

Joined by Dusty/Tommy, Bryan, and the Dixons we had a great time runnin' some familiar trails in Green Acres like Wet-N-Wild, Jeff's Ledges, and Cakewalk. Small group of big trucks made for a DAMN fine day of wheelin'.

Bryan's buggy, of course, made us all look stupid ...

The Dixon's argued their way ... while the mini fought it's way ... over the trails ... sportin' a hideous paint job and plenty of NOS drinks for the publicity shots ...

Dusty put on his traditional BIG show with the awesome horsepower and suspension of The Grape Ape ...

Daryl had to break his rear driveshaft just so he'd feel like he was wheelin' ...

Roger did great in the "little" truck of the group ... managing to keep up very well ... while only breakin' the passenger hub.

Josh went ahead and broke the outer on the driver's side also ... but did a trail repair and kept goin' ... sometimes runnin' on a few cylinders shy of a half-dozen though ...

When the rock dust settled ... we were all sittin' 'round a huge Daryl-built bonfire ... tryin' to eat our way thru enough food for an army ... and drink ourselves silly ...

And there's more to come on Sunday ...

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Like Saturday, Sunday mornin' broke with skies of blue.

Kind of day that'd make the local Chamber of Commerce proud to advertise.

Maybe we should consider ourselves an RV club ...

From right to left: Roger, me, Daryl, Bryan ... and Dusty's hidden on the far end.

Josh slept in the OZ tent and the Dixon's opted for a luxury motel room in town.

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While unloadin' for Green Acres at the bottom of the hill, we seen this sweet Jeep-based buggy ridin' on Mog axles ...

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As a hack amatuer philosophizer, poet, and creative writer ... I truly 'preciate ... and respect ... the clever use of words on this trail marker sign.

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This is how the day went followin' Dusty and Tommy ...

ev'ry time Dusty would take the "stupid" line ... they'd both turn 'round to make sure I did the same.

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Nice shot of Roger easin' up the hill thru the woods.

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We decided one more easy trail to end our halfday excursion and Bryan started up a 3+ trail ...

... and got lost ...

... and Dusty made a turn up a section of one of them 5+ trails the Black Sheep cut ...

Crawlin' and Flexin'.

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Lil' bit more than Roger wanted ...

and he was sure cussin' us when the driver's hub let go with a bang.