2007 Rubithon photos and stories

[petescoffee]

Thanks Mudrak. I had a great time riding the Rubicon with you and your group. We had an great bunch and had no trail breakage (except for the trail leader - )

I hope to get back soon and thanks for not hounding the Taco. The pic below is a link to some of my pics. I didn't take too many. Too busy having fun

Great Shots. Especially the ones of my 40 going down Old SLuice. Thanks,
Dave Thomas

 

[mickey_rubicon]

I won some potpurri, soap, lotion, and a pink flying pig wind chime, along with a bottle of yodaman wine, a bushtaxi t-shirt, and a painting of an olive martini plus a 50 dollar certificate to winchline. keeping the painting intact inside a regular cab with two 240+ dudes in it while wheeling was a very serious challenge in itself but my tent never smelt so good in the world

 

[peesalot]

Don, you shoulda won an alternator. I think you got all the loot. Great guy to be on the trail with. Don and his daughter were drivin the heck outa a spring under 40. It is nice to be on the trail with compitent people.

Mickey, you still wanna cover the coffin ( which was a fire pit, on fire ) with tinfoil and lay on it while doing a beer bong ? You were funny as hell that night.

Another great trail ride in the books.

 

[mickey_rubicon]

Mickey, you still wanna cover the coffin ( which was a fire pit, on fire ) with tinfoil and lay on it while doing a beer bong ? You were funny as hell that night..

wow - something I don't remember ! Well here is a shutter link to the Marlin run photos I had. We had a blast. Nice to meet everyone, and everybody was so nice! I think even I was nice?

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0AYsWbRu1ZtmLrY

 

[BudKing]

Raffle

Dave,
Great raffle
Some of Don`s luck must of rubbed off on me.

Won a Corbeau T-shirt, TLCA Hat and
one of the Powertank setups

I called PowerTank on Monday morning and thanked Steve for his support and GREAT raffle prizes.

Mike

 

[petescoffee]

Dave,
Great raffle
Some of Don`s luck must of rubbed of on me.

Won a Corbeau T-shirt, TLCA Hat and
one of the Powertank setups

I called PowerTank on Monday morning and thanked Steve for his support and GREAT raffle prizes.

Mike

Mike thanks for thanking Steve. Power Tank has been a great supporter of the event and of TLCA. I wonder if the other tank winner got the tank on the airplane yet. He has to get it back to Germany.
dave

 

[BudKing]

I don`t know about the plane might be kinda tough to get it on, but I did tell Steve how happy he was and how he ran up to get it.

 

[Brentbba]

Roberto - great pics. Thanks for sharing!

 

[ginericLC]

It was great. I had a blast. Pace was a little slow for me at times. Gabe my 4 year old was chomping at the bit. We are still on our Hicks from the Sticks CA tour. Legoland, SD Wild Animal Park, and Sea World are all done. San Diego Zoo today and then north to SOR and TLC. From there who knows? We are sort of following the coast up. So if you see the Gineric Cruiser running around give us the Cruiser wave. Oh and the 395 sucks for traffic on a Sunday. And those folks building the large houses 100 miles north of LA on the 395 are nuts. It is a bigger wasteland than our desert in Idaho. I don't know what they are thinking building without water. NUTS!

Bob B. was so nice to let us crash at his S. Lake Tahoe Condo on our way to the trailhead. It was an excellent place to spend 5 hours. Thanks Bob and Sue!

Mickey, the olive martini painting was done by my wife. www.wildwildwestart.com It is sort of a nontypical painting and I thought it fit with the CA scene better than a western painting.

I'll post up some pictures when I get back to Idaho. We are thinking we will be home by the 4th of July.

Oh and we are loving the cheap CA gas prices. It is about 30 cents cheaper than Idaho so far. Nevada prices SUCK though. There we paid 3.13 to 3.89 OUCH!

 

[woooody]

I finally laid it over good, after 8 years of running the trail

 

[Cruiserdrew]

I finally laid it over good, after 8 years of running the trail

Ross-Is that at Million Dollar drop? I saw your truck in the springs and thought it looked pretty good. I think you got lucky. Anyway, good times. Will you be bringing the FJC next year?

 

[D'Animal]

It looks like your drivers side mirror is holding up the rig.

 

[Romanski]

We had an awesome time at Rubi. We didn't make it with the Rubithon because our pack was somewhat mixed (Bronco, CJ5, FJ Cruiser). Stories? LOTs of them... from mechanical problems to getting lost, we experienced it all. It was my first time at the Rubicon and it turned out to be way more challenging than I ever imagined.

We all had a great time despite set backs and the FJ Cruiser made it out with only 2 small dings and a scratch and all because I started rushing up Cadillac Hill(was hours late home and had the wife worrying)!

There were tons of people who couldn't believe how well the Cruiser did and it was funny because at some obstacles people were gathering to see Cruiser carnage with cameras and all. One guy actually said "I'm waiting to see the carnage you get and will post it on Youtube"(jerk).... Unfortunately there was none...LOL

Got pulled once off a rock around Big Sluice and used the Hi-Lift once for the same reason. CAN'T WAIT TO DO IT AGAIN!!! Here some pics.

 

[woooody]

Ross-Is that at Million Dollar drop? I saw your truck in the springs and thought it looked pretty good. I think you got lucky. Anyway, good times. Will you be bringing the FJC next year?

It was actually the bypass of the hill. (thousand? 10k? million?) -- the trail to the right. Tried to cross the crack, and got crossed up a little

It didn't hurt it, fortunately. dented the roll bar, scratched the fender -- Luke's tubing on the fenders has really saved the day a few times.

FJC will depend on armor -- I need to spend about 4K to feel comfortable -- ARB or Warn bumpers - ARB rack - Bud Built skids. All pro sliders -- I think I like the sliders better than the rock rails.

 

[woooody]

It looks like your drivers side mirror is holding up the rig.

yeah, that shot is deceiving. I somehow managed to not break that one, but wasted the P/S on Old Sluice. The rear family cage probably prevented any further progress on the roll.

Astute observers will also notice I turned into the roll. And I did NOT put my hand out!

 

[Aaronb]

here are some of mine
http://http://picasaweb.google.com/Theb4s/Rubithon07

 

[mickey_rubicon]

Got pulled once off a rock around Big Sluice and used the Hi-Lift once for the same reason. CAN'T WAIT TO DO IT AGAIN!!! Here some pics.

after pulling somebody else off that big rock backwards, I had only 3 wheel drive my lockrite sounded like a 30-06 going off. good times.

 

[Shipwreck]

yeah, that shot is deceiving. I somehow managed to not break that one, but wasted the P/S on Old Sluice. The rear family cage probably prevented any further progress on the roll.

Astute observers will also notice I turned into the roll. And I did NOT put my hand out!

The rear cage definitely saved the day. You were also in just the right spot to prevent a full roll. If you had been another foot forward you probably would have continued to roll down the slope.


Ross took it in stride though. After we got him upright, he fired up the engine and drove out of it. We threw the cargo back on the rack and the group was on our way. Good times.

 

[peesalot]

Romanski, what about the stranger who got the bronco started and then led you thru the mud hole. That was me.

I tell you what, your buddy in the CJ5 on 33's was fun to watch go thru the mud hole at the springs.

 

[mickey_rubicon]

I was gonna take a beerbong undermudhole status but nobody was willing to get in there with me and hold my nose shut - maybe next year? By the same token there were plenty of volunteers to wrap me in alyouminimum foil and put me in a blazing fir place. I gotta wonder sometimes