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We stop at the Big Bend of the San Juan for a photo shoot:
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FAWKING MIND BOGGLING - HitR 2016
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...and for you a$$ men out there:
jfz80
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For what had seemed like it took days to get through on the way in, we boogied through pretty quick on the way out. A seemingly endless tour of amazing sights still boggling my mind like a drive by picture show.
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Best thread I have read on 'Mud EVER!
As someone else mentioned way back on page 2-3, I'm living vicariously through you guys.
I hope to make a trip 1/3 this good at some point upon return to CONUS.
More importantly the camaraderie exhibited by members on this trip and in general make this EPIC 'Mud community what it is!
PS- I want to know more about that coffee setup!!
As someone else mentioned way back on page 2-3, I'm living vicariously through you guys.
I hope to make a trip 1/3 this good at some point upon return to CONUS.
More importantly the camaraderie exhibited by members on this trip and in general make this EPIC 'Mud community what it is!
PS- I want to know more about that coffee setup!!
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jfz80
Cruisin’
Concrete cant even wait to the hard parts so he wheelstands at will now; he might have been messing with Richard a bit 
more sandstone slab on the way out..... Andy lighting up the tires to get up this section
and while it really doesnt look that steep there ... the view from the wheel says a different story
Did you say more shelf roads?
oh and did we mention out of this world, rediculous, totally epic f*%#ing landscape?!?!?!?!
more sandstone slab on the way out..... Andy lighting up the tires to get up this section
and while it really doesnt look that steep there ... the view from the wheel says a different story
Did you say more shelf roads?
oh and did we mention out of this world, rediculous, totally epic f*%#ing landscape?!?!?!?!
jfz80
Cruisin’
SWB powa. Yeah bro! the chariot just chugging along taking everything in stride (although at some extreme angles)
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We are pretty sure he is not wearing pants at this point...
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I've only been on a few of these spring trips that C-drew puts together and the group dynamic is always great. It can't help but be when you are all out sharing this awesome experience together and helping each other get through the tricky spots.
The past trips I've been on only had 4 or 5 trucks, and I pretty much knew everyone going. This year's group size was double that and a lot of us were meeting for the first time.
By the end of the first and especially the second night, we might as well have know each other for years.
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So, as Tom notes, the coffee setup was inspired by @spressomon's mobile espresso lab.
And, indeed, I've received countless hours, hundreds maybe, of schooling on the art and science of espresso from him. However, I do not have a mobile espresso rig,
And Dan was not able to go, so we made "camp presso" using an Aeropress instead. Not quite the same, but still really good for being out in the middle of nowhere.
Here's the complete setup:
From left to right...
beans are weighed & then ground in the handgrinder, then added to the Aeropress. Brew water is heated up nearly instantly with the Jetboil and added to the Aeropress. While that is brewing, milk is steamed & frothed on the Bellman stovetop steamer, which is heated by a Coleman single burner stove. Then the coffee is pressed into a cup and milk added.
Enjoy!
did anyone get video of Drew giving us a training session on how his dual tank set up/ auto filler works?
awesome pictures you guys..man...that WAS some off camber stuff.
awesome pictures you guys..man...that WAS some off camber stuff.
The real key to a trip like this is group of people that you bring together for something as logistically difficult as getting 8 trucks from all around the country to show up at one place at the same time.
I've been going on @Cruiserdrew s trips since 2009 when I was living in ABQ. He's very, very good about setting expectations for the group (individually as well as communally) on every front. Be it trips to Death Valley, Southern Utah, Nevada, Rubithon or the Dusy Ershim. There is a risk factor on each of these trips from the environment in which they take place. There is the possibility of death always. Seriously. It's no joke sometimes (for example Rover Death Hill in Death Valley, or Scary Bridge in Death Valley or the shelf road on HITR).
That said, Andy is very good about keeping the group manageable, keeping the group consistent, and coalescing the group very early on in the form of email communications months before we even meet at a designated spot. Everything is discussed: expectations for your junk to be in tip-top shape, food/drink, meeting locations, what spares people should bring, where we will be going, contingency plans, etc.
I think we started machinations on this trip in November or December of 2015? IIRC.
Andy is also very good at keeping groups manageable. 8 trucks seems to be a higher end limit and I am sure Andy would agree that anything more than 8 trucks and it becomes difficult to manage appropriately.
The Wagon Run this year at Rubithon is going to have 28 trucks IIRC? That is going to be interesting to see how it comes together.
I've been going on @Cruiserdrew s trips since 2009 when I was living in ABQ. He's very, very good about setting expectations for the group (individually as well as communally) on every front. Be it trips to Death Valley, Southern Utah, Nevada, Rubithon or the Dusy Ershim. There is a risk factor on each of these trips from the environment in which they take place. There is the possibility of death always. Seriously. It's no joke sometimes (for example Rover Death Hill in Death Valley, or Scary Bridge in Death Valley or the shelf road on HITR).
That said, Andy is very good about keeping the group manageable, keeping the group consistent, and coalescing the group very early on in the form of email communications months before we even meet at a designated spot. Everything is discussed: expectations for your junk to be in tip-top shape, food/drink, meeting locations, what spares people should bring, where we will be going, contingency plans, etc.
I think we started machinations on this trip in November or December of 2015? IIRC.
Andy is also very good at keeping groups manageable. 8 trucks seems to be a higher end limit and I am sure Andy would agree that anything more than 8 trucks and it becomes difficult to manage appropriately.
The Wagon Run this year at Rubithon is going to have 28 trucks IIRC? That is going to be interesting to see how it comes together.
jfz80
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^^^ that spine was all kinds of crazy feeling but no problem after that short shelf before it.
Was loving that the 2.5" lift and 33s was rocking this terrain across three different platforms. Johnny, Onur, Steve displayed some great driving!
Quote of the day on the trip out. Pinch point below the alcove.
Steve 2 " keep that line"
Concrete "I trust ya man... But u sure about that?!? I do NOT like this"
It was such a perfect scenario to drop both downhill side tires in a hole at same time and flex uphill side. Was no less sketchy going down hill.
Was loving that the 2.5" lift and 33s was rocking this terrain across three different platforms. Johnny, Onur, Steve displayed some great driving!
Quote of the day on the trip out. Pinch point below the alcove.
Steve 2 " keep that line"
Concrete "I trust ya man... But u sure about that?!? I do NOT like this"
It was such a perfect scenario to drop both downhill side tires in a hole at same time and flex uphill side. Was no less sketchy going down hill.
wheel stands? That seat cone is permanent now.
I remember calling the wife from the lookout spot...I couldn't even talk....it was so nice to hear her voice, but I couldn't verbalize a damn thing I was seeing...she just laughed...
It really does something to you, your perspective is so wide.
-that and not having any news inputs or TV or work..finally a clear mind, and a loose lower back from all the twists, and a new found confidence in your rig because you just sent it thru some pretty unforgiving terrain at a high rate of speed.
damnit..so fun!
I remember calling the wife from the lookout spot...I couldn't even talk....it was so nice to hear her voice, but I couldn't verbalize a damn thing I was seeing...she just laughed...
It really does something to you, your perspective is so wide.
-that and not having any news inputs or TV or work..finally a clear mind, and a loose lower back from all the twists, and a new found confidence in your rig because you just sent it thru some pretty unforgiving terrain at a high rate of speed.
damnit..so fun!
you know...I was holding the wheel with Fists of Fury and you guys are taking pics thru some pretty sick lines...
Boggled still...
But I was having a blast charging that Mesa section with the cows...my Icon setup loved it. the harder I could push it, the better.
I would never had thought my truck with the Cal King on top and a taco trucks worth of gear would float thru that stuff and suck everything up so nice. Especially after an hour or so of endless twisting...
Then again, my perspective was boggled...
Epic Level 4 at least.
Boggled still...
But I was having a blast charging that Mesa section with the cows...my Icon setup loved it. the harder I could push it, the better.
I would never had thought my truck with the Cal King on top and a taco trucks worth of gear would float thru that stuff and suck everything up so nice. Especially after an hour or so of endless twisting...
Then again, my perspective was boggled...
Epic Level 4 at least.
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I am just about out of material for the HitR portion...cough it up if anyone has anymore.
Andy, myself, and the Pryor-Barwick party still have two more nights as a group before heading back to civilization.
I'll post some of my other random pictures. You can really see the scope of the space we are working in out here....
It's really difficult to grasp sometimes the sense of "space" that you operate in out here. Much of the time you are lulled into a sense of "normalcy" because it just becomes overwhelming to take everything in.
The huge vistas, massive sky formations, seemingly endless undulations of rock, sand, dune for miles and miles and miles..... The sky sometimes seems to be a reflection of the earth and then sometimes, seemingly unreal, the earth is a reflection of the sky. Rock formations and coves, caves and canyons appear out of nowhere as well.
The elements out here are quite hostile most of the time. Brutal winds, monsoonal rains that come out of nowhere and disappear as quickly as they came into nowhere, sand and dust in EVERYTHING... no matter how tight the seal.