What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend?

[NeverFinis]

Wow sorry you didn’t have a good time!!

Maybe you missed it but I wrote: "As for Cruise Moab event itself? Myself and my wife enjoyed it"

I know it was buried in all the other text about the campground...

The Cruise Moab event itself was fantastic. Is wishing it being longer a terrible thing? I mean, for someone driving a great distance, I think the Easter Jeep Safari is a great alternative choice.. drive time vs trail time...

IMO CM is one of the best TLCA sanctioned events out there.
It’s perfectly clear how long the event is when you sign up. And you must have know how long you drive was going to be !!
I always show up the Saturday before the event starts to get the most out of my trip and it’s only 1000 miles one way for me.

I was bummed when I read you weren't coming. I wanted to say hi. East Coast meets West Coast..lol

I am the type of guy that will walk around and say hi...and I did...met many people.

We also didn't drive straight to Moab. The Gateway Arch, Pikes Peak, Garden of the Gods, etc.. we took our time driving to Moab.

Honestly....when you live on the east coast, it takes until Colorado before the scenery gets interesting... Ok..the Berkshires and Adirondacks are cool...just not as cool as the Rockies.

We arrived Sunday but it was a ghost town until Wednesday, inspection day.

I was also surprised how much of a ghost town the campground became on Saturday, the last day of official trail rides. I assume it was all the vendors who cleared out.

One can not but be blown away by the entire Moab area... as I wrote, one should spend a few weeks in the area.

The reason why they suggest the old Spanish trail arena for camping as so that you can walk to vendors & raffle night. You also can walk around camp and meet other Cruiser heads have a few beers and not worry about driving.

I understand their thinking. I just think ground tent camping at the Old Spanish Arena is a hard ask...

I am already looking at maybe getting a tow rig/camper...I really like your setup.

Being a Ford guy, considering a Ford F350 with slide-In or perhaps used Super C. Trisha (if I remember right) and her husband, has a nice F350 dually with a slide in...she is very nice and she showed me around her camper.

Yes it windy but it’s windy everywhere in that general area.

Every year there’s a CM thread in the event section that you can ask questions.

Yep, I have that thread on "Watch" and I have posted in that thread.

Yes they have great trail leaders the one in the picture name is Rob wheeled with him many times. I think he’s been to every CM that I can remember.

In closing I would say that it’s a lot of work to put on any event. CM is very well organized and everyone working to make it happen is volunteering their time.
Big thanks to all the people that make it happen!!

Rob was excellent, whom I forgot the name of. Thanks for reminding me. Way too many names to remember... He was impressive as a guide and as a driver with that Tacoma.

Jackson (I think?) was the other guide pictured.

A person new to the sport asked a question over the radio and Jackson did a fantastic job of answering, educating and explaining in great detail.. It was really impressive to the say the least.

I hope to meet you one day @Broski

 

[LockedCollector]

Whoever’s 80 I saw on I-10 north of Panama City Beach.. your driver side rear flare is loose and flapping around.

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Nice “over lander”

 

[bhsdriller]

First time at cruise moab was freezing cold/rain/wind and second time was unbearable wind/dust all day long.
I get what you're saying on the tent camping at the arena. Trailer would be no issues

Skipped it this year and doing SAS instead