A newbs POV in Moab

[76zimmer]

This was my first time to Moab. It was through the offer of Eric (Blazinzuk) that I was able to partake in the BB10. I have been throughout the Rockies of CO, the Blackhills of SD, the Smokies, Adirondaks, and a few others in the Eastern US, but the RedRock of the LaSal mts. and surrounding areas were new to me. Being from MI, the majesty of mountains is an awesome sight to behold. The sun shining on them in the early morning and late afternoon is a beautiful treat to the eyes.

Here are my pics from the trip, in no particular order.

We went out with a group to BFE on Friday...played around most of the day there.
Alan (ALF4444) was cursed by a big rock on the t/c and transmission that cracked his T350 case....he was done for the weekend. I was fortunate enough to help him, his wife, and his buddy quench their thirst a couple nights tho.

This is Chris (38377k5) what an awesome rig....makes this stuff look almost easy.

Erics' "Horton", what a simple yet very functional vehicle. There just wasn't much to slow this machine down. I left the area with only one word for it....Impressive.

Tom from ORD....very cool, and equally capable rig. He was having fun with it.

This is Dirks very clean rig....I do think he scratched the rocker slides though.

 

[76zimmer]

More of Dirks rig...

I met so many people, I can't remember who they were, and what rig they were with, but here is a couple truggy's at BFE with us.

Time for a late lunch and BS sesssion.

Brent's awesome first gen:

Taking the hard line out

I think Kert had issues on Friday, well most of the weekend I guess. What a way cool rig though:

A view down Main st.

Headed out on Poison Spider Saturday:

A little tire kiss for good luck;

Some Cacti

Kert (DIY4X), coming up the gulley

Erics rig coming up too:

 

[jms]

Zimm, good to meet you, and glad to hear you had fun. As for the red rocks, I'd say you've just seen a small sliver of them...

 

[76zimmer]

Our 3 vehicle group had our share of problems, but in the end we fixed em all, but it was too late to finish the trifecta, not knowing if more problems would catch up with us.
Here we are coming back out of Poison Spider...


Kerts K5

Eric's truck tipping into the crevice:

Flexing it out:

Kert coming back up:

Flexing it out:

Kert flopped it coming back down, trying to flex it more....

Its all good:

Sunday we headed up Pritchett with Chaddy:

This is Eric going up Chewy

Chad coming up Chewy, balls to the wall style

 

[76zimmer]

Brent (Erics' buddy) coming up in his flat fender

This would be me in Eric's truck coming up rocker knocker:

I did eventually make it with the help of a couple spotters, and coaching to get it up over that huge rock. Way cool.


Chaddy trying rocker knocker;

 

[Chaddy]

Nice meeting you! I had a great time running Pritchett with you guys.

 

[76zimmer]

Same here Chad, glad you saw us Sunday AM....it was a fun day. I wish I would have had more time in SLC before my flight out...it would have been cool to hit the snakes.

I really like the videos you guys got.

I particularly like this one, cuz I kicked the rocker knockers ass!
Oh, and thanks for the spotting on the line I took, it made it seem almost easy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM2WJJU2Kto

And a great one of Chaddy in action on the chewy...or the rock chucker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQoYE4EYuF8



coming down chewy/rock chucker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT8URt0mE6A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI6hAvJvj4A

 

[76zimmer]

Oh, and one more thing....I highly condemn the Mexican restaurant across the street from the Ramada on Main st. They are ripoffs....charging for food not ordered.....not a good group to deal with IMO.

 

[AJMBLAZER]

Awesome man. I need to make it out for one some day.



Was this the heavy hitter run or pretty much only you guys showed up?

 

[Chaddy]

Awesome man. I need to make it out for one some day.



Was this the heavy hitter run or pretty much only you guys showed up?

It was just us

 

[AJMBLAZER]

Yeah, think I'll be riding. My junk will probably never progress beyond 33's.

 

[BGKYK5]

Yeah, think I'll be riding. My junk will probably never progress beyond 33's.

Oh, come on. You can do Moab on 33's.

 

[AJMBLAZER]

Yeah, but where these guys park would probably require bigger than that.

 

[BGKYK5]

Just use more throttle.

 

[AJMBLAZER]

Uhm...been there done that...broke stuff...went broke.

 

[76zimmer]

I'm pretty sure there were rigs on 33's out there, sure alot of 35's and 37's too.
But I hear a lot of the trails have bypass' too.

 

[AJMBLAZER]

Well, we'll see what happens. I'd just like to have it running reliably and finally painted by this time next year.



I think I said that a year ago.

 

[Hogback Fabrication]

Yeah, think I'll be riding. My junk will probably never progress beyond 33's.

You'd be amazed how much you can do out there with a K5 on 33's with very little chance of body damage, lots of fun!

There is always an open seat though too

 

[mrdrinksalil]

You can do a LOT in moab on 33's. Us east coasters were absolutly BLOWN AWAY by Moab traction. There is NOTHING like that traction wise on the entire east coast.

Isn't there a harder line to the right of rocker knocker? Two humps that play hell on wide variety of wheelbases if I remember correctly? Or am I huffin paint today? I'd try it in Chris' rig

 

[blazinzuk]

Well I really enjoyed Daves company. It was a blast, made me appreciate some of the things I really don't sometimes.

And yes the mexican restaurant Dave speaks of should be banned by all blazer bash attendees