Epic overland trip on the way to Blazer Bash - The S-10 is back on the road!

[r3dd0g]

It's been a couple days, but I finally got some time to upload some more video and pictures. I'll start with the video from the first day of the AZ run, it shows the drone crashing it the beginning (not sure why it decided it needed to land). That was the first time it has ever done that and it did it two other times on the trip. I'm glad that didn't happen over Alstrom Point...

The second day of the AZ Run had us running out to Toroweap, the narrowest point in the Grand Canyon and the first overlook for the run. We stopped off in Fredonia for fuel and headed out to Toroweap. You can see the stucco look covers the body damage on the S-10 pretty well:

There was beautiful scenery everywhere you looked, even if we were just parked on the side of the road waiting for people to catch up:

They made us drop our trailers at the ranger station, something about 20 foot max length. We wouldn't have had any issues, but the guy with the badge makes the rules... I wish I would have known they were going to do that, I would have left it in Fredonia instead of dragging it 95% of the way to Toroweap.

 

[r3dd0g]

After lunch and taking a boatload of pictures, we headed back through Fredonia through Lookout Canyon to our night 2 campsite in the pines at 7200 feet. We watched a movie that night so I had the screen up.

I flew the drone in this canyon and it did the crash landing thing on me 2 more times. I chalked it up to loss of GPS signal, but that shouldn't have happened the first time. It never happened again after getting out of this canyon:

I still need to edit the video from the drone, maybe I'll get it up later today or tomorrow.

 

[Phil513]

Awesome pics. Wow.

 

[r3dd0g]

They get better

 

[Babaganoosh]

Love the trip, I hope to do one of these on the way to horse shoe canyon, bryce and antelope canyon.

 

[r3dd0g]

Here's the video from the night 2 campsite. 2 more drone crashes, hooray!

 

[campfire]

They get better

Yay!

Looks like oodles of fun.

 

[mrk5]

You 2 are amazing. You're always doing awesome stuff!

 

[ZooMad75]

Seriously. Stop posting drone footage. It's distracting me from the plan on my K5. Between playing Super Smash Bros with my son home from college I spent last night going through Amazon and HobbyKing looking at camera drones. Knowing that I'm somewhat addicted to RC Cars with brushless motors and Lipo batteries, getting into a camera drone is not a far leap. But I got stuff to do on the K5... I need to win the lottery. No doubt about it.

Scratch that. Keep posting drone footage. It's cool as hell. Awesome video and pics for sure. Can't wait until I get out into that area with Larry on a desert run.

 

[campfire]

Seriously. Stop posting drone footage. It's distracting me from the plan on my K5. Between playing Super Smash Bros with my son home from college I spent last night going through Amazon and HobbyKing looking at camera drones. Knowing that I'm somewhat addicted to RC Cars with brushless motors and Lipo batteries, getting into a camera drone is not a far leap. But I got stuff to do on the K5... I need to win the lottery. No doubt about it.

Scratch that. Keep posting drone footage. It's cool as hell. Awesome video and pics for sure. Can't wait until I get out into that area with Larry on a desert run.

Make sure you buy your new drone BEFORE you take the next trip. Or else we'll all be beating you up for not having awesome videos.

 

[r3dd0g]

More pictures! I was a little gun shy after crashing my drone for the 3rd time, so no drone flights for this day. Day 3 of the Arizona run. We're now heading straight back to the Canyon on the north rim, we're going to hit numerous lookouts here, but first we had to get down the very muddy Lookout Canyon and met back up with someone that had to head back to town for the night:

Then we were into the Kaibab National Forest going to various points on the Rainbow Rim Trail:

The S-10 and trailer were fully stuccoed by this point, hardly any white paint showing:

The first point we hit was Parissawampitts Point, then on to Fence Point, Locust Point, North Timp Point, Stine Point, Fire Point and Dog Point. I honestly don't remember which was which so just enjoy the pictures:

 

[r3dd0g]

We all split up and just hit whatever points we wanted to, some went straight to camp, some just hit a few points, but we hit all of them. The plan was to camp on Fire Point, but we decided to camp on Dog Point instead. We had a nice spot in the pines with a good overlook. Movies were watched, beer was drank, wood was burned, but no pictures were taken until the next day (by us anyways)... Here's some shots from a nice little field we stopped in on the way to camp though:

 

[r3dd0g]

One more day of pictures for this weekend and a drone video. I'll get more up later this week but I need to get away from the computer for a bit.

Day 4 of the AZ Run, today we hit the aptly named Point Sublime and Swamp Point (not so aptly named thankfully). We never got a shot with camp setup, but here we are packed and ready to head out. You can see we've scraped some of the stucco off so we didn't get completely filthy just using the trailer:

On the way to Point Sublime we ran across a wild buffalo herd, that's a first for me:

Then we moved on to Point Sublime. We spent quite a bit of time here just looking in awe, this is a must see spot, if there is any way you can get here you should add it to your bucket list for sure:

We took quite a few panorama pictures, but this is the only one that turned out halfway decent. 180° doesn't even come close to capturing the whole view from the point:

Drone shot to give shape to the point:

This is probably the best subject matter my drone will ever capture. I was a bit nervous flying it as it was fairly windy and it crashed twice the last time I flew it, but the video came out pretty good:

 

[r3dd0g]

After we hit point sublime we headed out to Swamp Point, it was incredibly green out there:

After hitting Swamp Point we headed back to camp near Fire Point. I'll continue from there next time.

 

[kgblazerfive]

Love the trailer build, love that you took it out for like a week scenery is awesome really makes me miss AZ

 

[r3dd0g]

Love the trailer build, love that you took it out for like a week scenery is awesome really makes me miss AZ

The "shakedown run" for the trailer was this trip. ~1500 miles, ~1000 offroad, 13 days, 12 nights, 12 different campsites, then we spent 5 days in Moab for Blazer Bash and drug it 500 miles home with a truck that was falling apart. I drug the trailer around the block once before the trip...

It was an awesome trip, I've got quite a bit of work to do on the truck to make it strong enough to drag the trailer though.

 

[ashman]

Love the trip, love the trailer, love the drone footage. I'm jealous all the way around.

Sublime point added to my list of places I need to go.

 

[r3dd0g]

Apparently I screwed up with the video link at the top of the page and re-posted the night zero footage from Alstrom Point. Here's the video from day/night 1 that I meant to link to:

 

[GWeakland620]

In for an epic read later. At the dentist now.

 

[campfire]

In for an epic read later. At the dentist now.

Some people fill holes, other pay folks to fill holes for them. Sounds like you are in the second category today.