- Location
- Grand Junction, CO
We had our monthly RME trip to Western Colorado, running 21 Road on Saturday and Billings Canyon on Sunday. We had a pretty large group on Saturday, 14 rigs if I counted right. Most were RME members, several of the Moab Friends For Wheelin' came over the border to join us. I'd try to name everyone, but I know I'll probably miss a few...
... so I'll tag the RME members I know were there. @Pile of parts , @Jinx , @drtsqrl , @DToy @pkrfctr , @roktoy , @otrees , @LSdLJ
We unloaded at the trail head and found Jeff and Janie Bates ( @Badbuggy ) out there, repairing the kiosk for the trail. Some idiot had shot up the informational kiosk and and they were repairing the damage.
Realizing we had a long trail ahead, we decided to drive the access road up the bottom 1/3 of the canyon. The trail gets more and more challenging as you work your way up towards the top and that's what most in the group were looking forward to. I did my best to get pics of everyone, but the group was spread pretty far apart and didn't get photos of everyone on the way up the canyon.
Around 11:00 we had to make it to an optional obstacle called High Dive... it's a long, gnarly drop that pitches you sideways as you come over it. Several in our group tried it, with Melissa F. being the first test subject. Jeff, aka @drtsqrl , put on a pretty good show... putting his rig up on 2 front tires for about a second or so. There is a pretty big rock at the bottom that your drivers-front tire hits RIGHT when you want to be rolling out of the drop. If you get hung up there, momentum shoots your rear-end up high!
We unloaded at the trail head and found Jeff and Janie Bates ( @Badbuggy ) out there, repairing the kiosk for the trail. Some idiot had shot up the informational kiosk and and they were repairing the damage.
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Realizing we had a long trail ahead, we decided to drive the access road up the bottom 1/3 of the canyon. The trail gets more and more challenging as you work your way up towards the top and that's what most in the group were looking forward to. I did my best to get pics of everyone, but the group was spread pretty far apart and didn't get photos of everyone on the way up the canyon.
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Around 11:00 we had to make it to an optional obstacle called High Dive... it's a long, gnarly drop that pitches you sideways as you come over it. Several in our group tried it, with Melissa F. being the first test subject. Jeff, aka @drtsqrl , put on a pretty good show... putting his rig up on 2 front tires for about a second or so. There is a pretty big rock at the bottom that your drivers-front tire hits RIGHT when you want to be rolling out of the drop. If you get hung up there, momentum shoots your rear-end up high!
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