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WRONGLR

WRONGLR

New Member
Location
Soda Springs, Id
Hello, my name is John and I'm a slickrock addict. In 1995 my wife and I made our first pilgrimage to Moab with our old CJ5. I never thought I had a problem until the first time I heard the seductive sound of the infamous "slickrock bark" come from the area of my meager 32x10.50 Wild Country tires. As they say, the rest is history. Now Easter finds my children covered in red dust, whiplashing to and fro in the back seat of our "WRONGLR", my wife precariously perched on a rock outcrop with the dogs leash in one hand and trying to take an off camber photo with the other. All my friends are either spotters or winch cable anchors. My bank balance is as red as the dust on my kids, and if the Democrats get ahold of my tax return I'll be panhandling in the streets from Jan to Mar for Moab money. I've lost all kinds of money playing the numbers. You know, like: 44 and 9 and 35s and 5:13s and betting on Detroits, stuff like that. It's only the 10th of April and I need another fix, real bad. Please help if you can.

P.S. Greetings from southeast Idaho, I'm very glad to have stumbled onto this site. I'm looking forward to meeting new friends and hope we get to wheel with some of you someday.
 
Slangy

Slangy

Sgt. CulPepper
Location
Utah
WRONGLR said:
my wife precariously perched on a rock outcrop with the dogs leash in one hand and trying to take an off camber photo with the other.
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Welcome to RME. I know the camera thing all to well every time my wife is shooting a movie the dog is pulling her arm all over the place and the video is bouncy as hell. Oh well I guess it adds some visual effects and makes the terrain look a little more crazy;)
 
WRONGLR

WRONGLR

New Member
Location
Soda Springs, Id
Thanks for the welcome, glad to meet you.

Yes, we did make it to the EJS this year. We were there from 2am Fri 21st to 7am Tues (I know, to much detail, but I really treasure our Moab time. Yes even the 3 1/2 hours spent sitting eagerly awaiting the winning of NOTHING!! at the arena on fridays.). We spent a very long day on the Golden Spike on Easter Sunday. If any of you happened to be up there Sunday you probably saw some of the carnage and breakage. We were with the big blue suburban that tried to catch on fire at the "tree", just barely after the TJ rolled off the step. We spent quite a while trying to patch up the suburban's wiring and fuel lines(story for another time). Finally decided to leave the suburban for lack of parts. Loaded up the five remaining vehicles(all YJ's or smaller by the way) with the extra people and continued. Saw a struggling Buggy at the crack, a broken FS Dodge at the staircase(I mean seriously FULL SIZE, long bed, extra cab late 90's era, lifted monster Dodge. Great looking truck), a second time that day broken driveline TJ just past the staircase. Just after turning down gold bar lost one of the CJ5s with us to a spring mount torn loose from the frame. Started stacking people on top of each other. Went another couple miles and lost the other CJ5 to the same dang thing. And as you can probably guess it was getting late and our bikini clad YJ was getting a little frigid. We had to leave a few people by a campfire to ferry others out. All in all that day was AWSOME!!!!!!

As far as finding the website, stumbling may not be the correct term, I just happened to be gooogling "rockcrawling" and "forums".

notajeep- We're in Soda Springs, not far from Logan at all. We've only been wheeling in the logan area once. We took a fall trip up Providence canyon with Mr. Wolford(I'm sory, I'm terible with names, but he's a local bodyshop guy I understand, Great Guy) and some of his freinds, it was awsome.

Rot Box- Bloomington sounds like fun. I've never been there but have heard alot about it from my snowmobiling buddies(which is, by the way, what it's going to take to get there for a long time. We still have tons of snow up here.) We haven't down much local wheeling because most people around here think 4 wheeling is driving one of those ATV speedbump/traction aids around out in the hills.

Again, thanks to you all for the welcome, this site is a wonderfull thing, and I hope we can meet up at a trail head sometime. Also I'm sorry I'm so long winded, but I'm as excited as a guy who's wife just said "how can we make our jeep do that?" to have found this site.
 
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