Thanksgiving in Mesquite/Logandale, NV

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Some of my wife's family lives in Bunkerville, NV so for Thanksgiving we decided to load up the Truck and Trailer and Motorhome and spend 4 days in the Mesquite, NV area.

First fuel stop in Beaver
On the Trailer we have Ricsrx's '82 Toyota, my '87 4Runner, 2 4wheelers and on the dolly is the BIL '92 YJ

Once we rolled into town Wednesday evening we made plans to do a loop on T-day. We were way late for dinner but still had a great time...
We drove up Lime Kiln and came down Elbow Canyon.

 

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This is the first trail fix for the Jeep but we had already replaced a T-case seal at the house the night before...broken center pin on the leaf.

Here's the 3rd repair to the '92.

 

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Every night after we had done the easy pleasure cruises with the kids we went out for some night wheeling around some local trails.
Oops:

The following day we drove out to Whitney Pockets to check out some Indian drawings, we had 4 Toyota's ('93 Xtra-Cab, '99 Highlander 4Runner, '82 Toyota and '87 4Runner and the ever reliable Jeep)

 

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Oh look:

Serious?!?!

Rick teaching school on how to change a U-joint

 

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The following day we loaded up the trailer and headed for the Logandale trail system:

Gotta love the IFS...

Unloaded the Trailer in Riverton and made the drive to Davis County with no problems. I toasted 2 idler arm bushings and it'll need an alignment but all in all I was very impressed with the '87 on it's first trip out.

Getting the 4Runner all cleaned up and blowing 5lbs of dust out of the rear window...

 

[Cherokeester]

Nice pictures! Thanks for posting up.

 

[Corban_White]

In the first two pics, where's the 2nd 4wheeler?

 

[SAMI]

In the first two pics, where's the 2nd 4wheeler?

2nd pic.. It's nestled between the 4runner and the mini-truck..

Awesome weekend Jon!

 

[Corban_White]

I couldn't tell if that was part of the truck or what.

 

[Grim]

nice pics.

 

[Goose]

cool pics, that looks like some awesome scenery!

 

[ricsrx]

John I am just glad that Terrel was allways jumping right in with both feet instead of sitting back and letting us do all the work. I geuss if you own a jeep.........

if you look at Johns face, it has that OH look... I saw it alot that weekend

 

[Cody]

That's a cool area. I've done some wheelin and exploring around the Whitney Pockets area. It's a great January/February trip because it's starting to get a little warm down there already.

 

[ricsrx]

more pics

I thought i would add some from my camera..

 

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John I am just glad that Terrel was allways jumping right in with both feet instead of sitting back and letting us do all the work. I geuss if you own a jeep.........

if you look at Johns face, it has that OH look... I saw it alot that weekend

For the record, we are NOT Jeep haters...but it sure was fun handing out tools and offering "advice", it's been a while since I've been on that side of breakage!

Terrel took the abuse quite well, although I would too if I didn't have a C-clamp

 

[4Chin]

John, I want to see the teeth marks in that new seat after a weekend of hard wheeling in that new IFS rig. I can see the O face in the pictures. . .

 

[LT.]

Thanks for the report. I really like the pictures. On a side note, I think that any make when the minority is always going to break. One trip we were on had one lone International and a couple of Dodges. We just could not keep that old IH together.

LT.

 

[SAMI]

Oh don't kid yourself, an IH will gladly play dead anywhere, anytime; no matter what company it is amongst..

 

[NOTATOY]

Looks like fun John