sixstringsteve
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
It was 3:10 PM and Brandon and I were ten minutes late meeting our Hole in the Rock group at Cabelas. Brandon was still welding on his bump stops and I was still cutting out the wood for my sleeping platform.
At 3:25 Brandon and I (and our wives) headed over to Cabelas to meet the group. We were a bit late, but Josh, XXXXX, Brian, Trevor, John and Melissa were there patiently waiting for us.
We hit the road at 3:30 and headed straight for Price. Just outside of price we ran across these guys. Dylan is always talking about the toyota market in Mexico and how people buy them up here to import them into mexico for 3x the price they get here. Until this trip, I hadn't seen anything firsthand, but there were two guys, each flat towing a toyota truck with their toyota truck. ANd these weren't even the 3.0 v6, they were towing with a 2.4L 4cyl, and they were flat towing rigs that weighed more than the tow rig in the first place. I can only assume they went through more than one set of brakes on the trip and that they headed for mexico and their trucks were to be sold for a lot more than they got them for. That's a 1985 pickup pulling an 89-95 pickup (which weighs quite a bit more than the '85). This picture belongs in the "dumb towing loads" thread.
After an uneventful trip to Price, we topped off our groceries and headed out to Green River where we met up with Scott and Alice and checked out their sweet sami and new trailer they brought. We all headed down to Hanksville for our last gas before the airport.
Since the ferry wasn’t in operation for another week or two, we had to cross at the Hite Crossing Bridge. By the time we got to Fry Canyon Ruins Rd. it was dark. Eric heard us on the CB and gave us directions to camp and we met up with him for a nice fire on a chilly night.
It was very cold that night. I remember my wife waking me up in the middle of the night asking for her fleece sleeping bag liner. Even with my 0* down bag I felt the chill of the night creeping in.
Some time during the night Don and Dwayne had caught up with us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8sAn8dOwUU&feature=youtu.be
Thursday, March 22, 2012
It was 3:10 PM and Brandon and I were ten minutes late meeting our Hole in the Rock group at Cabelas. Brandon was still welding on his bump stops and I was still cutting out the wood for my sleeping platform.
At 3:25 Brandon and I (and our wives) headed over to Cabelas to meet the group. We were a bit late, but Josh, XXXXX, Brian, Trevor, John and Melissa were there patiently waiting for us.
We hit the road at 3:30 and headed straight for Price. Just outside of price we ran across these guys. Dylan is always talking about the toyota market in Mexico and how people buy them up here to import them into mexico for 3x the price they get here. Until this trip, I hadn't seen anything firsthand, but there were two guys, each flat towing a toyota truck with their toyota truck. ANd these weren't even the 3.0 v6, they were towing with a 2.4L 4cyl, and they were flat towing rigs that weighed more than the tow rig in the first place. I can only assume they went through more than one set of brakes on the trip and that they headed for mexico and their trucks were to be sold for a lot more than they got them for. That's a 1985 pickup pulling an 89-95 pickup (which weighs quite a bit more than the '85). This picture belongs in the "dumb towing loads" thread.
After an uneventful trip to Price, we topped off our groceries and headed out to Green River where we met up with Scott and Alice and checked out their sweet sami and new trailer they brought. We all headed down to Hanksville for our last gas before the airport.
Since the ferry wasn’t in operation for another week or two, we had to cross at the Hite Crossing Bridge. By the time we got to Fry Canyon Ruins Rd. it was dark. Eric heard us on the CB and gave us directions to camp and we met up with him for a nice fire on a chilly night.
It was very cold that night. I remember my wife waking me up in the middle of the night asking for her fleece sleeping bag liner. Even with my 0* down bag I felt the chill of the night creeping in.
Some time during the night Don and Dwayne had caught up with us.
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