spinnin4s
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 2:15 pm Post subject: Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
Saturday morning might work out better for me George-I will tele. you first of next week-Maybe we can meet up for breakfast at The Summit? I went to the BAR referee (Bureau of Automotive Repair) this morning to get my Sami engine swap blessed-Everything passed except I must install a 'Check Engine' light instead of the present 'Sensor' light! Made a appt. to go back next Friday morning to (Hopefully) get it signed off...
Rick is bringing his motor home-I will check to see if he wants to go Friday afternoon or Sat. morning..
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:11 am Post subject: Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
Applause Looks like you're alost done with the Sammi Fred. CONGRATS! I've registered mine already. Whoa! Call me Fri and let me know what works better for you OR I could just meet you at the INN @ 7-8 ish. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:36 am Post subject: Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
Roger and I will head out there in the motorhome Friday around noon. I'll look for Rick and see if we can set up camp somewhere with some wind shelter. Anybody with an RV want to caravan out there?
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 12:27 pm Post subject: Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
I need to resolve my Sami issues Friday, so right now I plan to leave early Sat. morning and have breakfast at The Summit around 7:30A. Should get me to camp around 9:00...George, let me know if you are leaving Friday afternoon or Sat. morning? Venetta is also coming...
Reminder-Everyone bring firewood! Rick, if you go out Friday afternoon please monitor your VHF radio Sat. morning-May help me find the campsite...
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 12:29 pm Post subject: Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
spinnin4s wrote:
I need to resolve my Sami issues Friday, so right now I plan to leave early Sat. morning and have breakfast at The Summit around 7:30A. Should get me to camp around 9:00...George, let me know if you are leaving Friday afternoon or Sat. morning? Venetta is also coming...
Reminder-Everyone bring firewood! Rick, if you go out Friday afternoon please monitor your VHF radio Sat. morning-May help me find the campsite...
I'm bringing wood with me. I'll see you guys Saturday morning unless someone else decides to come up on Friday. Roger and I are going to go check out the Jambo Friday night.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:53 pm Post subject: Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
Steve Bennett and I will be out there Friday night... probably not till near dark or just after though.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 1:07 pm Post subject: Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
Hey Mark, the guy I bought my buggy from will be going out there to the Jambo Saturday morning but the runs are full. He has a full on comp buggy that used to belong to Skinny on the Pirate Board. He would like to meet up with us and do a run but I wasn't sure how you would feel about that. I haven't told him about our trail because I wanted to ask you first. He could probably spank that waterfall that we tried last time, we could use him for an anchor to winch from! Dancing Let me know if it's okay to invite him. He's a good guy and lives in Fresno so I don't think he would be going there too often anyway.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 4:34 pm Post subject: Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
Vince called me on my cell a few hours ago. After talking it over, I would rather not invite anyone that we do not know.
This is a Spinnin Fours trail and I want to make sure that we get to establish it ourselves before word gets out.
A comp buggy would probably be bored on this trail anyway.
Thanks Vince for asking first.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 7:24 pm Post subject: Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
Dancing
Okee Dokee Fred, It's the Summit Inn @ 7:30 - Call me on my cell for any other updates....909-519-4999 or 626-422-2999 (I like 9's) Razz
VINCE - Could you pick me up a XL T-shirt from the Jambo and a XXL Sweat shirt. Just tell me what the total is on Sat AM and I'll get you back. My credit should be pretty good with B of V. Eyebrow
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 9:22 pm Post subject: Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
George, The Summit at 7:30A Sat. morning sounds good...I will tele. you Thurs or Friday to confirm..Fred
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Wow what a blast that run was Dancing I think it's safe to say that it was much tougher than anticipated. I think everyone had a good time doing the new trail. So have we settled on the name for this trail as "Crowbar"? Think Can't wait for the pics!
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 4:52 pm Post subject: Crowbar it is! Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
I am still tired... sorry for not posting sooner, but I was worn out when I got home at about 4pm yesterday.
The weekend couldn't have turned out better. We established the first leg of the trail, the weather was great (except for some wind in camp), no one broke, the trail was tough but not anything we couldn't handle and as far as I could tell, a good time was had by all!
Yes, we took a vote at the campfire after you left Vince, Crowbar it is!
We had to winch up the waterfall entrance to the canyon. Vince gave it a few good tries, but that is a very tall, very steep, very slick piece of rock!
The name of the trail came after we were wondering if a large protruding knob of rock would take out my A Pillar... Roger was looking at the rock and the crack around it and asks if anyone had a pry bar (crowbar) and I gave him mine. The next thing we knew Roger had rock pried off of the wall and the way was clear!
Vince came up with the "Crowbar" name shortly after Applause
More stories later, for now, here are some preliminary pictures from Steve Bennett. I will get a CD with all the pics from Steve soon.
Thanks Steve for posting these pics for us.
http://spinninfours.com/trips/crowbar_sb/index.htm<edit> updated the pictures link to our domain
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As always I had a great time running with the club. It was a lot of work but a lot of fun. Look forward to wheeling with you guys again soon. Next time you want to break a new trail just let me know. I'll bring my own crow-bar. Mark's is bent. But his A pillar isn't. Angel
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Wanted to say how much I enjoyed myself at Crowbar this last weekend. For such a challenging trail (that had apparently never been run by 4-bys) I think everyone did exceptionally well. To run a trail like that with no breakage and no real troubles is unusual in my experience.
Mark posted a link to my photos from this trip. We got some great shots! I am willing to make prints for anyone that sees a shot they like. My new camera allows me to make very nice 8x10 prints and I can deliver the photos at the next meeting. While I don't want to profit from this, it would be nice to cover my expenses; so I was thinking $1.50 for a 8x10, and $.75 for a 5x7. If anyone wants any or all of the photos on CD, I can burn a CD for $2. Email me directly concerning photos or CDs
steve@stevebennettdesigns.comCan't wait to get my Bronco back together and back on the trail! You guys inspired me this weekend to double my efforts and finish this project.
Steve
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I was just thinking about our new trail, would you call it a wash? I am wondering if it is now out-of-bounds with that new ruling for the area, this would really suck if it is a closed area. I'm going to read that article again to see.
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