Planning the 5th Annual Colorado Jeep-CJ Trail Ride

[BusaDave9]

I am now 70 miles from Ouray (I'm home). I'm packing up the jeep and I"ll be heading out soon. I think I'll put the top down. The weather looks good.

 

[Posi]

Just landed in Phoenix

 

[Bill D]

Just got to Ouray and are at TheRivers Edge. Check in time is three PM so wife and I are just sitting on our hands waiting to get into our room. If 007 reads this, come on down.

Bill & Carol

 

[CJ]

CJ isn't coming…?

I have a disk in my neck that is pressing on my spinal cord. It is extremely painful. It's caused by my rheumatoid arthritis making the joints in my spine swell.

I will miss you all.

 

[oldjeeplady]

So sorry to hear this CJ. I was hoping it was work and not health related. We really wanted to meet you. You will be missed!

 

[Petescj]

Be safe and have fun everyone. Look forward to the pics when you get back. You may run into a group of Scramblers out there from the CJ8 site as well.

 

[007]

Nice shirt...

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[BusaDave9]

No trail report until the week is over. We'll start a new thread for the trail report but here's what I can say: awesome, fantastic, exciting, more challenging than previous years. And everyone is eager for more. When I asked if we should head back everyone was like "No way! What other trails can we go on?"
This is a great bunch of people to share this experience with. We're all having a blast.
These do get better each year. Last year I said it would be the last. I'm glad they talked me into doing this one more year.

 

[oldjeeplady]

On our way home. Lots of great stories.

This was an amazing trip.

 

[Posi]

 

[Hedgehog]

Hey Lady Jeeper - You got muddiness all over your CJ! I hope the old girl (the CJ ) worked as well as you folks hoped it would.

 

[Petescj]

On our way home. Lots of great stories.

This was an amazing trip.

And I get accused of putting teaser pics in my Scrambler thread.

 

[caveman]

I'm already jealous and I haven't even heard the stories yet.

 

[Posi]

Just got back to my room, great time in Durango tonight, or this morning depending on how you look at it.

 

[mriplaybass]

Just got back to my room, great time in Durango tonight, or this morning depending on how you look at it.

Children, It's 3:46AM. Do you know where your parent is?

 

[mriplaybass]

7:00 PM on Saturday, home at last, and looking forward to next year!

 

[Posi]

Arrived home this morning.
I had an absolutely great time.
Last year was good, this year was great especially Thursday on Poughkeepsie gulch trail.
A really nice group of friends to spend the week with, we had so much fun
Thanks to 007 for setting up a rental Jeep for me and my cousin
Special thanks goes to Dave for hoisting this event, thanks Dave!!

 

[Bill D]

Carol and I got home Thursday and have had a couple of days to get used to driving a passenger car on city streets again. Wish we could have done Poughkeepsie Gulch with everyone but maybe next year. (There will be a next year, won't there, Dave?) We had an absolutely terrific time and met some of the best Jeepers (and a Toyota P/U) on earth. A special thanks goes to Posi for showing us what can be done with two Gerbels and a squirrel in a yellow Jeep. You had to be there. Thanks, All.

 

[IOPort51]

Arrived home this morning.
I had an absolutely great time.
Last year was good, this year was great especially Thursday on Poughkeepsie gulch trail.
A really nice group of friends to spend the week with, we had so much fun
Thanks to 007 for setting up a rental Jeep for me and my cousin
Special thanks goes to Dave for hoisting this event, thanks Dave!!

Did the rental place know you took their Jeep to Poukeepsie gulch??

 

[Posi]

Did the rental place know you took their Jeep to Poukeepsie gulch??

The tj I rented is a 14 year old jeep that had already seen body damage, with small boloney skin street tires. This was a true stock open/open low rider, even came with a receiver hitch to rake in all the loose rocks and gravel as I drove along, came with mud flaps as well. There was a reason why the company chose not to put their rental sticker on this one.


I had permission to do black bear pass so how could they say no to Poughkeepsie.


The last day the starter didn't work for me so I just parked on a hill to jump start it so that wasn't an issue, plus I was warned a head of time about this.


That said, I had a blast, the jeep took a thrashing, and still took me where I wanted to go. You should see how shinny the underbelly is now, I must have shaved off 2 pounds of steel.