2009 June Colorado Trip Pictures and Recap

[DRAGOONRANCH]

Here is all the picture links together. Should make it easier to find later on.

Doug's Pictures

http://picasaweb.google.com/DougKrebs02/Colorado2009#5350716200990722274

http://picasaweb.google.com/DougKrebs02/Colorado2009Part2#

And the man of the hour!!!

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_hA-3cmmzlSY/SkJhLbxQ9VI/AAAAAAAACts/ayZf7hK-oK8/s640/DSC_7894.JPG


Trip Timeline (per my sleep deprived memory)

Monday – Drive to College Station
5:30 PM – coop arrives at my office
6:00 PM – get home, load gear, pick up J
6:30 PM – leave for CS
7:45 PM – Arrive at Krebs’
8:00 PM – pick up Colman’s blazer
8:30 PM – goto Wally world and buy remaining food for group
10:00 PM – arrive back at krebs’
11:00 PM – goto HEB parking lot and organize two truckloads of crap into dodgua and trailer

Tues – Drive to Raton, NM
1:00 AM – Arrive at krebs’ and sleep
4:15 AM – Wake up
4:30 AM – Chris Scotti gets lost in BFE, TX because instead of ED’s directions, he follows his GPS which brings him to a bridge that has been out for 30 yrs.
5:00 AM – Get on Road
6:00 AM - Chris Scotti arrives at ED’s
6:15 AM – Call ED, he is driving 82 mph with a 40’ gooseneck
6:30 AM – ED catches up
7:30 AM – stop in West, get good Kolaches
8:00 AM - almost kill guy on motorcycle with trailer
11:00 AM –ED has encounter with Canadian lot lizard
1:00 PM – MOON PATROL!
4:00 PM – we have stopped for gas like 4 times
4:30 PM – North of Amarillo begin driving on 191 mile road in middle of no where
5:30 PM – Dodgua very unhappy with current state of affairs and gets ass kicked by headwind and hills, ponder jettisoning Blazer
6:00 PM – Dust storm in Dalhart, begin series of Sand Box flashbacks for ED
7:00 PM - arrive in Raton, take over entire back half of parking lot of Motel 6, defile toilets
8:30 PM – goto Dairy Queen
8:35 PM – realize Dairy Queen outside of TX sux
11:00 PM – drink a couple of beers, goto sleep

Wed - Drive to Buena Vista, CO
1:30 AM – Creighton Arrives
7:30 AM – Wake up
7:45 AM – enjoy indoor plumbing for last time for 5 days
8:15 AM – goto Denny’s
9:30 AM – go back to hotel to pick up Scotti and fuel up
9:45 AM – get on road
10:00 AM – enter great state of CO
11:30 AM - Sharpe announces our first hippie hitch hiker sighting
11:31 AM – Witness someone stop and pick up said hippie hitch hiker
12:00 PM – Tamor takes over Pueblo Wal-mart
1:00 PM – back on road
2:30 PM – Arrive in Cotopaxi, stop at coolest roadside store ever, enjoy fried bologna sandwich
3:00 PM – back on road
3:45 – “Let’s get retarded in here!” – Dodgua crew getting sleepy, driver begins black-eyed peas montage, awesomeness ensues
4:00 PM – Arrive in Buena Vista
4:30 PM – get to Turtle Rock, realize it is not really conducive to our needs
5:00 PM - find new campsite, unload gear and vehicles
6:00 PM – install crapper with best view ever
6:05 PM – Krebs christens crapper with best view ever
8:00 PM – Eat dinner
11:00 PM – drink a couple of beers goto sleep

Thurs - LET”S BASH!!!! – Wheeler Lake
7:00 AM – wake up
8:00 AM – ED’s clutch is jacked up, begins repairs
8:15 AM - Scotti tells us schedule, states that fairplay is about 15 minutes to half hour away
9:00 AM – Eat breakfast
10:30 AM – Dodgua crew and Sharpe goes to parts store encounters coolest parts lady ever
10:30 AM – Krebs calls Novak for parts #’s
10:31 AM – Krebs realizes he knows more than the Technical Assistance person at Novak and hangs up
10:45 AM – Dodgua crew goes to bike shop, encounters first hot hippie chick, surmises she probably stops shaving at her ankle, Sharpe becomes infatuated
11:00 AM – Meet up with ED
11:05 AM – begin driving to fairplay
12:30 PM – arrive in fairplay….ED begin fixing clutch
12:45 PM – goto sweet gun store across street
1:30 PM– ED finishes fixing clutch, continue to trailhead
1:45 PM – pass trailhead
1:50 PM – reach elevation of 12000 feet, dodgua is smoking at idle
1:55 PM – ED finds place to turn around
2:05 PM – ED unloads trucks, Jerry unloads last night’s spaghetti in weird concrete outhouse
2:30 PM – head upto trail
2:35 PM – ED begins overheating, Dodgua straps him to parking lot
2:40 PM – fill up ED’s radiator at waterfall
3:00 PM – start trail
3:05 PM – ED bends to Clutch Rod into pretzel, continue up trail with no clutch
3:30 PM – encounter first snow – BASH IT!
3:45 PM – Creighton debeads, ED loses hair on hand in “Rebeading Process”
4:00 PM – BASH BASH BASH
5:00 PM – encounter 6’ deep snow, decide logical thing to do is stop
5:05 PM – dangerous snow drifts ahead, jerry and j dispense them with .380
5:10 PM – Creighton drives on 6’ deep snow
5:15 PM – other two rigs follow suit
5:30 PM – take sweet picture
6:30 PM – return to parking lot
6:35 PM – Dodgua stuck sideways on windy mountain road
6:40 PM – ED arrives for Dodgua extraction
7:00 PM – head back to camp
8:00 PM – Subaru game invented
8:30 PM – Sharpe becomes member of Black Eyed Peas fan club
9:00 PM – Creighton cooks up badass tacos
11:00 PM – bed

Fri – Carnage Canyon
2:00 AM – Hippie and people who flew arrive
6:45 AM – Hippie gets his own personal MOON PATROL!
7:00 AM – wake up begin fixing rigs
8:30 AM – Eat breakfast
9:00 AM – Scotti announces that carnage canyon will take about 3 hours and then we will break for lunch and head to other trail
11:00 AM – head to gas station to fill up, Seth buys beer
11:15 AM – Tamor encounters angry local at gas station
11:20 AM – Install “honk if parts fall off” sticker on dodgua
12:00 PM – get to trailhead
12:30 PM – begin trail
12:35 PM – crappiest hi-lift ever is used for first time, Hippie somehow avoids death
1:30 PM – Colman blows bead on new Stauns
1:45 PM – ED attempts to climb giant boulder, awesomeness ensues
2:00 PM – begin can opener
2:15 PM – Scotti has fuel line issue, ED fixes
2:30 PM – Colman breaks transfer case crossmember, turns around and heads back to trailers
3:00 PM – hippie flops for first time on can opener
4:30 PM – Coop makes it up can opener unscathed, awesomeness
5:00 PM – hippie flops on flat ground, breaks window
6:00 PM – Encounter obstacle with boulder
6:45 PM – Hippie flops, doors will no longer fit
8:00 PM – get to exit, DaveO gets close to rolling
8:15 PM – group continues up exit, everyone pulls winches
9:00 PM – Hippie breaks marfield
9:30 PM – Coop almost makes it up exit but breaks front driveshaft
9:35 PM – begin Coop Extraction
10:30 PM – Coop extracted
10:35 PM – Scotti’s winch fags out
10:40 PM – DaveO extracts scotti
11:00 PM – head to trucks
11:30 PM – load up
11:35 PM – Dodgua uses wrong angle for narrow gate exit, backing up process ensues
12:15 AM – arrive back at camp
12:30 AM – cook dinner
1:00 AM – Eat dinner
SLEEP

Saturday – Grizzly Lake and Iron Chest
9:00 AM – Wake up
9:30 AM – clean up food from night before
10:00 AM – begin cooking breakfast
10:30 AM – Scotti, Ben, and Krebs’ buddy Chris head to Grizzly Lake
10:45 AM – begin fixing rigs
1:00 PM – leave for trailhead
1:30 PM – curse Scotti’s direction
2:00 PM – arrive at trailhead IN St. Elmo, meet up with scotti and rest of group.
2:30 PM – begin trail
2:45 PM – encounter bald dude with broken Cherokee
3:00 PM – continue up trail
3:30 PM – Encounter first snow
3:45 PM – Colman almost slides off mountain
4:30 PM – run winch get colman farther down trail
4:45 PM – ED says fork this and turns around
5:00 PM – Colman almost slides off mountain again
6:00 PM – Scotti almost slides off mountain
6:05 PM – Samoan safety sandals fail and hippie falls on ass, hilarity ensues
6:10 PM – Krebs, chris, and fiance’ hike to mine on top
6:15 PM – group that passed first snow decides to turn around
6:30 PM – get all rigs turned around
7:00 PM – get back to trucks
7:15 PM – Scotti and Ben head to Hot Springs
7:45 PM – Rest of group arrives back at camp
8:00 PM – start fire, Creighton breaks out flamethrower
8:30 PM – Prepare 70-1/2 servings of bacon cheese mashed potatos
8:45 PM- group finds out Scotti is stranded at hot springs
9:00 PM – Eat
9:30 PM – Hippie leaves to get Scotti
10:00 PM – Ben arrives back
10:30 PM – Dodgua crew begins loading up
11:00 PM – Scotti arrives back
11:30 PM – 8-10 grown ass men revert to pre-teen fire infatuation when runflats are put on fire
12:00 PM – sacrifice crapper to fire gods

Sunday – Return to Houston
1:00 AM – finish loading, Dodgua crew decides it is a good idea to leave tonight
1:45 AM – Dodgua crew begins trek home
2:00 AM – fuel up
4:30 AM – drive by pikes peak
8:00 AM – Jerry begins seeing things on the road, understands what Patrick Swayze was talking about in “Black Dog” (aka the movie with the greatest cast ever – Patrick Swayze, Randy Travis….AND Meatloaf!)
9:00 AM – stop for breakfast in Dumas, switch drivers
10:00 AM – back on road
3:00 PM – stop for lunch at Dairy Queen again realize how much DQ sucks outside of Texas
8:00 PM – arrive in Bryan, drop off Colman’s blazer
8:30 PM – unload Krebs’ gear
9:00 PM – head to Spring
10:15 PM – drop off J
11:00 PM – arrive home


Nice timeline Jerry. Big thanks again to Ed, Jerry, and Creighton for not only driving, but towing all of the rigs. Jerry and Doug for the awesome food. Really bad ass trip! I still haven't been snowbashing yet. Oh well. Good reason to go back. Never gets old. We covered parts from previous TAMOR trips.

I'm uploading the few pics I took.
http://picasaweb.google.com/ohendalski/200906Colorado?authkey=Gv1sRgCLu9zcjH2_HPbA#


my pics

http://picasaweb.google.com/jcoopercj7/Colorado6509#

click full screen and they come out pretty good.


Here's my pics. Didnt get a chance to do the videos yet, I'll get em done tonight though.

http://s135.photobucket.com/albums/q137/rsharpe08/Colorado%2009/


forgot about the videos! i may have to merge them into 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok1XdSKyY78

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s60FGW22zcw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQUXGssBBPU


my pictures are up

http://s46.photobucket.com/albums/f124/CreightonRea/colorado%202009/?start=all
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f124/CreightonRea/colorado%202009/IMG_2062.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f124/CreightonRea/colorado%202009/IMG_2080.jpg


e-mail sent about fuel

the only one from the camera phone.
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f192/DRAGOONRANCH/Trips/Colorado%202009/06-03-09_1638.jpg

EDIT #1
Album link
http://s47.photobucket.com/albums/f192/DRAGOONRANCH/Trips/Colorado%202009/

Off the trailer at Carnage Canyon
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f192/DRAGOONRANCH/Trips/Colorado%202009/chinamanslineup.jpg

the big rock
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f192/DRAGOONRANCH/Trips/Colorado%202009/bigrock1.jpg

viva la uglytruck!
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f192/DRAGOONRANCH/Trips/Colorado%202009/uglytruck2.jpg

I don't know why, but this is my favorite one of the bunch. I guess it's because it looks so much lower for some reason. :D
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f192/DRAGOONRANCH/Trips/Colorado%202009/lowridah.jpg

[bcolman]

thanks ed

and krebs have you gotten your pictures up yet

[Doug Krebs]

and krebs have you gotten your pictures up yet

no laptop powercharger! Blame jerry!:flipoff2:

[jerryg79]

no laptop powercharger! Blame jerry!:flipoff2:

i know it took almost as long as getting a cd of wedding pictures to shut up my ***** ass sister in law:flipoff2:

went in the mail today. I predict 36 days before pictures are posted here:p

[Doug Krebs]

i know it took almost as long as getting a cd of wedding pictures to shut up my ***** ass sister in law:flipoff2:

went in the mail today. I predict 36 days before pictures are posted here:p

Whoa! That maybe pushing it a little bit! In addition to my regular schedule, I have lots of whacking that I have to catch up on!

[Sharpe]

We still havent seen Dougy's pics from Soggy Bottom...

[breckboarder55]

I'm actually leaving for Colorado in my Jeep today, to bad I missed meeting up with yall. Looked like fun

[Doug Krebs]

We still havent seen Dougy's pics from Soggy Bottom...

find me a site to host a 10,000+ pics a year that doesn't take forever to upload and I'll make it happen.

[DRAGOONRANCH]

http://s47.photobucket.com/albums/f192/DRAGOONRANCH/Trips/Colorado%202009/

Off the trailer at Carnage Canyon
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f192/DRAGOONRANCH/Trips/Colorado%202009/chinamanslineup.jpg

the big rock
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f192/DRAGOONRANCH/Trips/Colorado%202009/bigrock1.jpg

a meeting of the minds
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f192/DRAGOONRANCH/Trips/Colorado%202009/meetingoftheminds.jpg

viva la uglytruck!
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f192/DRAGOONRANCH/Trips/Colorado%202009/uglytruck2.jpg

What 30,780lbs looks like! :eek:
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f192/DRAGOONRANCH/Trips/Colorado%202009/30780lbs.jpg

I don't know why, but this is my favorite one of the bunch. I guess it's because it looks so much lower for some reason. :D
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f192/DRAGOONRANCH/Trips/Colorado%202009/lowridah.jpg


I updated the first post in here w/ that link and a few of these too.

[uglyota]

sharpe I see you shooting video here, let's see it!

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_hA-3cmmzlSY/SkGS1T4KWAI/AAAAAAAAB9Y/RrgLaU_2lVg/s800/DSC_7720.JPG

[Sharpe]

All the shorter videos I took are on my photobusket link and I still havent gotten around to putting the longer ones on youtube.

[Doug Krebs]

Part 2:

Colorado Part 2 (http://picasaweb.google.com/DougKrebs02/Colorado2009Part2#)

[DRAGOONRANCH]

Ok, I updated the first post with all of the links.

Here is Doug's other link from the trip thread.
http://picasaweb.google.com/DougKrebs02/Colorado2009#5350716200990722274

[uglyota]

great pics Doug. You should try messing with your shutter speed a bit to capture wheelspin

[Doug Krebs]

great pics Doug. You should try messing with your shutter speed a bit to capture wheelspin

Problem with that is, if it's slow enough to blur the tires spinning, it's most likely going to blur most motion. Then the shot is crappy. The only time I took it off auto mode, was the night shots. Offroading pics just aren't artistic for me. I pretty much take pictures to get shots.

[uglyota]

Offroading pics just aren't artistic for me. I pretty much take pictures to get shots.

you're doing pretty damn good on accident then...the long-exposure of the mountain before we headed down from carnage is great, and you have some great "lifestyle" type photos in there. I'd consider submitting a couple to Crawl if I were you. Do they accept user-submitted photos?

[Doug Krebs]

you're doing pretty damn good on accident then...the long-exposure of the mountain before we headed down from carnage is great, and you have some great "lifestyle" type photos in there. I'd consider submitting a couple to Crawl if I were you. Do they accept user-submitted photos?

I was screwing around then... that's the only time I was in manual mode. I'll take it back, I did get gay a couple of times, the first day.

The major thing I didn't do was reset the camera before the trip. I had it in the smallest frame and smallest resolution for taking pictures of crap to put on the internet.:(

[KrazyKarl02]

Offroading pics just aren't artistic for me.


Doug, cut a corner off of your man card for using the word "artistic" and "offroading" in the same sentence.

[Doug Krebs]

Doug, cut a corner off of your man card for using the word "artistic" and "offroading" in the same sentence.

Done!

PS... Jones commented on the copyright gayness. If you want a pic without that, I'll email it to you. It was easy as crap to do in google, so I did it....

[KrazyKarl02]

PS... Jones commented on the copyright gayness. If you want a pic without that, I'll email it to you. It was easy as crap to do in google, so I did it....

Seriously, does your man card look like a circle?

[Doug Krebs]

Seriously, does your man card look like a circle?

See whats great about that is, when it's circular, you have nothing left to cut off!

[CheapJeep]

Sweet pics Doug. Are those taken with a D90 or 200?

[Doug Krebs]

200

[JB]

I am planning my yearly trip to CO. I have been all over SW CO, so I am looking for something new. Any suggested trails in central CO with good scenery/camping/trails? I will be in the F150, 2 winches and a camper shell. ANything in Pike NF? What about further up north like Rock Mountain NF?

[uglyota]

come to the buena vista/salida/canyon city area. Should be a lot of cool old dirt roads to explore, pan for gold, fish, etc. Drive up Shelf Road to Cripple Creek. When are you coming?

[JB]

come to the buena vista/salida/canyon city area. Should be a lot of cool old dirt roads to explore, pan for gold, fish, etc. Drive up Shelf Road to Cripple Creek. When are you coming?

Aug 31-Sept 7. I also am going to try and make it up to Fort Collins area and meet up with a buddy and his FJ buggy.

[uglyota]

Fort Fun! Lots of cool stuff up in that part of the state. Colorado State Forest, Cameron Pass area, Pingree Park area, Sand Dunes...
Lemme know if you wanna get together for a beer.

[DRAGOONRANCH]

Alright Sharpe, where's the big videos at??? :argue:



:flipoff2:

[DRAGOONRANCH]

Alright Sharpe, where's the big videos at??? :argue:



:flipoff2:

BUMP!

[JB]

What are the dates for Colorado 2010? If I can find a way to get it there, Bronco will be going.

[DRAGOONRANCH]

Ok, so my vote is going to be a May 29th - June 6th trip so Brady can go (TAMU'ers can get out of the first few days of class much easier than he can get out of Finals, plus this was a mostly 'working stiff' trip anyways. :flipoff2: )


From the 'wagons west' thread...

[J Cooper]

finally pulled the front yoke off
http://tamor.org/forums/showpost.php?p=237846&postcount=131

[DRAGOONRANCH]

Nice, curlys. :D

[J Cooper]

Nice, curlys. :D

que?

[DRAGOONRANCH]

The little curly hairs on it. It sounded better before I typed it out. :meh:

[Sharpe]

Got my videos up

http://www.youtube.com/user/rsharpe08

[Doug Krebs]

dammit i hate the way my voice sounds

[AggieTJ2007]

me too but its ok

[uglyota]

Nice...some good fire 'splosions, and wheelspeed shots :D