June 4-7 Colorado Trip And Bachelor Party

[Seth]

B 47. Leaving ASAP. beltway 8 rather than through downtown?

[J Cooper]

B 47. Leaving ASAP. beltway 8 rather than through downtown?

beltway or 610, dont go through down town.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&sour...35962&t=h&z=10

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&sour...=UTF8&t=h&z=10

[bcolman]

great trip, good wheeling, good carnage, good company, if i had pictures i would post them up but i dont so someone else will have to

[DRAGOONRANCH]

we just made it back in. good times indeed. will post more after some much needed sleep.

Sharpe is now in the very exclusive group of "I have pulled a 40' GN" which includes Chadnutz...

[jerryg79]

We are alive.

Im going in to work late.

Coop would you rather me drop off the jeep tomm so i have time to clean out your cooler?

[J Cooper]

We are alive.

Im going in to work late.

Coop would you rather me drop off the jeep tomm so i have time to clean out your cooler?

whenever is good for you. i will be in town all week. just let me know.


kick as trip, i will post picks later.


also... our flight back last night was delayed by an hour. i got home a little after 1 a.m.

seth had to drive 2 hours to C.S.
... and davido drove to Port A!


still worth it, i just came to work a little later (8:00)






big thanks to Jerry, Doug and J for coordinating all the cooking for the whole crew. that was pretty bad ass.

[uglyota]

yes, bad ass trip. Thanks so much to all you guys, Ed, Creighton and Coop for getting the ball rolling (54 pages ago!) and Jerry, Doug and J for picking that ball up and running with it! Some serious effort went into making this trip happen, and it went off without a hitch. Thanks again guys, can't wait for the pix...

[jerryg79]

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

[J Cooper]

that is an awesome time line.

except I did not brake my drive shaft or even the u-joint. i completely destroyed my brand new yoke from JB conversions... they will get a phone call today.

i was about to own that exit!!



it was a 32 spline 1310 yoke. i was going to upgrade it to a 1350, but ran out of time before the trip. guess i will do that now.

[uglyota]

great timeline. another correction: short side inner broke, bellfield escaped unscathed.
and the floppyota needs gears

[JB]

pics *****es

[jerryg79]

Coop I think I'll just come by tomm. I still have all my gear in the truck to unload and Im still retarded tired.

[Seth]

Good writeup indeed. I am pretty certain between the pics and video that were taken, we could make a super gay montage! Now if I could just think of some theme music...

JB, your CO trips make way more sense to me now.

I will try and get some pics up later tonight.

[Seth]

What about the 4wheeler that made me think I was a rockstar!

[Seth]

Ah, and more guns. Anyone who thinks video games cant teach a kid how to shoot should have seen Brady with that saiga 12.