June 4-7 Colorado Trip And Bachelor Party

[uglyota]

...super gay montage! Now if I could just think of some theme music...

whatcha gonna do with all that breasssss....

[jerryg79]

whatcha gonna do with all that breasssss....

winnah!

i'll update once everyone posts their addendums.

I forgot about Garret and J staying behind!

[uglyota]

Want addenda?
1730 Thursday: Hippie locks self out of house, decides to go ahead and buy air fitting and pick up keg anyway, and figure out how to pop lock afterwards.
1830: Give up trying to pop lock, call locksmith
1915: Plane arrivals land
1930: Promise plane arrivals that I am locked out and should be on the road in a half hour, 45 min tops. Coop informs me that he won the bet, Seth informs me that I owe him $20.
2230: Leave gas station near Ben's house with fresh NOS, properly inflated trailer tires, and a load of (now intoxicated) plane arrivals.

[Sharpe]

Uploading pics and vids now. Will take awhile, I have about 3GB worth.

[davido]

Trip was awesome! I rolled into the vacation house about 5AM.

[JB]

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

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Meaning the scenery/weather/trails are incredible? Have you never been in the summer before? I am already planning my trip in September.

[FJAggie07]

I will be up there third week in August. Just the dogs, wife, jeep, and trailer. I can't wait.

[DRAGOONRANCH]

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 "midget" 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 (the first time I have ever seen anyone be strapped TO the trail )
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 aroundn (after backing down to an old abandonded log cabin, then gets to the boulder garden at the entrance and has to winch the bald dude w/ broken Cherokee 'down' the garden to unplug the trail)
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 (Banjo's are heard in the distance, yet Krebs takes off anyways...)
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

updated it a bit.

[davido]

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/ohendals...Lu9zcjH2_HPbA#

[J Cooper]

my pics

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

click full screen and they come out pretty good.

[Sharpe]

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/q...Colorado%2009/

[Doug Krebs]

Here is the route we took up

Here is the way home...

When I get my laptop and green bag back I'll post pictures and get the final costs. If anyone bought water (ed) or something else the group needed let me know and I'll add those in.

I had a great time. All seems like a blur to me. Everything worked out great in the end.

Would be awesome to make this a yearly trip somehow, but maybe later in the summer? There is so much to do there that there is something for everyone.

[jerryg79]

I would definitely go back, but I would probably take the whole week from fri to the next sunday, and incorporate a couple of days to relax and fork off.

[Doug Krebs]

I would definitely go back, but I would probably take the whole week from fri to the next sunday, and incorporate a couple of days to relax and fork off.

We'll that or hire a caterer!

[DRAGOONRANCH]

I would definitely go back, but I would probably take the whole week from fri to the next sunday, and incorporate a couple of days to relax and fork off.

x2

We'll that or hire a caterer!

[cox]Well that,[/cox]