Colorado Fall Color Tours 2016! - Event Date: 18 Sep. 2016 - 24 Sep. 2016 |
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jeephawk
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Rhonda and I also would like to thank Mike and Nancy for putting on such a great jeeping experience. Everyone there was very cordial and helpful for some rookies on the Tour. Sorry our week was cut short, but life happens. Already looking forward to a full week of jeeping fun next year with our gold 3b😀 and new friends. Amazing amount of Willys knowledge on display from multiple sources . Great time on all fronts. Thanks to all.
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Unkamonkey
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It looks like everybody had a great time and I should have been there.
It looks like jpet in a photo is under his Jeep fixing something. I know there are no shots of me under the hood of my 3B working on something... At least his hood wasn't up. I talked to a friend in the Vail Valley and he said that the weather sucked there yesterday as well. Nice today so people should have a nice drive home. Monkey |
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smfulle
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Joe IA
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As some of you are aware Kate and I made a hasty departure on Thursday afternoon when we got the news that flooding in our area was going to be serious. We arrived home about suppertime on Friday, about an hour before they closed the roads leading to our neighborhood. The crest was a little lower than expected but our road was still used extensively for a boat ramp. We came 4 houses from owning lakefront property, it's good to live on high ground. The water is beginning to recede slowly now and a lot of cleanup is starting.
I just wanted to thank Mike and Nancy and all of the other great Willys people we meet at these events. You are all a friendly, helpful bunch of people. I hope to see you guys again in the future. Joe
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Tiny
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Thanks Mike and Nancy for everything, it was a great time. I can't thank everyone that helped with my jeep enough. Next time I hope to have it right. Mike I will get a package together to bring down to you in the future. Tiny
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Unkamonkey
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I looks like everybody had a good time. I just had to deal with, as it turned out to be 6 dogs, one of them skunked up.
Thanks for the pictures.
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Lee MN
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Winchester makes a solution for the problem! Lee |
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Unkamonkey
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There was a bit of a social squabble going on this evening and I had to call 911 twice . The third time I have ever had to do it. The screaming match went on for over an hour. I made the first call in when I heard a childs voice in the background. 3 policemen called to me from the dark of my neighbors yard. "Don't worry, I'm not packing" was my reply. So we talked. I'm not going to screw with them and they seemed to give the respect back even though I told them about the .45 in the house. (I didn't tell them about the other 21 guns). It is about 15 feet away so it wasn't even a question about who would come out ahead. It isn't even loaded and nothing in the magazine.
I best stop, I seem to have sent this thread off of the rails enough.
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Corawithcamera
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Thank you Mike and Nancy and all who helped plan and lead and participated in the Fall Colors Tour. We enjoyed it incredibly!
I am trying to load all my photos at the following site: https://goo.gl/photos/YWBBjKRKs5yQK5xf7 ( they are still loading so if they do not all come up yet just keep reloading.) Just happened to come up with this photo of Ragan Simpich dressed for his part as an extra in The Incident Movie starring Walter Matthau. The jeep is one he restored in the 1980 era. The jeep got paid more than he did in the movie. |
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Unkamonkey
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I'm sorry about my diversion to this thread but sometimes my mind gets onto something and I don't know where to sent it. It has a lack of adventure so it needs to find a home.
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Corawithcamera
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Enjoying all your videos. Below is link to your jeep photo on Iron Chest Met.
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jpet
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Great photos Cora! .... and welcome to the forum!
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Oilleaker1
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As I sit here thinking of the wonderful time Carol and I had, I see Mike sitting at his laptop in the lower community gathering center, having a cup of hot coffee. Thank You and Nancy for having us!!!!! The family of Jeepers is one of the best bunch of tallent and just good people I've ever had the priveledge to participate with. Simply the best. I thought I'd seen it all. Nope!!!!! The ride up Mount Antero was the highest, wildest ride I think I'll ever experience. Not rock crawling, but close. Watching the 40-50 MPH clouds blast past and looking down 100's of feet to the road you just traversed on was simply awesome. Reminded me of Mount Everest climbers only in a old flat fender. Ron, our guide, was a constant comfort with his descrition of what to expect and his front recon to keep us safe. Thanks Ron! I've done 3 FCT and this was simply the best. I don't think you could improve on it Mike! I look forward to more "Family Reunions" with you all and as Jpet says: I'm at your service! Oilleaker , over and out!
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Green Disease, Jeeps, Old Iron!
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stude-a-willys
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Sincere thanks to Mike, Nancy, and everyone in the community that make the 2016 fall flatty color tour an enjoyable, challenging, and beautiful vacation. All of the photo/video documentation will keep me smiling during the upcoming "Jeep building season." I'll give the fall color tour 3 thumbs up (sometimes I'm all thumbs!)
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smfulle
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A few more photos from the Qwaaazy 8's run on Grizzly Lake Trail. I've put some of these photos in a long composite video that I'm uploading to youtube right now, but it's long enough that a lot ofyou won't want to watch it. Here's the photos.
Here' we all are lined up at the end of the run to come down the gatekeeper obstacle. Grampa's Jeep posing in front of an old cabin we passed. Probably a utility shed rather than a home, because the whole front side is open. No regular door. All six jeeps posing near the lake at the top. A gimps of Grizzly Lake through the trees. Rick G contemplating dropping off the edge of the gatekeeper obstacle. |
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smfulle
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Driving home to Northern Utah I went up highway 24 through Leadville, then over the pass to Minturn where I caught I 70 west. This is a pretty spectacular drive. I-70 is pretty great too. There was a little lake on the way to Minturn that looked cool so I took a couple of pictures there.
Turned around and took this shot from the same spot. |
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smfulle
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Ok the video finally uploaded. This is a composite video mostly taken using a GoPro camera clamped onto my folded down windshield along with few clips taken with my Galaxy phone. I had almost 2 hours of video that I cut down to 24 minutes. It seems that I am having more and more problems cutting stuff out. It was all so fun to me that I want to remember it all. I hope at least a few of you will enjoy it as well.
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Fred Coldwell
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Many Thanks !
to Mike and Nancy for organizing and hosting this wonderful flatfender
jeeping event. Every year it gets better and better. It's always to joy
to see old friends again and meet new friends on the trail, at the
Thirsty Dirt Ranch base camp and in Buena Vista over drinks and at
dinner.
For something freezingly different, here are some photos from Saturday's trip up Mount Antero: The above photo shows we encountered snow while still in the trees on the lower portion of the trail. Once we cleared tree line we found more light snow settled on the trail. Here we are on the frosty junction near the top of Mt. Antero. The wind gusted strongly at times, driving home the 20's temperature and causing us to bundle up tighter. To be continued . . . |
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Happy Jeep Trails,
Fred Coldwell Denver, CO 1944 CJ2-09 - X-33 1945 CJ2-26 - X-50 |
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