Colorado Fall Color Tours 2018!! - Event Date: 17 Sep. 2018 - 22 Sep. 2018

FCT won't be the same without ya, Rick!  (I hope to make it this year, unlike last year.  No dogs have tried to kill me this year... yet... knock on wood...) 

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Rick, I even had a song about Idaho ready for you at BHR but mother nature decided to rain on our parade. Guess it will keep until next year. Any chance 6 cold Shiners will change your mind? Since I will be at the TDR early I can arrange to have you a prime camping spot ( I know the owner )!!!!!

Edited by tumbleweed - 03 Aug. 2018 at 12:26pm

OffroadDave, Glad you'll be able to spend the week with us.  You'll get more Jeeping in that way.  And yes, EFI is nice.  Although I've still got a few bugs to work out.  But it got me to clean out my gas tank.  Cleanest it's been in 40 years.

bretto wrote: If you change your mind Rick, as always, we'll leave a light on for ya! Brett

Well, OK, maybe just one photo of the 184 road north of Turret.  Nancy took this photo as we passed through one of the aspen stands that line the road.   As you can see, the road is not all rough and rugged, some of it is very enjoyable to drive. 

Cool Mike!  Such rough duty hunting new trails.  Thanks for the hard work!

Thanks Lew, looking forward to seeing you and Frankie again.  Really anxious to get the one barrel to make a smoker out of it.  Depending on when you get up to TDR, I may get to work on it evenings during the FCT.  

One of the reasons I don't like to lead is when we are doing a trail like Holy Cross City people all run out of the woods and stop me so we can talk about the beast I am driving. I don't like to hold up the people behind me especially if it is a steep section of hill and they have to sit there standing on the brakes. There are some advantages. We did the Top of the World road and I had driven it several times so it was not that difficult except it was the week after the EJS and some of the lines were so dug out I had to find a new line. I found a line nobody else could see and I did fine. Pull up the hill far enough for the others to have a decent place to park and go back down to pile rocks for those that needed aid. We were at the top so I did the required picture, threw a rock over the cliff, looked at the flowers, ate a sammitch and I am ready to head down the other side of the circular road. Mike and his wife jumped in their CJ7 and Ron and his wife got in whatever type of Jeep they had. I did drag my rear springs and rear crossmember. It was downhill so I just slid down the ledges. Mike was set up with elockers so he also drug a few parts and Ron had never done much off road so he just did what Mike did and he did fine until we had to stack rocks for him. Alright I had pulled up far enough to leave room for all of the others so I walked back down and sat on a rock looking at a nice emerald green lizard. I sat there for around a half of an hour and finally Bob and Ralph show up and Bob jumps out of his CJ5 hopping mad that we drove off and left them and he got stuck coming down the hill and Ralph got stuck too. Mike calmly asked him how he got stuck in a Jeep with F&R elockers and a winch and Ralph was driving a Rubicon. Everybody else made it down with minimal problems. Bob finally stopped hopping about as I think he figured out that we had no sympathy for him. He got stuck because of the Bourbon and colas he was working on and Ralph had been working on some IPAs. A friend named Glenn usually rides with me and he feels that he has to jump out and spot me. I ignore him and drive the line I had picked out about 100 feet back. He walks down the hill and I hit a smooth spot and I accelerate so Glenn has to sprint to get back in the Jeep. He turns around and gets a beer out, it is fine with me. I don't drive a Jeep with any alcohol. First off it is not safe and if you have a beer open it just foams over.
That's my tale for tonight.