Great pics, Rob... it already feels like a year since I've been there. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> You brought back some good memories! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />

It always amazes me how poorly the camera can capture the dimension of these things... stuff like Dan sideways on Double Whammy just doesn't appear all that difficult in two dimensions, but DANG, I have been puckered when I've been on it!

Speaking of DW, who made it up? Rob, I reckon your wheelbase and build should have helped you scoot right up, right?

The Helldorado pix were especially fun -- wish I coulda been there to see in person, but I had too much to juggle that day... Besides, I won't even drive that canyon <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/baby.gif" alt="" /> until I figure out a way to fold down the windshield or come up with some A-pillar skid-plating... that undercut wall on the left and slick slop on the right just sucks you in -- as I noted from the bodywork on the trucks in camp. A few years back, I saw a fella in an Early Bronco run that clean, with a hard top(!) -- but he was a local, and ran that whole dang canyon top-to-bottom in about 30 minutes, with another vehicle. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/ignore.gif" alt="" /> The 'Bronco Line' was to back out darn near into the overhang and drop the front right tire in the crack to the right of where the guy is standing in this pic:

...and use that to pivot/push the front end uphill and to the right. He didn't use the right wheel for motivation, really, it was more of an anchor to prevent the front from getting sucked down and to the left, where gravity wants to take it. Dunno if you could take that line with the front pumpkin on the passenger side!

Actually, of more interest (less guaranteed) to me was the entry rock -- what line did Fernando take on that? Looks like you started more to the right, Rob, and tried a few different lines...

Looking at the fuel costs slide was sobering, tho! Good thing you were heading east, towards cheaper gas... if you'd come out west, the expense might have been damn near the same, with half the miles. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

How many more days until IX?

Randii