TRIP REPORT continued:

James from the Hollister Hills SVRA did a great job of organizing this event, and received an impressive turnout of people to help clean up the Upper Ranch. In addition to our group from 4x4Wire there were numerous members of MTA (Mountain Transit Authority, a Toyota club in the Bay Area), FJCruiserForums.com, Pirate4x4, and more.
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Special mention: The tri tip was excellent! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Leaf springs (an entire set), axles, grills, tires, and an assortment of metal was collected along with cans, cigarette butts, broken glass and more.

Morning meetup --


Getting to work --


Good progress --


Bruno and Christine --


Taking a minute to discuss tires :-)


Nice size heap


Impressive turnout


Part of our group


Lots of FJ Cruisers!


Nice!


After the morning work and then a large satisfying lunch, we headed back into the park for some wheeling.

More photos to come...

TRIP REPORT continued:

View from the top, unfortunately where a lot of trash collects --


Not a very good shot, but heck I'm going to post it just because it's "truck hill" --


More shots --













A shot from earlier in the day, where someone's strapping a rusted 10 foot pole to their roof rack --


Say "cheese" --


Mud pit, which to my knowledge no one made it through that day, though we had just missed the action where someone made the attempt from both ends and failed each time --
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Sweet!
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We'll definitely be on the lookout for future events like this.

Please pack it out you guys. Tread lightly and keep the trails clean!
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<img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" /> You threw away a piece of Jeep and labeled it "nice size heap". Funny! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />

No it was the real thing. We all had a good laugh. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />

Thanks Joanna, for the pic's. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />

That is Great news.

I am happy that i posted this for you guys to enjoy! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />

and I am glad You had an Excellent time. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Maybe next run i can go to show you all my Truck. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Yes GWS, it is true, a thanks goes to you for posting the event, so thank you. Though in my post I did mean to say that the "tri tip" was excellent, not the "trip tip", oops, my bad, it has been edited.
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Great cleanup effort there guys; good show!!!!

...a few more photos for your viewing pleasure. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Great pictures everyone! Thanks for documenting it.

So Chief, has Christine spoken about getting a 4x4 after Saturday LOL?

BTW, I'm looking at doing my annual hangover avoidance run again. Let me know who can go and where you are. Since the 1st is on a Friday I was thinking of doing a Friday, Saturday, & Sunday trip this time. Not sure where yet though. Maybe Cow Mountain (depending on funds LOL) since it's a 3 day trip.

I'll post up a new thread for this later today. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />

Of course. I don't have a crystal ball, but if I did, I'm sure I'd see a 4X4 in her future. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />