We are back...
Most people are alive and some vehicles are still in one piece.
One lady disappeared in the night and she really got everybody scared. After half an hour of frantic search she was found innocently sleeping under the stars in the desert.
I broke my shock mount. It will be welded back soon.
My ABS light got on. After I washed the vehicle, it is off again. I actually like it more without the ABS. I suppose that I have to wash it less.
I used a very bad judgment when I took our sub-group toward Scotty's castle on Saturday and then again through the Steep Pass. We consumed all the gas along the way. We better had to join Bruno and Ray in their discovery trip around the Hunter mountains (much shorter one).
We had to skip the Sunday events and go directly to Big Pine on the shortest and easiest road (still about 40 miles of awful washboard and 15 more highway miles).
Our sub-group got to the Big Pine in Sunday on the very last fumes of gas. My computer got stuck on reading "1 mile to empty" for many miles. The programmers probably did not anticipate that somebody may drive SUV on readings "0 miles to empty", "-1 mile to empty", "-2 mile to empty" and so on. The 1.5 gallon of gas that I got from Nissan guys definitely saved me. When you share the gas in the middle of desert, this is almost like sharing the last bread or last drop of water.
The most bizarre situation was when the rented Ford Explorer with car-like stock street tires had to pull the FJ Cruiser with over-sized off-road tires over the rock stairs.
Thanks everybody.
Oleg
Axiom 4WD 2004: OME shocks, 32" BFG Mudders, RockSliderz, OME929+2" spacers, Stinkyfab bent RE rear links, front ARB locker, rear No-Slip locker, DOR front axle lowering kit, custom middle section skid plate, IronMan torsion bars.
Deceased Rodeo'02 4WD.
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