During the week of April fifteenth, 2007, about 40 Jeepers received collectively as soon as once more to benefit from the trails in Moab, Utah and go to with buddies. For a few of us, it was the 7th straight 12 months we’ve joined our buddies in Moab. For others, it was their first however hopefully not their final journey to Moab.
Dome and Detour helped preserve observe of who was coming and had been this 12 months’s flag makers. They did an important job in each departments! Thanks guys! The flags withstood the freeway check on a number of events and held collectively. Nice design too…..the expertise in that household is fairly good to say the least (flag proven on a later web page).
I wish to take this chance to thank the distributors and producers who donated door prizes for this 12 months’s giveaway. Your assist is appreciated by all of us. For these people that haven’t attended one among our Moab runs, we often have a pot luck dinner on Wednesday night. This 12 months, despite the 50 MPH wind gusts, all of us received collectively for a barely modified potluck…..a tail gate potluck get together. Since we had been fairly positive the meals wouldn’t keep on the picnic tables with the prevailing winds, we put a few rows of Jeeps collectively, tail gate to tail gate, and folk strolled up and down the row grazing on what ever meals was sitting behind the Jeep. It labored out fairly nicely. Afterward the meals fest, we had the drawing for the prizes.
Here, in alphabetical order, are the names of these firms and people that contributed prizes for this 12 months. Again, a BIG thanks goes out to you to your assist.
Applied Innovative Technologies
Donna Olson
Steve Szanto (Chili’s)
I believed a number of grazing pics could also be relevant proper about now. I do know that a few of my meals had a barely gritty texture…..often proper after a type of excessive velocity wind gusts that introduced a lot of the highest soil that was within the close by car parking zone space.
One advantage of getting a bunch of Jeepers along with a complete lot of meals….everybody enjoys the meal and Jeep is the one subject of dialog. How can you’ve gotten a greater time than that?
I believe we had extra meals this 12 months than in previous years, which was good. We had some fairly wholesome appetites as a few of us had spent a goodly period of time on the path earlier that day.
I don’t recall what was behind the pickup truck (tow car) however what ever it was, there have been a number of people considering it.
And after all, concerning the time you simply loaded up a giant scoop of potato salad, a type of hurricane pressure gusts would blow in a pair cubic yards of Moab sand and grime. The rooster fingers I used to be consuming simply didn’t style the identical after the third or 4th one among these blew threw. But the way in which I have a look at it, if we are able to get a rolled TJ off of a tough path, what’s slightly grit in your dinner, proper?
7th Annual JeepsLimitless Moab Run
The flags for this 12 months got here to us compliments of Tim and Steve…..they introduced all of them the way in which down from Washington state. There is a narrative behind them……a type of conditions Tim wasn’t positive if we had been going to have the flags or not. But all of it labored out simply high quality and I for one actually just like the design. Although I’m not 100% sure, I believe the concept got here from slightly man driving a TJ throughout Table Top Mesa from a number of years in the past. He was fairly the wheeler.
This little fella joined Donna and myself at Moab. His title is Smokey however I often name him Man Dog. He is the newest addition to our family. In February, Donna discovered this little 7 week previous pup within the church car parking zone in poor bodily situation. Intestinal parasites, pores and skin fungus on about 20 % of his physique, malnutrition, and many others….and the skin temps had been dipping beneath 30 levels at the moment. At 5 months, he now’s a really wholesome 25 kilos and able to tackle something Moab has to supply. The first couple of days within the Jeep had been type of robust (movement illness) however by week’s finish, it wasn’t phasing him a bit. He had his sea legs and was up for the problem.
Hey….test it out. I’m not main this run! (I truly dodged that bullet a number of occasions this 12 months.) At the top is Tom, main us into Eagle’s Dare, an superior path that has an insanely steep (and lengthy) slick rock climb. I met Tom (and Clyde and Roy) at Troy’s earlier this 12 months when Clyde was arranging to get some work achieved on his Jeep. We stored in contact and once I received to Moab, Tom and the blokes had been sort sufficient to take us on a few trails, Eagle’s Dare, Pickle, and Mash Potatoes. All of us beloved the knew trails and I stay up for returning the favor later this 12 months after they come right down to the Phoenix space for some winter wheelin’.
Although I’ve missed one or two alternatives, I all the time get pleasure from going to the highest of Moab Rim and wheelin’ again to the sand hill for lunch with my buddies. This 12 months, nearly everybody in Wednesday’s group had by no means been as much as the rim….and a few of these people have been coming to the JU runs for fairly a number of years. So we crawled our approach to the highest of Moab Rim for some good previous enjoyable. Here is a photograph of us coming down. I had spotter responsibility…..that was high quality with me. Rolling up right here simply isn’t enjoyable and I didn’t wish to be late for the pot luck dinner both!
If reminiscence serves me appropriately, this was referred to as Bashful Crack. It was close to the tip of Mash Potatoes. Tom noticed me via it and afterwards, I returned the favor. Lots of alternative to flex the suspension a bit. A misplaced tire might end in some physique injury.
A view from the lookout at Top of the World path. The final time I used to be right here, we drove up in a light-weight snow storm. We had a number of rain sprinkles this time and caught a little bit of sleet additional down the mountain on the way in which again to the freeway.
7th Annual JeepsLimitless Moab Run
This was taken about two-thirds of the way in which coming down Moab Rim. Yes, there’s a car parking zone down there subsequent to the street. This path provides you a birds eye view of the Colorado flowing by.
I work on attending to the highest of one of many waterfalls on Pickle. Tom took us on this path and I felt very a lot at house because it was very similar to these we run right here in central Arizona
Here is one among our group on the high of the identical waterfall as proven within the earlier photograph. A few rocks on the backside helped make the stretch to the highest. The rock on the passenger facet managed to catch a few entrance fenders….should you weren’t far sufficient over to the driving force’s facet earlier than beginning the assault to the highest.
An straightforward part of Flat Iron Mesa path. Smokey loved this path fairly a bit primarily based on the period of time he spent sleeping behind the TJ. He would roll round as I went up and over the rocks and ledges…..didn’t appear to thoughts a bit.
Donna took a number of natural world pictures throughout the journey. Most doubtless it is a fairly weed of some kind….however none the much less, it makes the considerably bleak panorama a bit extra colourful.
A view from the sting of the canyon as seen from the Flat Iron Mesa path. About 8 of us ran this on Friday, our final day in Moab. Donna and I hadn’t been on this path earlier than. It is rated in the direction of the underside of the tough part within the Well’s e-book. It was path for the final day in Moab given we needed to drive our TJ house the subsequent day…..breaking one thing the day earlier than heading for house is the rationale we often hit the tougher trails early within the week.
I hope you loved these pics from 7AJUMR. Many due to all of our buddies for serving to make such nice reminiscences. We stay up for subsequent 12 months and the possibility to see you all once more!
