Off Road Adventure

After a night in Sacramento, CA. it was time to get started and that meant driving out to the trail head.  This had to be the longest drive ever… Although it only took an hour or so, it seemed like days as we wound past places named Coloma, Georgetown, Placerville,  and Ice House up through the last steep twisting bit of road. This was really it…

Rolling into Loon Lake, the jump off point for our Rubicon 4×4 adventure we met up with the last of our group, Frank and Tim.  Frank drove in from Colorado in his Voodoo Blue sporting a roof top Shangri-La and outfitted for bear.

When frank got the invite from Mark, he immediately called Tim who hails from Sacramento.  As a local, Tim knows the trail and provides us with an extra set of eyes for spotting through the big rocks.  There are a lot of big rocks and tight spaces on the Rubicon.

Both Frank and Tim are the kind of easy going guys you want to hang out with and that is good since all of us were going to be spending the next two days together on the Con.  Now the group was complete.  Seven guys, five FJ Cruisers and one 80 series as transportation for Yoshi’s family over the trail and provide support just in case the trail extracts a toll for our passage.

The Annual Metal Tech Invitational was shaping up to be everything we could hope for…  We were heading off on one of the most famous trails in the world with a great group of guys.  Who could ask for more.

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