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 Remember our Rubicon 4×4 Adventure, the “2009 Metal Tech Invitational”? I know you do… Cause I don’t want to hear we do all this for nothing… Ok maybe not for nothing… We do have a blast! Well one of the members of the team on that off road adventure was Yoshi, a photographer and writer for Japanese Land Cruiser Magazine. Yoshi’s pictures and story hit news stands in Japan and sure enough Hula Betty . . . → Read More: We’re Big In Japan  3 comments - (Comments are closed)  2009 Rubicon Adventure  FJ cruiser, fjc, japanese land cruiser, magazine article, metal tech invitational, rubicon, toyota We came, We saw, We Kick Some Off Road Ass… If you follow our off road adventure and please tell me you do, than you know we recently returned from the Rubicon trail. And I’m sure you read the stories and saw the pictures… Right! So if a picture is worth a 1,000 words, than video must be priceless. Well here are four (yes count them four) videos that will give you a . . . → Read More: Veni, vidi, vici 2 comments - (Comments are closed) 2009 Rubicon Adventure 4x4 adventure video, FJ cruiser, fjc, off road adventure video, rubicon So you want to run the Rubicon Trail… And who wouldn’t… But what does it mean to survive the Con? For us it meant two long hard days on the trail with some of the most beautiful scenery in the world. It also meant a little carnage, a lot of fun and an experience we’ll never forget. One thing to remember about running the Rubicon is that the trail is one rig wide most . . . → Read More: Surviving Rubicon… Out The Other End 2 comments - (Comments are closed) 2009 Rubicon Adventure 4x4 adventure, metal tech invitational, off road adventure info, Rubicon Trail, trail run, wheeling  100 yards into the trail and we’re breaking out the hi-lifts… Welcome to the Con! We’d heard tales, read about it on-line and seen pictures… But until you are facing down the Rubicon, it is hard to understand the knot that wells up in your stomach as you realize… this is wheeling… on the big stuff. Until now most of the trails we run have their obligatory little rock garden you can play on or . . . → Read More: Oh My Hell… This Is Rubicon! 6 comments - (Comments are closed) 2009 Rubicon Adventure 4x4 adventure, FJ cruiser, off road adventure info, Rubicon Trail 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 . . . → Read More: It All Begins At Loon Lake Today was the day the gang (or at least most of them) came into town. Bernd is joining the group from Portland along with his son. I met Bernd a couple of years back in Ouray, Co. at the second annual FJ Summit. Since then I’ve had a few opportunities to run trails with him including a night of wheel down at Browns Camp. I always like letting Bernd go first. I know he . . . → Read More: The Gang Is Mostly Here 2 comments - (Comments are closed) 2009 Rubicon Adventure 4x4, FJ cruiser, metal tech, off road adventure info, rubicon, Rubicon Trail Like a kid on Christmas Eve, I slept about an hour, double and triple checking my mental list of gear for the big Rubicon off road adventure. As soon as the clock ticked 9:00 a.m. i was out the door and racing to Metal Tech to meet Mark and caravan down from Portland to Sacramento. View Larger Map Well the plan was to leave… and you . . . → Read More: I-5 All The Way… |
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