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Getting Back In The Saddle

June 6th, 2010 · No Comments · 2010 Olympic Loop

2009 was incredible for 4×4 off road adventures… Tahuya OVR Park,  Bill Burke training, Tillamook State Forest and of course the Rubicon Trail.   It wasn’t so good for economic adventures.  Without much work we had lots of time to hit the 4×4 trails…  A little too much time.  Fast forward to today, 2010 and economic [...]

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Surviving Rubicon… Out The Other End

October 5th, 2009 · 2 Comments · 2009 Rubicon Adventure

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 [...]

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Oh My Hell… This Is Rubicon!

October 2nd, 2009 · 6 Comments · 2009 Rubicon Adventure

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.
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Whooo Hooo! Blue Bunny on the CON!

September 5th, 2009 · 4 Comments · 2009 Rubicon Adventure

That was the the message I received back after I let Mark (those of you who remember the tail of the Blue Bunny understand Mark’s affection for the nick name) know I would be able to join him on Metal Tech ’s Rubicon Trail adventure planned for the end of summer.
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The CPR Run To Blue Lake

August 26th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Trail Runs

I drove the legend that started it all…  more on that in a minute, but first…
Picture yourself in the middle of nowhere, cell coverage is non-existent, the stars are beginning to poke through the night sky and your group is settling in for an evening around the camp fire when across the way you hear [...]

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