Serious Explorations 10th Anniversary Run

slravene · 08-19-2005, 08:35 PM

is it rocky? are those scrapes from rocks and such... Im gonna herculine my rockers you think that would help? Sliders MIGHT be done by then

kelly2 · 08-19-2005, 08:54 PM

if i'm still stateside next year, i could do colorado or indiana

SplashMan · 08-19-2005, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by kelly2

if i'm still stateside next year, i could do colorado or indiana

Badlands is built around an old gravel pit, it has a little bit of everything... check my webshots link for some pics.

CodePoet · 08-19-2005, 09:50 PM

she splashman said....it's really varied

GJarrett · 08-19-2005, 10:03 PM

Gajeep, I attended the Dixie Run at Tellico a couple of years ago and met a lot of people from SouthernJeeps and was very impressed with the club and the quality of its members.

If we did do a run at Tellico, what did you have in mind for the mild/stocker group? - especially if it is wet, lol.

Whether or not Tellico works out for this event, we still need to go out there again and have a local run there

I'm torn between planning for one big central run, or having two separate ones for each coast - a large central group would be fantastic, but I see the problem of distance for many (especially if gas prices stay high). I'm glad I'm not Rick

Brian_B · 08-19-2005, 10:04 PM

Still not voting, but I just looked up attica, IN. Its not as far as I thought (from me). Just over 500 miles. With gas like it is it would take less than $80 for the trip, plus food and a place to stay, or course.

Who knows what gas will be by then though. Do I hear $6 a gallon? Lets hope not.

slravene · 08-19-2005, 10:45 PM

well going along with what gerald said...IF we stage the run in the NC/VA/TN area, i would vote for Uhwarrie...sure its not a moab, or an attica, but its got trails that everyone can run and have a good time. Tellico will deter the stockers and semi's like myself from attending. Uhwarrie however has trails that are plenty hard enough to spend a day on, and it also has the easier trails for the little guys, with everything in between. Just a thought...

Brian_B · 08-19-2005, 10:47 PM

Where is Uhwarrie? Sorry, I have heard the name, but have no clue.

*RJDriver* · 08-19-2005, 10:49 PM

Why not have two ???? One east of the Mississippi and one to the west ???

slravene · 08-19-2005, 11:01 PM

its in Troy, NC; kinda middle/southern NC

slravene · 08-19-2005, 11:01 PM

there are a few pictures of it in my registry, only a few though.

Brian_B · 08-19-2005, 11:02 PM

Ahh...15 hours or more from here.

Thats why I didn't know.

nissanboy · 08-19-2005, 11:04 PM

Uwharrie is broing with big groups...

rick i think Gilmer Tx is a good location still. Nice even distance from everywhere.

slravene · 08-19-2005, 11:05 PM

its a good trail. i think only like 16 miles of trails, but they can be run either way and there are quite a few playgrounds; quite plenty to keep a group busy for a day or two.

*RockRanger* · 08-20-2005, 12:49 AM

I have decided. I voted for colorado. I will be going to truckhaven a few times this winter anyway. So if it isnt a big group so be it. It just means we can find the real fun stuff

I am going to plan on going to the moab run next spring, if the 10th aniversery run is back east.

I'll hit rick up for a weekend of private tours of the pheonix trails on an off weekend.

I will get to do a bunch of wheeling and have a bunch of fun anyway. Hopefully in the process Ill get to meet a few new members of this site.

Now I have another question for the east coasters. How come up until now you havent tried to plan big runs on this site? I know RRORC and TRS seem to have alot of eastern members and they have had big runs, so do most of you attend those and call it good or are they truely a seperate group of east coasters and you guys here are a bunch of web wheelers?

**Burns** · 08-20-2005, 01:33 AM

well ive been doing a lot of reading and everyone has some good ideas but i would love to go but i dont know where all the talk is getting. can anyone update me on this. i would love to be invloved in this run.

*dman726749* · 08-20-2005, 09:47 AM

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Originally Posted by RockRanger

Now I have another question for the east coasters. How come up until now you havent tried to plan big runs on this site? I know RRORC and TRS seem to have alot of eastern members and they have had big runs, so do most of you attend those and call it good or are they truely a seperate group of east coasters and you guys here are a bunch of web wheelers?

as a midwesterner and a member of rrorc i will take this one

it seems all the people out this way that are on this board taht are truely interested in wheeling are either members at rrorc or trs too, so cross posting usually only brings in a couple of other people. I have tried to plan a couple badlands trips through this site and never got any more than 3 explorers to show up, and at the rrorc run last month we had 40ish rigs there for a 4 day event.

If you have it, they will come

yob_yeknom · 08-20-2005, 11:26 AM

I voted Moab because I could fly there and join in for the ride along program.
If it ends up in Indiana, I might could make it and just bring my own truck.

Dopler174 · 08-20-2005, 01:20 PM

This is ridiculous. SLRAVENE, I have never been to Uwharrie. I would love to go. Sense we live no more than about an hour away, why don't you and I go there and try to get as many to come as possible. We could have a great weekend there and drive home Sunday. I have a brother that drowned his Toyota there and I'm sure that he would go again so that would make three. I have another friend with a Bronco that hasn't been there either and I could get him to go. Plus a few other friends that I could invite. So there is a few.

nissanboy · 08-20-2005, 02:02 PM

Dopler pay attention there is a run planned already for setpember 3rd, another the last weekend in OCtober... the east coasters wheel we just dont have as many trails to play on as the western guys do so we always end up making long road trips to wheel. I honestly dont care where it is cause i will be there no matter what. I would prefer not to have to go all they way across the country though.

View Poll Results: Where should our 10th Anniversary run be held?
Truck Haven Southern California	44	21.57%
Moab Utah	33	16.18%
Phoenix Area Trails	14	6.86%
Colorado Trails	43	21.08%
Badlands Attica Indiana	70	34.31%
Voters: 204. You may not vote on this poll

08-19-2005, 08:35 PM	#181
slravene Wannabe Elite Explorer Charlotte, NC (Home) / Raleigh, NC (School) '95 XLT Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 1,657 Vehicle Specs	is it rocky? are those scrapes from rocks and such... Im gonna herculine my rockers you think that would help? Sliders MIGHT be done by then __________________ 95 XLT 4x4 / 4.5" / 33x12.5 BFG ATs / 15x8 / Locked CRS Buggy / SOLID HP60s / MAXXIS Trepadors -- Lee R.

08-19-2005, 08:54 PM	#182
kelly2 Wannabe Elite Explorer Kansas City, Mo '97 XLT Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 499 Vehicle Specs	if i'm still stateside next year, i could do colorado or indiana __________________ 1997 XLT 4x4, 3" BL, WAR 153, 31"x10.5" Goodyear Wrangler A/TS -- SOLD Free advice is worth the price you pay.

08-19-2005, 09:50 PM	#184
CodePoet Wannabe Elite Explorer Indianapolis, Indiana 1993 XLT Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 2,415 Vehicle Specs	she splashman said....it's really varied __________________ RAINBOW DASH!!!!!!!!!!!

08-19-2005, 10:03 PM	#185
GJarrett Moderator Emeritus Chief GPS'um and Still Lost Native Texan '99 EB 4x4 Join Date: Feb 1999 Posts: 7,163 Vehicle Specs	Gajeep, I attended the Dixie Run at Tellico a couple of years ago and met a lot of people from SouthernJeeps and was very impressed with the club and the quality of its members. If we did do a run at Tellico, what did you have in mind for the mild/stocker group? - especially if it is wet, lol. Whether or not Tellico works out for this event, we still need to go out there again and have a local run there I'm torn between planning for one big central run, or having two separate ones for each coast - a large central group would be fantastic, but I see the problem of distance for many (especially if gas prices stay high). I'm glad I'm not Rick __________________ Ol' Krusty "Nerves of Steel; Brain of Chipmunk" Gerald's Truck The best things in life........ aren't things. God's aim looks like He's missing the mark because we're too nearsighted to see what He is aiming at.

08-19-2005, 10:04 PM	#186
Brian_B Wannabe Elite Explorer Mountain Home, AR 2000 mounty / 56 f-100 Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2,305 Vehicle Specs	Still not voting, but I just looked up attica, IN. Its not as far as I thought (from me). Just over 500 miles. With gas like it is it would take less than $80 for the trip, plus food and a place to stay, or course. Who knows what gas will be by then though. Do I hear $6 a gallon? Lets hope not. __________________ 56 f-100, short bed, 272 "Y" block V8, 3 speed standard, 3.73 rear gears. Oh...I have a 2000 mountaineer as well.

08-19-2005, 10:45 PM	#187
slravene Wannabe Elite Explorer Charlotte, NC (Home) / Raleigh, NC (School) '95 XLT Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 1,657 Vehicle Specs	well going along with what gerald said...IF we stage the run in the NC/VA/TN area, i would vote for Uhwarrie...sure its not a moab, or an attica, but its got trails that everyone can run and have a good time. Tellico will deter the stockers and semi's like myself from attending. Uhwarrie however has trails that are plenty hard enough to spend a day on, and it also has the easier trails for the little guys, with everything in between. Just a thought... __________________ 95 XLT 4x4 / 4.5" / 33x12.5 BFG ATs / 15x8 / Locked CRS Buggy / SOLID HP60s / MAXXIS Trepadors -- Lee R.

08-19-2005, 10:47 PM	#188
Brian_B Wannabe Elite Explorer Mountain Home, AR 2000 mounty / 56 f-100 Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2,305 Vehicle Specs	Where is Uhwarrie? Sorry, I have heard the name, but have no clue. __________________ 56 f-100, short bed, 272 "Y" block V8, 3 speed standard, 3.73 rear gears. Oh...I have a 2000 mountaineer as well.

08-19-2005, 10:49 PM	#189
RJDriver Wannabe Elite Explorer CAKron, OH '01 Sport Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 107 Vehicle Specs	Why not have two ???? One east of the Mississippi and one to the west ???

08-19-2005, 11:01 PM	#190
slravene Wannabe Elite Explorer Charlotte, NC (Home) / Raleigh, NC (School) '95 XLT Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 1,657 Vehicle Specs	its in Troy, NC; kinda middle/southern NC __________________ 95 XLT 4x4 / 4.5" / 33x12.5 BFG ATs / 15x8 / Locked CRS Buggy / SOLID HP60s / MAXXIS Trepadors -- Lee R.

08-19-2005, 11:01 PM	#191
slravene Wannabe Elite Explorer Charlotte, NC (Home) / Raleigh, NC (School) '95 XLT Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 1,657 Vehicle Specs	there are a few pictures of it in my registry, only a few though. __________________ 95 XLT 4x4 / 4.5" / 33x12.5 BFG ATs / 15x8 / Locked CRS Buggy / SOLID HP60s / MAXXIS Trepadors -- Lee R.

08-19-2005, 11:02 PM	#192
Brian_B Wannabe Elite Explorer Mountain Home, AR 2000 mounty / 56 f-100 Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2,305 Vehicle Specs	Ahh...15 hours or more from here. Thats why I didn't know. __________________ 56 f-100, short bed, 272 "Y" block V8, 3 speed standard, 3.73 rear gears. Oh...I have a 2000 mountaineer as well.

08-19-2005, 11:04 PM	#193
nissanboy Wannabe Elite Explorer Winston Salem, NC 97 XLT 4.0 4x4 Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,139 Vehicle Specs	Uwharrie is broing with big groups... rick i think Gilmer Tx is a good location still. Nice even distance from everywhere. __________________ 1997 4.0 SOHC 4x4: ____Powertrax Locker_______35x12.50r15 Tires _____BW 1354 Manual__ ____Cobra CB_______________3" Body Lift___________KKM Intake kit___ ____WAR153 Shackles_______Custom Leaf Packs_____Superior Shift Kit__ Sign up for theR.A.T.E.

08-19-2005, 11:05 PM	#194
slravene Wannabe Elite Explorer Charlotte, NC (Home) / Raleigh, NC (School) '95 XLT Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 1,657 Vehicle Specs	its a good trail. i think only like 16 miles of trails, but they can be run either way and there are quite a few playgrounds; quite plenty to keep a group busy for a day or two. __________________ 95 XLT 4x4 / 4.5" / 33x12.5 BFG ATs / 15x8 / Locked CRS Buggy / SOLID HP60s / MAXXIS Trepadors -- Lee R.

08-20-2005, 12:49 AM	#195
RockRanger Elite Ranger Fresno CA 86 ranger no more Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 5,261 Vehicle Specs	I have decided. I voted for colorado. I will be going to truckhaven a few times this winter anyway. So if it isnt a big group so be it. It just means we can find the real fun stuff I am going to plan on going to the moab run next spring, if the 10th aniversery run is back east. I'll hit rick up for a weekend of private tours of the pheonix trails on an off weekend. I will get to do a bunch of wheeling and have a bunch of fun anyway. Hopefully in the process Ill get to meet a few new members of this site. Now I have another question for the east coasters. How come up until now you havent tried to plan big runs on this site? I know RRORC and TRS seem to have alot of eastern members and they have had big runs, so do most of you attend those and call it good or are they truely a seperate group of east coasters and you guys here are a bunch of web wheelers? __________________ 93 ranger rock stock.

08-20-2005, 01:33 AM	#196
Burns EF Late Night Crew Memphis, TN 1991 Explorer/2002 F-250 Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 8,923 Vehicle Specs	well ive been doing a lot of reading and everyone has some good ideas but i would love to go but i dont know where all the talk is getting. can anyone update me on this. i would love to be invloved in this run. __________________ Jonathan Burns Moderator of the Feature Truck Forum Owner of the "Lime" Forum Rules and Usage

08-20-2005, 11:26 AM	#198
yob_yeknom Moderator Emeritus Glade Hill, Virginia '97 XLT & '06 Limited Join Date: Nov 2000 Posts: 4,536 Vehicle Specs	I voted Moab because I could fly there and join in for the ride along program. If it ends up in Indiana, I might could make it and just bring my own truck. __________________ ~ My Mugshot 1997 XLT and 2006 Limited Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try. ~ Jedi Master Yoda

08-20-2005, 01:20 PM	#199
Dopler174 Official Welcome Committe Greensboro, NC 1993 XLT 4X4 Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 5,090 Vehicle Specs	This is ridiculous. SLRAVENE, I have never been to Uwharrie. I would love to go. Sense we live no more than about an hour away, why don't you and I go there and try to get as many to come as possible. We could have a great weekend there and drive home Sunday. I have a brother that drowned his Toyota there and I'm sure that he would go again so that would make three. I have another friend with a Bronco that hasn't been there either and I could get him to go. Plus a few other friends that I could invite. So there is a few.

08-20-2005, 02:02 PM	#200
nissanboy Wannabe Elite Explorer Winston Salem, NC 97 XLT 4.0 4x4 Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,139 Vehicle Specs	Dopler pay attention there is a run planned already for setpember 3rd, another the last weekend in OCtober... the east coasters wheel we just dont have as many trails to play on as the western guys do so we always end up making long road trips to wheel. I honestly dont care where it is cause i will be there no matter what. I would prefer not to have to go all they way across the country though. __________________ 1997 4.0 SOHC 4x4: ____Powertrax Locker_______35x12.50r15 Tires _____BW 1354 Manual__ ____Cobra CB_______________3" Body Lift___________KKM Intake kit___ ____WAR153 Shackles_______Custom Leaf Packs_____Superior Shift Kit__ Sign up for theR.A.T.E.