CAPITOL REEF, MOAB, AND JOSHUA TREE IN APRIL

The lure of the desert to me is a siren’s song. I cannot resist, and so off I went again between 12 and 26 April, 2010. The search for desert solitude, the mystery of the far away unseen places, and the thrill of the trail drew me back to the Utah area yet [...]

THE MOJAVE DESERT: MARVELS AND MISERY

It all began, as the story goes, with an article in the October, 2005 OFF ROAD ADVENTURES four wheel drive magazine (pgs 40-42) that so captured my imagination that I just HAD to go there. I get these “musts” from time to time, and this one so consumed me that I spread it all [...]

Wheeling The Red Rock

Trip Report by Rich Beard, Esprit de Four Adventurer
A couple of boobs with five hundred cubes, flatbed trailer and Rubicon in tow, my friend, Anton Morec, and myself set off for the red rock environs of southern Utah and Arizona on April 14, 2009. We hooked up with a nasty black storm front on [...]

Moab

WHEELING THE RED ROCK
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Panamint Valley Days

PANAMINT VALLEY DAYS TRIP REPORT
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My friend, Anton, and I left Santa Clara on Sunday, Movember 2nd, 2008, and headed over the Sierras via Hwy 80.  We were enroute circuitously for the Panamint Valley Days off road wheeling event.  Snow at 7000 feet over Donner pass, but none on the road.  We overnighted in Minden, Nevada, [...]

Moab

Mike and all other Ed4 Members,
With tanks full of petrol, my friend, Anton, and I set off for this year’s adventure jeeping in and around Moab, Utah. With my Rubicon on its 14 foot trailer behind my Cummins powered Dodge, a bag full of Esprit de Cprps shirts, and a truckload of fun expectations, we [...]

Panamint Valley Days

TRIP REPORT: Panamint Valley Days Run

My friend Anton Morec and I headed off to the PVD run via Reno on Wednesday, November 8th, 2006. After a delightful overnight with friends in Reno, we drove to the PVD campgrounds on Slate Range Road south of the settlement of Panamint Springs. We set up our tent [...]

Panamint Valley Days

On Wednesday, November 9th, myself and my pal, Anton Morec, set off for the Panamint Valley Days (PVD) desert four wheel drive run set for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (11, 12, & 13 November, 2005). My ‘03 Rubicon was loaded to the gills with camping gear, tools, parts, and optimism as we drove highway 80 [...]