Responding to Ocktoberfest

Great report Connie. There is little I could add, except that you are being way too nice describing my little mishape on the return leg.
“That situation was caused by my losing concentration on the road ahead. The rock in question was in front of the passenger side tire and I simply forgot [...]

Deer Valley Run

Here’s my belated Blue Lakes trip report (I’ll send the Slickrock portion of the trip separately…)
Blue Lakes Trip Report - October 17, 2009
7:00 AM
Our gathering place for the Blue Lakes run was the Dorrington Hotel parking lot. Five rigs showed up:
- Carlos in his XJ with two kids
- CJ in his CJ7 (the run organizer [...]

Ocktoberfest Run

October 16th, 17th & 18th
Attendees:
Carlos & the kids/Cherokee
CJ/CJ7
GaryF & D/JK
GaryS, Marleene & Molly/TJ
MikeC, Herb/JK
Myself/CJ7
Friday 16th - What beautiful weather for a trip! I left Fremont Friday morning heading for the hills. I stopped at the Pro Bass Shop off in Manteca for fun. When I got back to my Jeep it wouldn’t start. [...]

Blue Lakes

To All,
Despite some threatening weather and a small turn-out, the trip turned out to be a good one!
Ron Frey and I headed up Thursday night and hit very little traffic. We made it to Arnold in @ 3hrs and arrived by 9:40 pm.
Friday morning we hit town for some breakfast and some forest service maps [...]

Blue Lakes

Blue Lakes

Hello All,
I’m finally getting to this trip report… Sorry to take so long, but I’ve just returned from a lengthy business trip. I actually got them to delay this trip so it wouldn’t interfere with the ED4 schedule!
I’ve been wanting to try out this trail since I read about it in one of my off-road [...]

Blue Lakes

Now, on to the actual trip report. For this trip, I actually had a co-pilot. My good friend Ted was able to join me and had a fantastic time. He has some four wheeling experience but as soon as he saw Dennis in the first obstacle he realized it was nothing like this.
We arrived in [...]

Blue Lakes

HereGÇÖs the perfect formula for fun:
Sierras + great weather + 4×4 vehicles + Oktoberfest party.
Carol and I started our adventure Friday night braving the rush hour traffic
through Milpitas and Fremont. This made us think of a line from a GÇ£you
might be a 4 Wheeler ifGÇ¥ posting that we saw recently that went something
like this GÇô [...]

Blue Lakes

I to would like to give a special THANKS to Mike, Darell and Kathy on a job well done!
Everyone knows how Saturday went so I’ll talk about Sunday.
Our Sunday morning Slick Rock Trail went very well. Our group consisted of 3 rigs Brian’s Rubicon, Richards Xterra and my Toyota. We left the trail head at [...]

Blue Lakes

First, Major Kudos to Dennis and Ava. After a very rough start on the first
obstacle I could tell that Dennis had lost a lot of confidence. But he quickly
regained it and by the end of the trail he was taking on some tough rock
gardens without issue. Just to give you a clue he was carburetted, [...]