Continue from yesterday, which was a blast, so I am totally ready to have a wonderful full days of driving around.
Wake up around 7, because we are going at 9, so I am not in a hurry. I went to check out the Inn and find Tom. He did the Bubble test for me, which my visibility seems like worse than the FJ cruiser since my truck is a full size. By the time we finished, there are others who comes in, so we start on other stuff before we officially hit the trails. Just in case, here are some links.
After we get off the wash, we get up the road, and went to a gas station for filling up air for tires and inspect the damages to the vehicles.
Damages to my vehicle:
Bent my driver side tube
full scratches on both side, mostly can be buffed off
Rear bumper has some damage, but not major
Scratches under front bumper, but unable to fully seem
Scratches on the sides of all 4 tires
Changes needed in the future:
New tires- BFGoodrich AT KO
New running board ( don’t really go hard core off-road so I would like to have more stepping area)
Opinion:
This is great class, I think for most beginner people who want learn how to properly off road would learn a lot from the class. This is perfect class to know how to wheeling properly with minimum damage to your vehicle and environment. I been off-road on and off for last ten years, which I had never drive off-road like this, and learned so much with my class. I highly recommend this classes.
second day morning test skill, turning radiustesting skillinstruction on turning extent and exiting vehicle rangefollow the coneThe Palm canyon service person recommended a restaurant without name, later we find out it’s not restaurant with out name, it’s actually restaurant with two name, because the name was changed by someone else and haven’t put a sign up yet, so on the menu is using the old name, but receipt showed another namedrive on the road to destinationdrive on the road to destinationdrive on the road to destination, see some ridgesdrive on the road to destination, I am last oneFind a location we can go tothe Calcite mine for light off-roadStopped for lowing tire pressurethe Calcite mine for light off-road the Calcite mine for light off-roadthe Calcite mine for light off-roadthe Calcite mine for light off-roadthe Calcite mine for light off-roadstopped for a break, it’s hot but dry heat, and some windgood mountain viewfollowing the carDriving aroundrocky areathe Calcite mine for light off-roadDriving around some difficult areanice view of area we just droveflat areaI am last one this timerock formationfollow the leaderon the waysteep areaon the waytraveledexcellent viewbeautiful, should get my polarizer filterStopped to view the area and take a breakThe viewThe viewthe formation is like hole in the wall mojaveThe viewThe viewThe viewThe viewThe view
Since everyone is doing okay we skipped lunch and we decide to go ahead. So we go to more advance area where there are more difficult terrains around, especially we only have 3 vehicles which there are more grounds we can cover and go for more different route than at hungry valley.
The viewThe viewdriving aroundThere is a very steep dip therefirst few went throughthe one before me went throughThis is where I got stuck, due to many reason, but it’s fairly steep, and it’s my vehicle created all those sand piling on the top side to try to get through, but they had to strap me upchassie challengecross the rocky area, and some area with 2 wheels off ground, we had to use the left break techniquedrive with door open for spottingdifficult areamore drivinglarge dipprough, narrow areajust place we are goingdriving arounddriving aroundmy truck still looking goodreally, really steep drophave more space in between just in casevery uneven terraindoesn’t look like but it’s steepvery steephigh rocky areabuild some speed to get upalmost theremade itmy turn soonjeep nextbuild up speedgot to the topmy turntop of the mountainexcellent viewhighlight of the offroad tripgetting down through those areasteep going downrocky arearocky and steep areatake a breakcan’t see the ridgethe teacher went down to make sure it’s possibletake a while to go downwaiting for good long timeit’s possible, so we line up to go downjeep went firstdropping downI am waitingmy turn alsocontinue driving off the areafollow the leaderget back on roadput air back into the tiresdirty truckbent the flat step on the rockdent the bumperscratch the covertime to go home
