Here are my pics from the Crown King run. Got a few good ones of a really bright rainbow we saw on the way out.

If anyone wants high res copies of pictures they're in, let me know and I can email them over.

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I like # 19. Good luck in China, Mark-san.

Very Cool

Mine are here

As a side-note to this thread; Travis & Brody, Dan & Corey (from Sierra Vista) and Jason and his Uncle Tom (from Tucson), along with Lee and myself camped in a great spot off the Old Senator Highway saturday nite. We set up a most ass-kicking tent city, and set up the AZXC banner for passers-by to marvel at, soon accompanied by an excellent, everburning bonfire in a huge stone pit. We all enjoyed dinner cooked out of the rain and settled in to enjoy some good music and laughter, fueled by Eric Clapton and Makers Mark The night sky cleared up and revealed all of its glory as the temperatures started to drop. After another A-1 breakfast, Lee, Travis, Jason/Tom, and Myself hit the big hill on the way off the mountain. What looked un-doable and treacherous the day before in the fog and rain, turned out to be a great time. Crawling up and down several times was a blast, 4lo @ 1600 rpm, easy money. Then we (T,J/T, & me) peeled off from Lee at Table Mesa to try our hands on that big hill again. I went first and shot up,mmm, 30 yards and lost traction. A quick re-alignment and I scooted right up. Travis came next and got to where I was initially. I spotted him out of trouble and he went right up. Then Jason. He hit the bottom hard and charged his way up again, (you guessed it) to the same spot. We all stayed on the trail/line, no one was in saturdays predicament. It was slick, but not sloppy.. Than as Jason was appearantly doing some sort of victory celebration in the X while getting up the hill, he drove (front Left) into a chasm on the hill side. As his truck began to point downwards while the truck settled into the mud, I used my girth to pull down the oppostite corner (much more exciting in person). Rocks were stacked to no avail :rolleyes: , the chasm was just to deep to get traction from the back wheels. I backed DBAX down the hill and snatched him out of the crack and up to safety. We all had a good time laughing at Jason for a while then moved on to the white wall . It was impossible to climb in it's current state and the by pass had to be taken. We aired up at 4sons and drove to Rays for pizza. We burnt our mouths on hot, greasy pizza and laughed at Jason some more An Xcellent club Xcursion from front to back, including everything from action (romping in huge, sloppy mud fields), to adventure (recovery from mud-soaked hillside tippy-slidy time), to fudge at the General Store, and a great time winter-camping in the AZ mountains. Glad to see some noobs along for this one too, a real good time

Awesome. Can't wait to get camping again. We've been working so much on SASing a Pathfinder lately (both ends)....

Thank God AZ Run V is right around the corner. 6 days, 5 nights...oh YEAH!

Awsome write-up Dan!

Were gunna have to plan to do CK again... when its NOT raining :rolleyes: , and go the backway

sweet pics, everyone.

If only I'd had MTs on the Rover...and wasn't selling it...and wasn't working so much lately.

I can't wait to see the pics Travis took. Get em up Travis! Had an excellent time, and it was well worth the trip up.

Thanks for letting me come along.

It was a wet evening. Tarps+fire=cozy in tent city.


The next morning was still cold, imagine that... Rocky was happy to remain in the truck for awhile until the sun warmed things up.


On the way down the hill we were treated to an awesome view of Castle Creek Wilderness.

Thanks for having us. We had a great time although cut short of the full adventure.
See ya all again soon.

No No, Thank yoou Sir. Great pics too

That's a quality tent city. You guys make SWANKy proud!

Thanks! All that I know I learned from swankY

Where are the rest of the pics? I know other people were taking some. Who's got all the ones of me teetering on the brink of disaster at Table Mesa? Preston?

Mark

Well, I know Travis took a ton. I am really interested in a few that he took of me! Post em up Travis, quit holding out on us .

I also had a great time. Thanks Dan for the Excellent synopsis of the next day. I would have loved to have been there to see it all. I'm glad there were more X's that could conquer the Hill, I hope there were other vehicles that were there to watch it happen!

Here are my contribution.
I'll soon be adding the videos I have also.

One Question, if you look at the last few pictures, I was wondering who still hasn't washed their Trucks (I haven't).

And a final unrelated to this event picture was the shot of Delta (my wife) and I on our Valentine excursion in a Hot Air Balloon. Boy what an adventure that was.

Nice pics. I like the one you took from the top of the hill. It really shows the perspective of the climb. Did you get any Vids of us playing in the mud? I was too busy to film.

And yes. I washed mine as soon as I got home, but only took the mud out of the wheels and all the little hiding places that it collects. I still have the remnants that are showing. At least until the rain washes even that away.

Are you going to put your Mud flap back on?

Pictures of Crown King HERE!

~The Teaser~

Excellent Shots PHXX. Get any good movies? I'm getting a great place to host movies next week, I'll try to create a space for you to upload them to share with everyone.

Does anyone else have great big server space to host movies to download? How much space is available on the AZXC host?

I have about 900MB on my site.

The AZXC site only has about 30MB or so (we only have 100MB max and email count against that I believe). We should pick up a few with the removal of Michael/Shannon's email accounts at the end of the month. But it won't be much.

AWSOME.. i'm lookin into that myself. Whats this great place that you found?

Is there still talk about getting a new host for the website, to hold more information such as pictures and videos?

I know we sort of talked about it back in Oct/Nov, but that was about as far as it went. I know my host allows unlimited email addresses (maybe all active members could have an account, though I'm not sure how we could police this), 1GB of storage and 40GB of bandwidth a month for about the same cost of what we are paying now. There are others as well for about the same deal (maybe more of some things, less of others).

Sounds like an agenda item for the March meeting.

It wouldnt be a bad idea to upgrade the site. This would do two things. One would be relieving Mike from having to pay for it and the whole forwarding of funds to do that. Also would add more megs for pics/ video section, Yes this will be a good subject for march meeting.