Wow...and I thought last years ECXC was good...Tons of Xterras--90+ at the last count, great people--had to be like 150 or more, great weather--sunny all 3 days, warm, not too humid, great trails, trail leaders, food, beer, and of course the NJAX Non-Stop Go GO!! More trail carnage this year than I remember from last year---More trucks=more breakage?? More modified X's pushing their limits? Anywho...thought I'd share a few pics...

When I saw that pic w/ all the X' gathered there, I got a little verklempt in my ganehktuhgizoindt. That's frickin' beautiful man..

EDIT to add- Before everyone else follows your lead, plz move this to "EVENT PICTURES", thanks.

What a great weekend. Anyone who missed it should block out the weekend now. I was friggin' GREAT!

Looks like there was a good turnout. Would love to see some more pics and hear the stories.

Way to go guys!!!

that SAS truck was so cool, the weekend was awesome..but i did notice the trail leaders liked to get stuck

Looking at those pics I am wondering how many alternators died this weekend.

And yes the SAS it very nice. I loved mine in Moab and I am sure that Mehdi is loving his too. His truck looked like it was having fun on those trails.

Ohhh man. Wish I went! Glad you guys had a good time! Great pics!

One that it confirmed, maybe two more. It was a GREAT time.

I have some pics of Mehdi on the RTI ramp I'll get posted tomorrow.

What would make you say that?


Great EVENT!! Thumbsup to all that attended

Trail leader that I was with was our guinea pig and in a single day he cracked the reat driver side shock, so that the part where the shock attaches to its mount went from an "O" to a "C" and was running on 3 shocks the rest of the day. Then he almost rolled it going up a really rutted steep hill, then killed the alternator sinking it in really muddy water....I should have taken a pic of the alternator after it was removed....there were sticks and grass coming out of it every which way....

Wow, looked like a great time! Loved that first pic of the silver X!!! WOW!

LOL at the "just married" X

what a great honey moon!

Red X standing on the box to see over the fender of Killer X is hilarious.

The Just Married X was from Quebec and on their Honey Moon.

There was three alty's that went this weekend...

Also to add a t-bar anchor, a shock eyelet blown out,a couple of front bumpers, a couple of rears as well.Oh yeah a rear window,a couple of front fenders.

Rear window? Do tell what happened with that.

Well, let's say the trees got their revenge on Brent.

Oh that is too funny.

Yeah it took a few years.

Trees are well known for their patience.

I am sure all the Ents have been descussing this for some time.

You guys are too funny.

The Calmini SAS system worked perfectly and yes I had a blast! I'm not even maxed out on the RTI ramp since my rear tires were rubbing against the metal in the back of the rear well but my tires took care of that problem as the day progressed.

As I said on NOR, trails that were very difficult to impossible were suddenly rather easy and very little spotting was necessary. In fact, my spotters felt it was too easy so they spotted me down the steeper side of the ledge on trail 5. Most folks make 3 point turns and line up to go down the left side so you don't risk getting too off camber but my spotters decided to have me make a hard right and go down the right side which is why you see some people pushing a tree out of the way so it doesn't take out my rear fender. The steeper drop off was easy too so I might have to try the larger drop off further down the ledge next time.

My pictures can be seen below along with RedX's pics. Click on "Offroading" and then "ECXC '05".

http://www.cinafamily.com

Hey now, not all trail leaders got stuck.

If 84 trucks = good turnout, then yes we had a good turnout

My wife couldn't find our Digital Camera before we left. She had it in her backpack the night before, took it out and we haven't been able to find it.

-Michael

Tiny RedX

But you did forget to mention that only the IFS trucks were the ones not to break down.

This is true.

That is a lot of Trucks! It is way cool to see you guys had such a great turnout!

Very cool pics. Looks like a lot of fun.

First awesome pics! Second usually i do not like when some one with a yellow X makes just about everything yellow but I like that opne a lot. and Third thats what you get what your trail leader haha

Now this is what it's all aboot. Who owns the yellow X?. that has to be the coolest I have seen

that belongs to Daggerdoggie

Yep, you would be talking about me. I don't regret doing anything that day...well, maybe going into that mud/water pit. I just hope that you guys had a great time wheeling on Saturday. I know I did.

Like Gene said, there were 3 confirmed dead alternators. The good news is Miikkaa rebuilt one of them, Brad (RedX) let me use one and I'm not sure who gave the other guy one. But all three of us got an alternator.

Nice pics, im gonna have to go next year. What size tires are on the X with the SAS?

36"

36" holy shit, how much of a lift does the X have in the front and back, and what did u add to make the rear higher?

What rims are those?

I thought Mehdi was only running 35's. But yeah, what's an inch.

That's what SHE said!!!! Tee-heee-heee...

God I love juvenile humor!!

They are 35's..

As soon as I hit "Add Reply", I said to myself who's gonna be the first to say this.

That's what I thought. Wasn't Pika the only one to run 36's??

Jeff I think so but I'm not totaly sure..