At the end of Hell's Revenge at GoneMoab we were very pleasantly surprised to find XSnoopy from Florida waiting for us.

As we reminisced & waited for the group to catch up the kids played around joyfully as we watched Carlton (one of the other whites) get hung up/tipsy on a ledge from a crazy line.

We then went up baby's Loins Back (been up the real one 3x's now) and proceeded to Arches NP the back way through Willows Wash. Arch in the windows shows has massive they are with Sierra, Kristina, and Aaron pictured.

Sure was great seeing Snoopy and family again for a few hours, made my day :-) even more prefect.

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"Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime."
Let me guess. HAMM radio in one hand, cell phone in the other and a 35mm remote release on the steering wheel next to your auto pilot/auto ass wash toggle?
Good pics though!

Way to go, Travis....glad to see you made it. Maybe we can expect you to mysteriously show up on an xcursion one of these days? Who says AWOL can't be fun!

Looks great!!!

When I first read the post, I thought Brian meant the geo version of you!

It's great that you made it all the way to Moab!! My Gosh, that's a long drive from Florida. I'm sure it was worth it, and you all had a good time. Sounds like it!!!

Snoopy made it but, sadly, Travis did not.

I did, however, complete the first phase of flight school while my wife and kids were tearing up Moab!

*drools*

i wish i had this week off to join all the craziness 8(
but we were able to get out only for past weekend - got there early saturday , and were driving about trying to spot any XOC stickers, but - seen none.. guess was too early 8(

seems like missed lots of fun 8( As usual.

Nice pics...

Wow! Good stuff!

I saw a 4x4 going down "lion's back" in Utah on the TV program "real TV" where he lost his brakes and lost control and plunged down (nobody died, just seriously hurt)...but I was just wondering if this the same one on this forum....

Oh yeah that was some sort of Bronco or something like that.

Yeah...that was the one, it looked pretty bad...I bet the driver was shitting bricks, man...he got lucky, he only sustained broken bones, and escaped death...

The "He" you speak of was a "She." Apparantly, the guy drove the bronco up and he let his girlfriend/wife drive back down. She rode the breaks to the failure point and FLEW down the last 50 feet or so. (According to an interview I saw about the incident).

Well, hell, that's an accomplishment even more worthy of celebration than driving all the way to Moab! Are you still going to fly Prowlers?

Offroadx posted a link to the Bronco riding off of the Lion's Back trail a few months ago. (I searched but I could not find the link)

If I remember correctly, the dude drove up and down that more than once, to prove to his girlfriend that it was ok. She finally worked up enough nerve to drive the last time. Of course by then the brakes had heated up quite a bit from the repeated trips - combined with her riding the brakes the last time all contributed to the brake failure. If you watch the video - she did a fantastic job of keeping the truck on track, and it only actually fell off at the last section - which was somewhat close to the ground and impacting on (relatively) soft sand.

Yeah she actually did a pretty good job, "any landing you can walk away from..."

Don't know if anybody saw it: the TV show "Worst Case Scenario" featured that Lion's Back bit, then invited the woman to "face her fears" and drive down it again. This time she had a professional guide riding shotgun...she made it Sadly, it was in a Jeep, not an Xterra

P.S. I think there is a link to the video posted here somewhere...OffroadX had posted it but I couldn't get the link to work here

I won't know if I get Prowlers until I finish the "Primary" and "Intermediate" portions of my flight training.

But then again, F-18 Hornets would be nice. They are stationed in Lemoore, CA. I could be back with SCCX by the end of 2004!

Hey Snoopy...saw you driving down Gulf Beach Highway near my house the other day, last Thursday. Heard you before I saw you. Good luck with your flight training and don't let your classmates land in my back yard!

Yea, with the little off-road use that Snoopy is getting lately I'm considering getting rid of the MT/Rs and going with something a little less aggressive. Possibly the BFG AT's?

In a few weeks that could be me landing in your back yard