Tierra Del Sol's Desert Safari: March 04, 2011 - March 06, 2011

[Metal Twister]

Anyone here going... I missed last years with a broken rig. Im ready to go now and was wondering if we might get a good FSJ showing? Im working on the San Diego group so who know's Could be 1 or it could be 20. Anyone? :thumbsup:

http://www.tds4x4.com/2011-tds-desert-safari/

[tattooedup]

im goin. bringin the baby jeep maybe the cherokee if i can get it trailworthy in time

[gwinn]

I'll be about 50 miles north of it on the same day with a bike instead of a FSJ for the Triathlon at Lake Cahuilla. Hope you all have fun though!

[Heavy_Metal_Thunder_81]

HMMMM! Going to look into this one. Ill be off night shift and might be off Fridays...and if not I have a special liberty chit I can use to get out of work. I just hope I dont have duty that weekend.

[Heavy_Metal_Thunder_81]

Just found out that that weekend I do have duty...just great, an event thats actually close enough for me to attend and I cant go to it :banghead:

[78 Arizona Chief]

Metal Twister,
I will be there! I will be bringing my '78 Cherokee Chief towing our Coleman Evolution E2 pop up trailer, and the wife will be driving our 2006 LJ. Sure am looking forward to it. Missed it last year as our second son was born March 7th.

Tom, bummer, would have been great to see you. It has been a while.
Kevin

[tattooedup]

Hey man i used to do all kinds of stuff when i was on duty. your only gonna be 30 min away... so make muster, as long as you dont have watch come on out and keep your cell phone on.... and i was stationed with the desert rattlers every winter so i know where your at Just found out that that weekend I do have duty...just great, an event thats actually close enough for me to attend and I cant go to it :banghead:

[tattooedup]

im also bringin my father out for his 50th and first time to the desert... hes flying in from the frozen tundra of the midwest (STL) hes gonna have a shock cause its a LIL different from hes used to wheeling hahaha

[Metal Twister]

Its right around the corner, anyone else going?

[suzq044]

I want to.. :( Dunno if I can tho.. Jeep still has a major leak, and a potential crank-shaft issue. So I want to do a 4L swap.. probably won't be done by then.

[mpc]

I'm thinking about coming out for the day or possibly one night. My family can't make this trip, so it would be just me and my Willys Wagon.

The Wagon is not suited for anything too difficult, but I'd like to do some moderate wheeling with it as well as check out the new obstacle course.

It'd be great to meet up with some FSJs if possible.

[djongeward]

I will be there in the white wag. Bringing my Dad too.

Confirmed, I'll be there in the wag with my Dad on Sat morning. We live so close, we'll just show up for the run and register about 6:30 am or so. Run is sheduled for 8am. Check out the safety requirements on the web site. There are go arounds for the tougher segments. As this is a stock ht wag, that will be good. Hope to see some of you there.

[djongeward]

Went on Saturday for the big run. Had a great time. Took us about 3 hours or so to do the run. Stayed on the green trail but found it really hairy at times in the stock Wag. Had a really good response from the run staff. One comment was, "Now that is a real Jeep, woo hoo" with a hand pump. Handled the big climb near the end and got front air at the top. My son pointed out the plow effect my ball hitch made in some areas and I cracked up a set of nice backup lights mounted to low. The stock trailer hitch makes a good rock slider. Used my desert wash runner skills to slide off the big drop offs sideways. Ran the whole morning in 4 low avg speed about 5 mph. Over 900 vehicles participated.

I only saw 2 other FSJ's. Both were big rock machines near the new rock course and hill climb areas.

[gwinn]

I passed the 78 Arizona Chief pulling a sweet looking camper near Chiriaco Summit, CA on my way to the triathlon in La Quinta. How did it it go?

[78 Arizona Chief]

Tom
that was pretty funny! Here I am cruising along at a comfortable 65-70 mph and I hear this honking. At firstI thought someone was irritated with me for some reason and then I noticed it was you and the wife. Pretty funny stuff. Yeah we love the trailer. It is a Coleman Evolution Series E-2 pop trailer. We bought it 2 years ago after going to TDS. We make a yearly thing out of it now.

Anyway, had a great time. Old jeep did awesome, the TJ Unlimted did great too. No breakage is always a plus. Looking forward to next year.
Kevin