I drove up from florida to participate. I didn't know anyone except for a few foolish comments on the pre-trip chat topic. I drove all night thursday and arrived friday morning. Mike L. (red JK unlimited rubicon), Sam (red TJ), and Alex (blue YJ) were already there. They invited me to go ride, but I wanted to dump my gear and set up a camp first. We kept in touch over the cb and they came back shortly to lead me on my first ride.
In my hurry, I left my camera in my bag in the tent. Thanks Mike for taking this picture. Alex is trying to get me up the rock face at "good, bad, ugly". I finally made it after my tires dried up some. Outside of a few rides on the local forest sand trails, this was the first time I had tried anything difficult with this jeep.
More fellas showed up later in the afternoon and evening. It was getting colder. I was introduced to many, but it's hard to remember names when you're the new guy. The next morning, I took a few pictures around the camp area. I'm not complaining, but the area is really just a clearing with few familiar camp site features. I put my tent up across from where the main crowd was going to gather because I wanted to be able to get some sleep friday night.
Fortunately, it was so cold that the muddy infield was hard as pavement.
You can see that tent camping with the georgia crowd is "primitive"....it was cold for everyone in a tent.
We had one good size fire friday night, but it was small for the extreme cold we had. We burned a lot of wood. Some fellas tried to warm back up saturday morning while the gang waited for the day-trippers to arrive. I think we have Kyle, Daniel, Matt, JJ, Brian, ....I may have some of these names wrong.
...and Sam, who held my hand on the trails a few times.
The sun had been up for a few hours now so it was getting warm. It never got above freezing on Saturday. I got up a few times during friday night/saturday morning. My little thermometer showed 12 degrees around 5:00 am.
I kick myself for not taking the time to take pictures on the trail rides. I was having fun and just never dug my camera out during saturday. I thought we might ride again sunday, so I didn't think much about it at the time. I borrowed these two pictures from "Lizzy". Thanks for including me in your photos.
...white steel wheels....LOL......
Wish I had more. Y'all should be proud of what you have going. Thanks for letting me invite myself. I'll try again with you guys later this year.
Steve.