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Re: MOAB 2011
« Reply #12 on: October 27, 2010, 04:02:43 PM »
Jerm, it is well worth it and you really don't need a super rig to wheel out there. Lockers are really all you need. I liked the cabin doug but like I said, got to start gathering the funds from somehwere and find a tower to get my jeep out and back. :P
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Re: MOAB 2011
« Reply #13 on: October 27, 2010, 06:05:03 PM »
I should be in a better spot this year to financially make it. If I can finish this trailer, I should be in.
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Re: MOAB 2011
« Reply #14 on: October 27, 2010, 07:01:25 PM »
I would think lockers and belly up for my jeep. Might just wait until the next year. Don't want to drive my jeep and no trailer. I already got 12 days off for a cruise so getting another 12 might be tough

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Re: MOAB 2011
« Reply #15 on: October 28, 2010, 12:27:41 PM »

I have to be in Vegas the week after the Safari, so I'm looking at towing out for EJS, leaving the Jeep, fly home from Vegas, and back for Memorial Day.

I'm with you Doug--EJS and Memorial Day. Yee ha.
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Re: MOAB 2011
« Reply #16 on: October 28, 2010, 01:26:41 PM »
A few of you guys are talking about maybe not beig financially capable of going this year, how much financially is it normally besides the gas and food?

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Re: MOAB 2011
« Reply #17 on: October 28, 2010, 03:09:03 PM »
Well for me it's different since I have bummed a trailer spot with Dougie the last 2 times. But the best thing to do is look at where you will stay and figure out that cost, then food, then gas and spending cash. Gas is the biggest expense unless you stay in a hotel. We stayed at the campground in a cabin and it was not too bad. But you can camp primitively for around $10 a day at a few laces. Just find a place to shower. I left last year with 2000.00 in pocket and came back with $500.00. But I did go out to dinner, buy supplies, shop a bit and paid for a trailer ride. But everyone is different. START SAVING NOW!! I am already late with my funds so it will be tight this year if I go... hopefully.
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Re: MOAB 2011
« Reply #18 on: October 28, 2010, 04:30:16 PM »
This year I was out over $2500 of which Ben shared greatly in the fuel expense and I provided a ride for him, pappa, and ole yeller. It aint cheap to get there and back so if you can share a ride and expenses and sleep on the dirt, you're way ahead.
4 bunk cabins with a shower house are about $80 a night total.
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Re: MOAB 2011
« Reply #19 on: October 28, 2010, 08:10:05 PM »
Not to beat a dead horse, but figure in some breakage money in there as well. It is not a rare occasion to need some sort of spare part while you're out there. And whether you tow or drive, its ~1750 miles one way you're putting on your rig. I budgeted for about the $2000 range like Ben said, and then my tow rig blew a turbo coupler about 600 miles into day one resulting in an additional $600 spent on the trip. {boohoo}

That being said: the three days I did get to spend in Moab wheeling--TOTALLY worth it. The trails out there are nothing like you see around here and the pictures don't do any of it justice. If you have an opportunity to go, GO. But plan it out in advance like the others say--from where you'll be staying to how much will be spent on food, gas, etc.
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Re: MOAB 2011
« Reply #20 on: October 28, 2010, 09:17:01 PM »
Man, I am getting excited just thinking about the next trip. Hope I can go again.
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Re: MOAB 2011
« Reply #21 on: October 28, 2010, 09:32:20 PM »
Man, I am getting excited just thinking about the next trip. Hope I can go again.

Yeah, me too.

On the way back i always say I'm done, and then a few months roll by.....

And we always say we're leaving early on a certain day, and the night before comes, and we roll.... (can't sleep anyway)

And we always say we're sleeping in a hotel 2 nights on the way out and then we just keep rolling until it makes no sense...

Ben, I've found other places to stay...  3 bedroom condos, a "compound" of old houses right of the strip of which 2 have 3 bedrooms, 6 max, for $275 a night/$46 pp a night, with nice living room and kitchen, but nothing beats the 4 bunk cabin at $20 pp a night, even if you do have to go to the bath house. 

We really got lucky this year and the 90 degree heat hit the day we left.  Brutal almost 100, and the high the entire time we were there was 89.  Maybe next year too.

Sounds like most of you guys want to go Memorial Day and ride Saturday to Friday.

So the big question is...

Will my 7.3 Excursion pull a double with a JK and a TJ...  I'm afraid not, but want to know!

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Re: MOAB 2011
« Reply #22 on: October 28, 2010, 09:50:57 PM »
This would be the dream plan. 

If I could arrange my work travel so I could fly in and out  and move the Jeep on the weekends, and find guys through JK Owners and Pirate to store the Jeep (have a place a few hours east of LA with Larry at Poison Spyder and near Anaheim with Currie, but would need one of the guys near the Rubicon to help) then this could become the plan.

 The problem with the Rubicon is that it doesn't warm up and snow melt until July.  Might be my last chance though.




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Re: MOAB 2011
« Reply #23 on: October 28, 2010, 10:11:48 PM »
Seen Moab, done all the hard stuff, ready for the rubi {letseat} I would love to take a trip there and just take 3-4 days to ride it, camp, then head home. Just need a trailer and a tow rig... that pulls better than the sub :P
I've grown tired of this.

 



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