Where was the first place you ever went wheeling?

[Matt]

Legally...

I think lots may have done some non legal wheeling before they knew any better. This was my first official wheeling trip. This had to be the first for several others as well.

Beasley Knob April 07 GATR first official ride

[BigJerm]

Same as Matt first legal trip was Beasley. My 2dr Jk is the 4th rig back in that picture.  {toast}

[tcdawg]

1994 in my YJ, an unknown woods road in the deep dark jungle of Sandy Springs...illegal most likely.

2009 in my TJ, Rocky Flats. That's when I started to really get in to it all.

[Krawler00]

Non legal, sometime in the 90's with my old amigo, 6" lift and 33's. Legally and real wheeling, dixie run Tellico 2007. I signed up for the easier trails for the event, but after the 1st day on those trails I bailed out with a group of guys with XJ's and we did all the hard stuff. It was a baptism by fire deal as school bus was the 1st real trail I ever ran. I can still remember the adrenaline rush of climbing that trail and seeing real rocks for the 1st time. So many great memories from that place. Here is a pic from one of the XJ's behind me as we strated up. Steep! And of course crawfords rock garden. My first one  All on a 2"BB and 33's. Simple and worked awesome.

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[reb336]

Bought my first and only Jeep Wrangler back in October.  First wheeling trip was Durhamtown with GATR this year.



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[CopperCrawler]

First time... hmm... about 1968 or '69 (when I was 6 or 7) in my Dad's old flat-fender at a place we called Wolf Creek in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

http://maps.google.com/maps?daddr=38.406725,-119.491768&hl=en&ll=38.389033,-119.513569&spn=0.081537,0.178699&sll=38.406657,-119.491682&sspn=0.040759,0.08935&mra=mift&mrsp=1&sz=14&z=13

In High School (as a passenger since I didn't own a 4X4) at our favorite place to wheel (and party) Bald Mountain.

http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=37.992476,-120.374708&hl=en&ll=37.992798,-120.374279&spn=0.010214,0.022337&sll=37.99202,-120.375974&sspn=0.010214,0.022337&mra=dme&mrsp=0&sz=16&t=h&z=16

I bought my first 4X4 in 1987, an '87 Dodge Dakota while stationed in Oklahoma City and used to operate it in four wheel drive out at Draper Lake, but I never really considered it 4-wheeling. It was also operated in four wheel drive a few times while I was on leave in Reno, NV and again didn't really consider it wheeling.

And the first REAL wheeling trip was in 1995 at Niagra Rim near Sonora Ca. I was in my old CJ5 along with my brother-in-law in his YJ.   Although I did go to Hollister Hills (where Four Wheeler magazine holds the Top Truck Challenge) a few times too.

We ran the Rubicon, Sierra Trek, and Bassey Falls also to name just a few after that trip.

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[Krawler00]

Awesome! I hope to see the rubi someday soon.

[Trailabite]

Back in ILL. in some mud. Did a lot of mud holes and creeks. first time on the rocks was with the GATR group at RR when we had the party out at Doug's lake house in 2008 I guess.