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200 miles in low range - 7/7/2006 3:32:25 AM

Greenblade

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Well, i put 200 miles on the truck off-roadin' over the weekend of the 4th, and had some fun.

I had tried to take some movies via a digital camcorder, but i can't get them onto my computer despite a bag of cables and widgets. I can only get the movie to play on the computer screen, and then hit alt-printscreen. So the pictures aren't so great.

How the frick do people take such awesomely clear pictures anyway?

But here's some pics, i threw some in taken with my cell-camera, which is better quality for whatever reason.

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RE: 200 miles in low range - 7/7/2006 3:39:38 AM

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a few more

not much in the way of rock crawlin around here.

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RE: 200 miles in low range - 7/7/2006 3:43:39 AM

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few more.

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RE: 200 miles in low range - 7/7/2006 3:52:15 AM

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ok, that's probably boring enough.

i'll bore you guys some more when i get time to go out again.

It was fun. I found a cool site that has listings of OHV trails in different states, and there are some around me, i'll have to give them a try.

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RE: 200 miles in low range - 7/7/2006 10:29:20 AM

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looks like you had fun. what's the website you mentioned?

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RE: 200 miles in low range - 7/7/2006 3:17:50 PM

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Functional BLING

Looks FUN!!

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RE: 200 miles in low range - 7/7/2006 4:08:45 PM

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shortie, i think its trailsource.com

i have it bookmarked at home. it turned out 4 or 5 that i didn't know existed. In a way, i guess growing up in farm country is an offroading advantage. Over the weekend a few "hey, do you mind if I"'s got me access to maybe 12,000 acres of hilly prarie/streams/sloughs and whatever. Best people in the world up here.

yeah, its trailsource.com

i am thinking about joining a group of hummers to Moab later this year, if they'd invite a stranger. I found a sign-up sheet somewhere or other on the web. I also want to go to the Rubicon, but i don't see alot of hummer videos relating to the rubicon. I know the H2's big marketing-push was based on taking a pack of reporters down the rubicon in the prototypes. You ever go there?

Anyway, i am getting better at remembering to not stop in the middle of mud, which seems to go a long way towards better results.

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RE: 200 miles in low range - 7/7/2006 4:09:45 PM

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Functional BLING

Looks FUN!!

it was very fun, for sure.

speaking of functional bling, is your rim exposed on your spare? i can't imagine you put that little plastic thing in front of those 24's.

i'll go read your thread again.

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RE: 200 miles in low range - 7/7/2006 4:19:02 PM

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the rubicon is a bit narrow for H1s and 2s in a lot of places. i'm going to the eastern end of it in a few weeks, more hummer friendly.

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RE: 200 miles in low range - 7/7/2006 4:24:21 PM

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too narrow as in slow going or too narrow as in you-are-sure-to-mangle-your-truck?

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RE: 200 miles in low range - 7/7/2006 5:08:40 PM

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too narrow as in body damage narrow. i have no problem with brush pinstripes, they add character. boulders leave more than just pinstripes. the long wheelbase isn't rubicon ready either.

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RE: 200 miles in low range - 7/7/2006 6:10:53 PM

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i can't find that sign-up sheet now, dangit. i'm sure i bookmarked it at home.

the thing about offroading is that its so insanely fun to just go drive. ask the neighbors if you can drive, and then just drive. see hill, go up. see gravel dig, plow into it and see if you can make it over whatever. see slough, plow in there (assuming you know that it isn't a rock-covered lake bottom, but just mud in there. for the most part, i've seen all these little lakes swamps and sloughs dry so you have a good idea). then ruin your shoes and get 2 pickups to pull you out, hopefully you don't need a tractor.

Its very simple and free. And now and again somebody pulls off the highway to ask what in the hell is wrong with you and laugh a bit, or hops off a tractor to ask what in the hell is wrong with you and laugh a bit.

I wonder if more organized trails are as simplistic in their reward?

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RE: 200 miles in low range - 7/7/2006 9:57:14 PM

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obviously i didn't mean this forum is a little out there.

we're completely out there.

j/k, but you guys know what imean.

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RE: 200 miles in low range - 7/8/2006 12:32:07 AM

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It's hard for me not to turn right on the road and try to go over the cement barriers that are about 2-2.5 feet high. Every time I see one i want to go over it. In my area, that will land you a big fine if not arrested, and that is why I haven't done it yet. I see ditches that would be fun to cross, but again there's Johnny Law to bust my fun. If it were up to me, all roads would require low range.

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RE: 200 miles in low range - 7/8/2006 3:07:48 AM

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quote:

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It's hard for me not to turn right on the road and try to go over the cement barriers that are about 2-2.5 feet high. Every time I see one i want to go over it. In my area, that will land you a big fine if not arrested, and that is why I haven't done it yet. I see ditches that would be fun to cross, but again there's Johnny Law to bust my fun. If it were up to me, all roads would require low range.

i hear that!

stuck on the interstate durring a traffic jam? just take a hard right, go over the big construction dirt pile, past the caterpillar, up onto the grass, and left up the ditch to the stop light, where you can sit quietly as though you did nothing wrong.

oh, man. see, 95% of the time i'm in my hummer i just idle around all mellow like. i've never had a vehicle that made me feel more smooth when driving. just smooth, laze along, do your thing, everybody can just exist around you.

the other 5% you should, in fact, be in low range and using it. prius drivers have their own traffic jam (i am a prius driver!) joy. they don't waste gas, so they can sit there and sort of be pleased by the fact that they're just listening to CDs and not wasting money.

hummer drivers should get their own traffic jam joy as in if you have a hummer you can just go around.