Holy Mud.

[tom4bren]

Bart - mud is the best wheeling!!! IMHO

Eric - Never stuck? Kids - how quickly they forget Shenandoah???

I was actually slinging a fair amount of GLUB when we left the campsite.

[LittleBeast]

If only everyone was as Johnny on the spot with there cameras, I feel like I was there! Here is the opening scene of the VX movie, basically sums us all up, here to help a fellow VXer, simply because we are all so freaking unique that our extension of ourselves, the VX, brings us together no matter what junk we get ourselves into.......

[nfpgasmask]

Bart - mud is the best wheeling!!! IMHO

LOL, mud is fun when its not you in it! I think mudding is fun in a vehicle you don't care so much about, but in my VX, no sir, I don't like it!

If only everyone was as Johnny on the spot with there cameras, I feel like I was there!

I've actually started carrying my small point-and-shoot camera with me all the time, but in this case I had my good camera with me and I had about 30 minutes on my hands while I was stuck to just sit there and take photos. There were a bunch of wild horses roaming around the area at the time too, I snapped these two shots of a cute baby and another shot of the sun setting.





In this shot you can see the little canal I crossed. Stupid.


Bart

[tom4bren]

"LOL, mud is fun when its not you in it! I think mudding is fun in a vehicle you don't care so much about, but in my VX, no sir, I don't like it!"

I can relate

I used to have a cool pic of my old Dodge stuck to the frame rails in muck ... with a 113 (Armored Personnel Carrier) pulling me out. Really nice shot but lost in the divorce.

[Triathlete]

I think you should return your wheels...they are defective. Those "teflons" are supposed to shed the mud!
Have fun getting all that mud out of everything...for the next couple months. I avoid the stuff now if possible.

[nfpgasmask]

I think you should return your wheels...they are defective. Those "teflons" are supposed to shed the mud!
Have fun getting all that mud out of everything...for the next couple months. I avoid the stuff now if possible.

Well, tonight I am going home, and removing each wheel one at a time to clean everything out. I will scrub my baby's underbelly if I have to. I will probably be at it for 3 hours. Hopefully not more than that, and yes, avoid mud I shall. As I said before, this was 100% a surprise. But thinking back, I guess it was a pretty stupid idea to begin with.

Bart

[tom4bren]

"guess it was a pretty stupid idea to begin with."

But a great Kodak moment.

[etlsport]

Eric - Never stuck? Kids - how quickly they forget Shenandoah???

i have no idea what you are talking about..

[mdwyer]

We may just have a calendar submittal pic...

Agreed. That first pic is beautiful. You sure do have a lot of colors down there!

[CrnCnn]

Nice work guy!

But how did Clint keep so clean and un-stuck getting to the other side of the drainage?!

Hows this? I played in the mud a bit on the way in and on the way out.



Cari was driving back and forth in all the surrounding puddles, hoping some one got stuck

[nfpgasmask]

Agreed. That first pic is beautiful. You sure do have a lot of colors down there!

Take a look at this higher res version:

http://www.nofuture.com/Dsc_4271.jpg

I am *SHOCKED* with the vividness and clarity the D80 with the 18-200 Nikkor lens is producing. I think also the time of day helped (sunset/sunrise is magic hour), but still. I am in with this camera setup. If only I had this lens for for Moab!

Bart

[nfpgasmask]

Yeah so I pressure washed the wheels for like 10 minutes on my way home from work, and then when I got home I rolled around underneath and removed anything I missed with the pressure washer. I think I am pretty much good to go now. I may still get the bearings repacked anyway, just to be safe.

Bart

[tom4bren]

you do take some great pix Bart. Have you ever surfed around pbase to compare to other amateurs?

[nfpgasmask]

you do take some great pix Bart. Have you ever surfed around pbase to compare to other amateurs?

Amateur? Come on man, at least give me "pro-sumer"!!

Yeah, I've been on pbase and flickr, a lot of nice work on both of those sites. Photography is great, been at it since high school. The more I do it, the more I do it. It is sort of an addiction I think. Since I moved out west I have been documenting my life with photos on a fairly regular basis, and is makes looking back a lot more interesting when you have all the photos to go with the memories. And digital photography is simply amazing. I am still awe struck by how many photos you can take on a 4 GIG SD card, and everything is immediate. I just love it. I think everyone should take photos as often as possible and everyone should blog. With the ease of digital photography and the Internet, human beings have been creating a modern digital history of society. Imagine what Deadwood or WWII history would have been like if everyone back then had a digital camera and blog to keep up to date?

Bart

[tom4bren]

"pro-sumer"!!

I wasn't sure of your status so played it conservative. Your photos look pro quality but didn't know if you actually got paid for it.

For my blunder - you may take a photo of some of the mud you got stuck in & throw it at a picture of my Proton.

BTW: The main reason that I like digital is that due to my LACK of expertise - I take 30 pix & pray that 2 turn out.