Yuma AZ run report

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Yuma AZ run report

Postby Danny » Wed Feb 05, 2014 8:21 pm

As most of you know my wife and I winter in Yuma, AZ. There are hundreds and hundreds of miles of desert back roads and off-road trails. This year I decided to find a group of wheelers that I might be able to wheel with and finally found the Yuma 4X4 group. It’s not a club, there are no dues or by-laws. It’s just a group of guys with Jeeps that want to do the same thing as me, have fun and explore the area. Saturday February 1st was the first run I was able to make and once I got to the staging area I decided that I would make a run report of this event on our site, so here goes.

We were to meet at the Chevron station at Fortuna Ave. and the North Frontage Road at 8:30. At 9 we moved to the start of the run, one of the entrances to the Barry Goldwater Range. I had talked my neighbor into riding shotty with me. He has an RZR he uses here in the desert and 02 Cherokee (not a wheeler), so he’s not new to wheeling and off-roading. When we pulled into the station there were Jeeps everywhere, probably 15-16 of them. I parked and immediately people started coming up to meet “the new green rubi guyâ€
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Postby SquirrelCrusher » Wed Feb 05, 2014 9:24 pm

Looks like a lot of fun. The open desert is a lot of fun especially when you get to play on cool things like old tanks.
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Postby Chrispy » Thu Feb 06, 2014 11:53 am

Very cool Danny :super :thu2:
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Postby OldGreen » Thu Feb 06, 2014 2:37 pm

One more for the Tackle Box. . .nice work Danny!

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Postby Grumpy » Thu Feb 06, 2014 6:47 pm

:thu:
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Postby Danny » Thu Feb 06, 2014 7:26 pm

Thanks guys. It was fun. A lot of the two track sand roads were a blast to drift. We're talking about 5-6" of sand. Blasting into a turn was great fun but bogging down and having to power out was a different story. That and we were not supposed to go over 25mph....NOT!!

Hopefully the next run will be more exciting.
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Postby Boyscout » Fri Feb 07, 2014 12:29 pm

Very cool! Thanks for posting.
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Postby Roman » Sat Feb 08, 2014 11:26 am

Super cool!

25mph? Boo....

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Postby Danny » Sat Feb 08, 2014 5:44 pm

It was a follow the leader run and I stayed in the no 3 position. I would drop back and then get with it so I could do some fun drifting. Mostly it was straight runs.
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