I figured since the other thread started out as talking about making a club, and what clubs are available, we should have a thread that's just dedicated to setting up trail runs.
The title says it all, and it'll be less cluttered.
So, the 9/18/10 Run to Potato Ridge was a success!
Next item on the schedule is Logandale on 10/23/10 according to McRoberts. Seems like we have a few interested parties! Who all is planning to attend?
If there is anything in the meantime, or someone local wants another rig to ride with them, just post up and see if anyone is available!
Mostly classic mustangs. We have some Classic Bronco stuff too and a tiny bit of classic camaro.
We're not a shop though. We're a manufacturer of parts. We don't sell retail direct, we sell to the parts stores and restoration shops. We're a reproduction parts manufacturer. Not a car restoration shop... We are the biggest supplier of classic mustang reproduction parts in the nation. Give me a frame and a engine block and I could walk out to the warehouse and pretty much pull the parts to assemble and entire car. That's not our thing though, we just ship parts out the door to the stores where billy bob with his '67 mustang in the barn goes to buy the parts he needs.
I've replaced my engine, pulled/rebuilt/replaced my transmission, resealed my transfer case, done a bunch of steering work, oil changes oil pan gaskets, fuel line and fuel tank work...
And I've never even put the wagoneer up on a jack or jack stands, it has had all 4 tires on the ground ever since i have owned it.
I have a bunch of pictures, but the mines are looking like any other, so I'll only post up pictures of stuff that stand out.
We were going to try to get into some snow around Potosi, but there really wasn't much to get into there, so we hit a few mines at the range south of Lovell Canyon. Many of them were still being worked so we kept backing out of roads. I guess we looked a little suspicious and a Metro officer in a truck started to watch and follow us.
After a few minutes of watching us from a distance, he drove up and made contact. Super cool guy. Kind of looked like Paul Senior on American Chopper. We told him we were just exploring mines and showed him a few pictures. I think he was mostly checking that we weren't jumping anyones active mining claims. He helped us mark off a few areas on our maps that were active and even recommended a few spots to check out.
First picture is just inside a mine that was just closed earlier this year. The first areas of this mine had stacked rocks separating the area into storage areas and offices.
This was also in one of the newer mining areas. In most of the mines we've seen around Goodsprings, wood was used for shoring. In these areas, rock blocks were used almost exclusively. The way they were stacked almost felt less secure and safe than the ones shored up with wood timbers.
Tunneling in the newer mines was more precise. In some areas, the floors were just as level as those in homes. You can already see the ceiling beginning to cave in. I don't believe this mine was closed that long ago.
I was really tempted to try to get these out. On that show on the History Channel, American Pickers, they paid someone over $400 for an ore cart axle in worse shape than this.
I have a bunch of other pictures to sort through, but I'm supposed to be getting ready to go shopping. Can anyone recommend a place to get quality hiking boots that won't cost too much? I have some Magnum boots now, but they aren't holding up to climbing well enough.
He rotates the tires on the trail while articulated. That's how real men rotate tires on 4x4s! :laugh:
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