Oct 18-20: Anza Borrego Trip

Don’t know. All I know is, I couldn’t see over the hood of my 3rd gen going up and over, so I slowed way down. Other guys were doing it a much faster speed. So maybe Spvrtan had just been through that exact combination of tracks days before to scour and memorized which were good to go. Or, I thought maybe, the less obtrusive 2nd gen hood + 40” tires allowed a view over the swells... maybe on approach. I just described it as I did to 1. give props to Sam for remembering the perspective of newbies with stock trucks, and 2. give a heads up to anyone that ventures along this route.

I don’t KNOW much, just sharing my observations, and possible contributing factours to explain why some trucks (and drivers, of course) were more capable.

 

Driver mod FTW.

 

I wouldn't say my tires nor lift helped much with visibility on those sections. It's moreso being comfortable with your truck's capabilities, driver handling, and offroad experience.

 

This is how to say driver mod but still have forum friends.

 

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Lol. I’ve been a passenger in the truck of only one driver I’d trust to take me at speed over stuff we can’t see over. And even that guy once got it wrong. Driver mod ~ willingness to total a truck, pretty fine delineation.

 

I’ve only ridden passenger in other people’s trucks twice. So I don’t have the wealth of knowledge it takes to have an opinion about that.

How big are these whoops that you can’t see the trail beyond the one in front of you when you crest the one before it? Did they grow these whoops with magic whoop beans from the guy that jack bought his bean stock beans from?

For me visibility becomes an issue when you crest a long uphill and aren’t sure what’s beyond that. Everyone slows down for those.

Except Alex.

 

@Spvrtan is she talking about you? Or did you not make the cut either?

 

I'd describe these as big enough that your truck starts bucking like a bronco by about the third one.

On another note, will you be joining us? I hear you have a pretty BA LT setup.

 

So visibility is not the main concern at that point. Lol.

Regrettably I will be at a wedding. Well not regrettably. I’m very happy for the couple. But you get what I’m saying.

 

haha I've gotten it "wrong" more than once. But depends on your definition of "wrong"

Even when I flopped it, I flipped it back over, swapped tires, and was ready to roll in about 30 min. I even finished the trip, another 3 days of hard wheeling.

The thing is, if you're not pushing limits, how do you ever know what the limit is???

But dont do anything wreckless or dangerous. I'm definitely not willing to total The Truck. Its a fine line, but off road hobbies are more fun at the limit.

 

I drive by feel a lot of the time.

Dead serious

 

Is that like The Force?

 

I do too. I “feel” my truck bottom out when I go too fast over obstacles all the time.

 

I feel like I gotta drive this truck to work on monday.....

 

I drive by braille a lot too. Because I close my eyes when I pray.

 

I drive by the screams of my passengers...

 

I'm not even in your truck and I scream when you drive.

 

Oh good, I thought I was the only one who screams

 

If it’s you daily definitely don’t follow @osidepunker or any of the SGU ur daily will be down for a while lol

 

Not true. You can follow, just don’t try to keep up.

 

True true

 

Mike was with us on the fateful bombing run at Superstition last year. He knows how SGU rolls.

 

Why do I not see your name as going??!!

 

Baseball duties have my hands tied Saturday until after 1 and Sunday I’m keeping my eyes open to see if maybe I can get there early to meet up with you guys.

 

No lie, that was so much fucking fun! Those whoops were the perfect size and spread for my measly 2.5 mid travel suspension. Aside from the stupid cooler flipping over 40-50 through them was money, even with the camper shell. Oh, I cracked the fiberglass where it mounts on that run

 

We wait for everyone at the turns haha

 

was that the day they drops bombs on us???

 

That was the day.

Speaking of that. Remember the lonely Tacoma by himself that stuffed the front end into a big hole.