Mojave Road Jonny B Memorial 2012 Run

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October 2012

Just got back about an hour ago. What a trip.

4 Trucks and a dirtbike.
9 People over Thursday night - this AM.


I left the house looking like this

We all met up @ Barstow Del about 9:30 pm Thursday.

filled up at flying J then headed out to Afton Last gas station we figured might as well top up again ( 30 min down the road) Pulled up to some great pricing. Pumps were all shut off.

Next stop was the Water Crossing in Afton canyon. was probably 18 inch deep or so.

Scotty going for it

Then Mikey in Bronco.. 37s son!

Jesse airing down Mel (this is her 3rd time driving Mojave road In her stock 2wd tacoma)

We Passed through Afton Pretty quickly in hopes of setting up camp soon rather than later. ended up getting a little bit spilt up then regrouping and just camping in the middle or the open desert...

 

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Friday Am I slithered out of the tent cot to a pretty epic view of Mountains

Mikey decided to piss right off his balcony

Stunned bunny

Packed up our stuff and hit the trail.

Made quick work of the Dunes leaving Afton

Into the lake bed. It was a little bit muddy.

posted up after lake bed

Lava Tubes

Had to repack melissa Cooler after she channeled RG through the Sand wash
Have a look at the red bull can

Then we took a little detour from the norm

Lava Teepee

 

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Lava teepee Bernie for Flaunt.

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Epic View

Lunch Time at the top of a mine.

Lava Tube from outside

Dead bunny some one installed at the lava tube sign

Thumper

 

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This motor was massive

Crappy Fab

 

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All roses right?
Just after a long rough section... We pull off and re group decide we aren't going to push it all the way to Jonny's Memorial Site. We have our campsite that we stayed at in April off black canyon.
We all take off. 3 miles up the road. Get a call over the radio. Randy lost his shifter on his bike. What? What do you mean? It's gone it feel off somewhere between where we stopped after the road crossing and where he is. FAWK ok ill spin around a see if we can spot it. Scotty, steven, Randy,Kayla and I trolled the road. 3 times going 5mph ... found all kinds of shit snake, other broken parts, Spiders. No Shifter.

So he road it to camp in 5th lol

Mikey and a few of the guys attemped to fix it. could have made it work if it was 100% necessary but didnt want to mangle anything and Randy wasnt really into running it with a makeshift shifter.
So we BBQ'd and got pitted around the fire, RC Rock Crawling

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Getting a ton of hot pixels( red and blue dots) pretty sure my 20d is about as clapped out as my leaf springs.

END OF FRIDAY...

 

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Thanks Guys This Party is just getting started. That was just Friday

Tommy lol we could have used that intel. live and learn.

Mati - flaunt was busy caging trucks and being sick.

Anyways.

Good Morning Saturday

After Breakfast now we had to make a decision on the bike.
options were put the bike back on the hitch carrier which would have slowed the truck down even more or load it up in The Mouse.
Every one took my heavy stuff ( water, gas can, tent cot, Tools, Firewood, etc. )

We loaded that bitch up.

PRERUNNERS BUILT FOR DIRT BIKES WHATS UP!

Blue chasing some tail

RUNNNNN IT!

Cool everyone just made it work... We were all loaded to the gills.

We dont even get 100 Yards away from Camp Mikey is already sending it! New Desktop background shots for Scotty and Mikey.

Alright enough playing around. We needed to turn and burn and make up some serious time if we were gunna make it all the way to ludlow as planned.
Next stop was The Penny Can and school bus.
We made quick work of the Joshua Tree forest.

School Bus Stop

Miss you buddy

 

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Having a look under the hood

Honey Badger

DP10s! GEtting it

She'll Saw of 95 % of the forum on Dirt miles haha GET IT GIRL!

Next Stop we made was to the site where we put Jonny's memorial. To our dismay they had been washed away in a major rainstorm. We have plans to make something bigger and better for next trip

Now we headed off Mojave road to a path Scotty (sdecurti) put together...Headed to Fenner gas up.

We made a few stops along the way.
Abandon Mines.

 

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Gassed up in Fenner. Now With our sites set on Kelso dunes as a potential camp site. We were headed into uncharted territory.


The we started to Climb

And climbed some more.

At the top was epic!

 

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kayla needs to clean her nails. geez how gross! hahah

Thats my hand and hammered phone.



Kelso Dunes turned out to be a bust... Closed to OHV So we pressed on.

Got to Camp. which was a right turn down a randoms sand wash in the middle of nowhere.

BBQ, Fire, RC Crawling. Honey Badger ( olive) trolling for Trantulas.

Burning Excess wood, Fire Jumping.

Kayla and I had to be outta there early to so we hit the rack early.... everyone being the drunk fawks they are... carried on until the wee hours every soo often " ELLLLLLLLLLLLLIOTTTTTT you little bitch get out here"....

So 545 am rolled around we had 20 miles of dirt to handle into ludlow. Before we could hit the highway 40 into Barstow...

So I did the only logical thing 1st gear pinned all the way around camp with the hella horns going and all 6 lights fired up. LOL'd and hit the pike. Sunrise Dirt Miles.

Took us about 40 mins to get to ludlow we where taking it pretty slow as we were only one truck.
Ludlow Aired up at the DQ... Barstow del.... straight on tell morning. was home by 11!

Pulled back into the driveway. LOL

Only carnage other than needing new leaf springs or atleast a rearch.

Pass Side Head light bulb Dnf'd lol and its already fixed.

Good Times!