Ken,
I live in Colorado and read your notes about your planned trip with
glee.
I love a good 4by trail, but will doubly caution you about the really good
ones. Please bring the Suburban!
I can show you quite a few places up in those Rockies where a stuck jeep
is left because it is just too expensive to hire the heavy lifting
helicopter to get it out. Honest!
These Jeeps usually get brought out a part at a time. Sometimes even by
the owner. There are roads that look good on the map that turn into steep
sided 500 foot drops with no place to turn around, it's forward or bust,
and there just may be someone coming the other way and you will have to
back down the mountain as the other fellow will find it near impossible to
back up the mountain due to visibility problems.
Then there is the problem of communications...It is really hard to get a
phone link from the bottom of a cut. Keeping in mind that the bottom of a
cut in the mountains is usually a place for water to collect.
I can send you a map with some of the better and more sane 4x4 trails
marked if you wish. Might make the trip more fun....
Please bring the Suburban!
Regards,
Bryant in COLORado
BTW: Bring the Oly things as well, might find a shot or two up there! I
have some shots on my web site of the San Luis Valley in Park County,
Colorado if you want to take a peek...
www"//http.diac.com/~ardvarrk
Go to Interesting Spaces, and then Bryant's Pictures....
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From: Ken Norton <image66@xxxxxxx>
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] Beattie Intenscreen and Bogen Comments (and
Zuikoholism)....
Date: Wednesday, May 13, 1998 5:03 PM
>Sounds like a great way/place to spend some time. Hope the pix are
>great. And as for Zuiko habit: some of us have $35,000 Tahoes and
>Suburbans to drag our Zuikos around in!
Hmm. Since getting my wife a Jeep Cherokee a few weeks ago to compliment
the monster 4wd Suburban, I must say that both are almost perfect "camera
cases."
Plan to drag the Zuikos out to Colorado next month in either of the red
beasts for some mountain crawling. Big question is which vehicle to take.
Do we take the Suburban and travel for the 1.5 weeks in comfort and not
attack some of the gnarlier trails or do we cram into the Jeep and seek out
greater adventure? Or do I take the advice of a friend of mine who says
that the Suburban will take me anywhere that I should be bringing my
pregnant wife to? Hmm... 6 months pregnant and mountain trails... Maybe
a
trip to the beach would be better...
Ken (wants real 4wd trails) Norton
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