Recap?

[ProHorn CompMetal]

Hai guys! I've been out west since xmas wheeling my BMW. I don't feel like going back through the last 2 weeks of threads so can somebody give me a recap of what happened on SiS while I was gone? kthxbai.

Pics 'cuz it did happen:

[littlelegs13]

nice pic

where did you go exactly

[Emuhlea]

wow the view is amazing

[ProHorn CompMetal]

Jan 8, 2009 14:42:05 GMT -5 littlelegs13 said:

nice pic

where did you go exactly

Down through Kentucky, across the north end of Texas, to Grand Canyon, across Mojave Desert, through Death Valley, to Mt Whitney, then back across Death Valley, through Vegas, then up through Utah, across Colorado, and home. Took the BMW because 37mpg > 12mpg.

Once I install a Mr Fusion on the Jeep for better milage I'm going to have to bring it to Death Valley. The park is the size of the entire state of Connecticut, lots of the roads in it are "4x4 only" (including a few extra scary ones labelled "short wheelbase only"), you can camp just about anywhere you want, and in the winter daytime temps are in the 60's rather than 120+. It's not all flat desert either, there's an 11,000+ foot mountain range right in the middle. Check out the "Backcountry Road" map: www.nps.gov/deva/planyourvisit/upload/Backcountry%20Roads-2.pdf

[Rico]

OK so Riot is still welll Riot.

I came back

I think Will turned gay and now wants a Subaru......(that's what I hear)

Rich got another XJ

Dave is making a Hobobecue for the next M&G

Burton got a comanche that looks to be 1cleanTj's at some point.

Oh yeah I still dont know anyone's real names. because... the internet is serious

I'll let someone else go from here

[ProHorn CompMetal]

Death Valley teaser pic. I'll post a link to a full album once I get it online.

Where I'm standing is at +5,000'.
The flat part with the itty bitty road is at -200'.
The mountains that disappear into the clouds are at +11,000'.

[Riot]

I love that I was the first person on your recap Rico, I always knew I was your favorite.

[Rico]

Man Chris only 6 posts in and you had Gay it up already..... this thread is fucked

[littlelegs13]

pics are gorgeous

[Riot]

Jan 8, 2009 15:21:51 GMT -5 littlelegs13 said:

pics are gorgeous

So is the guy who made post 6#

[Pedro]

umm meet and greet went well with awesome bacon and floxzors
cody, will, and phil made a funny movie called "cheap shot"
the site colors changed to christmas theme
phil had his first car bomb

and thats all i remember

[CumminsJeep]

sique pics!!!!

[Chaos]

Shane made bitchin Chili for the M&G and I fell going up the stairs at the M&G as well

[Quartney]

it look warm there...id like to go lol

[ProHorn CompMetal]

Jan 8, 2009 18:04:50 GMT -5 Quartney said:

it look warm there...id like to go lol

Negative. In both of those pics the temperature was hovering around freezing. At night it was dropping down into the single digits. Personally I'd rather deal with the cold than heat though, you can always add another layer to keep warm but there's nothing you can do to cool off when it's 120 degrees (which was the temp the last time I was in Death Valley in early June).

Interesting fact: "Desert" really only means a place where there is little precipitation and has nothing to do with temperature, and Antarctica is technically a desert. There is very little precipitation there, it just so happens that due to the cold temperatures it always falls as snow and never melts so it just keeps piling up slowly year after year.