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Started using my callsign as my online identity back in... 2001? (At FSGA). So I've stuck with it for convenience, not because I love it. Was at Carson, PCSd away for 2 years, now back and living...

Bill, I will, but don't consider it likely. Have no plans on getting rid of this truck, but if I do I'll probably sell the ARB separately (or keep it to put on a new-to-me 80) so I'm keeping the...

And while we'll waiting for next season.. Christmas came early for daddy.. courtesy of local CL stalking I finally found a used ARB ;)
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M.E. Sorry for the delay answering your post. I have no idea how much clearance my truck has.. have not measured, but my tires are only 285/75/16 so, not a huge difference over stock. I don't...

haven't checked in on this thread in a long time... if Richie is still around.. the RTT worked out well. It is snug for us, but wife and I are both thin. Even though I'm tall, my son was able to...

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t312/Bushmaster6/Travel/Colorado%20Passes%20Summer%2012/201207HaydenPassnilawafer-1.jpg

we share a hometown (or at least where we live)... I'm going to shoot for a few more day trips/weekends before the passes start closing, maybe an overnighter as well.. shoot a note if you want to...

I grew up as the 4th of 5 sons that spent many an hour on long road trips in the "way back" of a 1970 Plymouth Fury wagon.. I know that tailgating sentiment well. My wife and I have discussed that...

drove the highway back down through Breckenridge, Hoosier Pass,through Alma and took the easterly entrance to Mosquito Pass, the highest passable road in the US (13,185 ft)...

lower mine...

we continued further up the trail to it's terminus, stopped for lunch (cancelled by a sudden electric storm) and took a few pics:
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I probably took about 300 pictures here, but passing on just a few shots from the mine ruins... pretty cool site.

A couple of observations on mines/ruins in general..
1. I think it's great how...

next day was headed up into Horseshoe basin (pass from West to east is closed)

trail comes out of Montezuma again and follows Peru Creek... if you're not sure if you have the right entry point,...

oops, double posted

next day we took the highway around via Fairplay and up through Breckenridge and Dillon, through Montezuma, and then to Webster Pass' western entry:

Montezuma one of the many small mountain towns...

long story but we did NOT cross Webster pass from the east.. the gulch on the west side has a very narrow/tight road leading to the pass, and the majority of traffic was coming DOWN hill at the time...

Hayden Pass crosses the Sangre de Cristo range

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Stopped on the east side...

I do a pretty poor job of chronicling our day trips, as I tend to be focused on the driving, and we also take our two (young) kids with us so, alot of my attention is on keeping them asleep/happy and...

stitched together 4 or 5 pics to get this SE view from near the Pass.. my photo skills are not great, but you could clearly see all the way to Pike's Peak from the Pass, which is impressive as it's a...

here's a few pics from a 4-day camping/trail trip that my wife and I took our kids (age 3 and 1) on last week...

ruins on the Alma approach side, downslope from the London Mine:
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and Boreas Pass heading west into Breck, can be done in any car...
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JD... looking good man.. didn't check over on the "8" forum to see if you've cross-posted yet. I like that rear swing out, are you considering a 2 or 3 step ladder coming up out of it for access to...

thanks for the input..

I'm leaning toward a more road-trip, car camping trip, occassional hotel/cabin trip route that would take us up to Pisgah/Nantahala/Great Smokies and perhaps include camping...

agreed, and my comment wasn't intended as accusatory.. perhaps better phrased as "Western Centric", for all the same reasons you posted.. heck, I'M western biased (I miss living in Colorado!)

your rig will be fine on most of them.. get one of the Colorado guide books/backcountry trail books off Amazon and start your planning.. I took my FZJ80 over Engineer pass with wife and a 6 month old...

I went up the east side, hit the top and turned around to make it home to Colorado Springs (when I was living there).. road condition on my trip, particularly at the top, was rough.. my CJ was...