West Coast Camp Commander 2011 Pictures & Tales

[HueyPilotVN]

Teaser Pictures.

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Jon changing his flat
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actually Jon watching Tymac change his tire

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[pjmjr508]

Nice pic's

[bjamrow]

Glad we made it up for the day...sorry we couldn't stay longer - but hey, it was worth spending 17 hours straight in the XK, not sure the kids agree though :) Hope you guys have a great rest of the week.

[Sal-XK]

Looks like a good turnout thanks for posting some pics for us.

[LWM]

I want to start by thanking all the members who were able to make it, the turn out was great and it was great to see so many friends again and too meet a few new ones as well. Members in attendance included:

1) Bjamrow
2) Brendon (+3)
3) HueyPilot (+3)
4) Knappster (+1)
5) Ped (+1)
6)RockyMountainCanary (+3)
7) Strokez (+1)
8) TrialByire (+2)
9) Tymac (+3)

We were able to cover many of the trails and on a couplke occassions split into dierent groups so that those who wanted to try some of the more difficult trails were able to do that without others being too concerned with trail damage. There was minor damage to a couple of rigs but overall things went very well and all members, their families & frineds and all XK's got through the event in one piece.

If awards were to be given I think I would get the one for the most breakage and thankfully it was all minor; I lost power to my radio (no CB communication), tore the coolant line off for the back heater allowing three gallons of coolant to escape, flat tire, tore off a grounding strap & lost the top bolt in a rear shock.

Many of us arrived at the Buena Vista KOA on Sunday night and other arrived Monday.

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Monday we ran two trails, most members ran the Fourmile Area in the morning for a total of 25 miles with a second more difficult trail in the afternoon called Chinaman Pass (I am sure members will tell their stores as soon as they get home and setteled in).

[LWM]

Tuesday was a real long day (trails take twice as long as the book says) and we coved four of the trails in one trail ride.

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The first stretch of road took us down the highway to the ghosttown of St. Elmo, from there we hit the following trails:

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Tincup Pass Trail; 12,154 feet / 12.4 miles

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Cumberland Pass Trail; 12,015 feet / 15.7 miles


Alpine Tunnel Road; 11,597 feet / 9.5 miles

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Handcock Pass Trail; 12,140 feet / 9.3 miles

for a total of approximately 45 miles

[LWM]

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[LWM]

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[LWM]

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[LWM]

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[LWM]

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[Sal-XK]

Man that scenery is just awesome!

[pjmjr508]

I agree. Still not happy that I had to miss because work. Keep the pics coming and looks like a blast!!

[LWM]

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[LWM]

On Wednesday we deceided to take on a trail that the USFS indicated was CLOSED! The Mosquito Pass Trail is schedualed to open mid August but we will all be long gone by then so we thought we would head up there and look at it and see what could be done.

I took many photos but they are on my cell phone, I will upload them when I learn how and I am sure many others will post theirs as well.

Mosquito Pass Trail is the highest pass accessable by motor vehicle in the United States at 13,186 feet and the trail runs approximately 16.7 miles.

[LWM]

Wednesday night was the awards dinner:

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RMC bought Brendon a beer for his surviving the Mosquito Pass Trail

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[LWM]

A special Thanks to Discount Tire for the goodie bags that everyone received (I promised Discount Tire I would get a photo of everyone with their bags but I forgot, my appologies).

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[LWM]

Thursday many of the members headed out early in the morning but those that stayed behind hit the trails one last time.

Two members, TrialByFire and Ped headed out early to hit Grizzly Pass (I hope they post some great photos). RockyMountainCanary & Knappster headed out to Old Monarch Pass Road, Tomichi Pass Trail & Handcock Pass Trail.

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Old Monarch Pass Road: 11,375 feet / 10.3 miles

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Tomichi Pass Trail: 12,020 feet / 15.9 miles

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Handcock Pass Trail; 12,140 feet / 9.3 miles

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[LWM]

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[strokeZ]

Thanks to Jon and all others who helped put this event together! The hard work was definitely worth it. We decided to go the distance to home in one shot and could not wait to upload some pics tonight. I will post them as soon as I can. Here are some teasers:

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And lastly - TrialbyFire's response to "you can't do that with that Jeep":

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[Sal-XK]

And lastly - TrialbyFire's response to "you can't do that with that Jeep":


Hahahah LMAO I love it man that's awesome bro

[Tymac]

Reserving my spot to post pics and many videos, but you'll have to wait until Sunday night. Long drive home starts later today.

[strokeZ]

More time lapse of Chinaman Gulch....

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[strokeZ]

Chinaman Gulch again.....

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[TrialByFire]

Awesome, bro. Glad you made it home. It was great wheeling with you!
I'll try to get some pics posted tonight.

[strokeZ]

same here buddy - too bad its only once per year......guess we can change that if we want!

[TrialByFire]

Here are some of my photos. Unfortunately, the ones of the snow crossing on Mosquito Pass didn't come out but I'm sure other folks have lots of good ones. That one deserves a good video anyway!

Here is the group from the easy morning run of Day 1.
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Afternoon run of Chinaman Gulch
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Swaybar discos didn't help on this one.
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More to come...

[LWM]

Love the photos... Keep them coming!

I will post more when I get home. We stopped at the KOA just north of Albuquerque and will head on to Phoenix in the morning.

[Sal-XK]

Ya keep them coming

[TrialByFire]

Love the photos... Keep them coming!

I will post more when I get home. We stopped at the KOA just north of Albuquerque and will head on to Phoenix in the morning.

Have a safe ride home. Great job organizing, Jon! The family and I had a very memorable and enjoyable time, and this is one newbie that will be back next year!

BTW, I made good use of the air kit that Huey put together after my run of Grizzly Lake on Thursday. It worked great!

And now for more photos.

Day 2: Mountain passes, mines, ghost towns and more gorgeous scenery than a person can stand.
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Some happy campers on Hancock Pass
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The way back down.
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Day 3: Mosquito Pass (and yes, it did have mosquitos!)

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Day 4: Grizzley Lake
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I didn't get any pictures of the lake but Ped will have some good ones.

[ped4599]

Got Home last night (Sat). Was good to see you all again and meet a few more people. We had an awesome time. I was too tired to organize any photos so i just dumped everything i had so far to the following link. THANK YOU to Bills grandson for taking many of the photos on Chinaman. I handed him my camera and and he fired away while we navigated the terrain. We have tons of awesome video too, but it will take while to get it all ready to view.

I have tons of pics of all the members on the trail taxing their XKs!
Here is the link for my photos: WCCC11 https://picasaweb.google.com/ped4599/WCCC11?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCLzVvvrZxa2HKQ&feat=directlink


My brother and I did a lot of fun stuff this week:
(few teasers)
First time ever rafting. Bill's grand kids went in the same boat with us. it was such a Blast!

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We made the Chinaman Gulch Loop!

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[ped4599]

Playing in the snow!

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Trialbyfire's group and My brother and I, made it all the way to Grizzly Lake. it was a pretty crazy trail. Once we got there, they went back down and we climbed (not hiked) to the peak of the mountain along the lake. We made the climb to the peak up and back in 4 hours and 15 min. It was a butt kicker to say the least, but we made it up and back with no injurys.


Here are a few of the "Jeep portion" of the climb. I am glad Trailbyfire was there to vouch for how steep and rugged this was. The harsh winter seems to have really ripped the trail up.
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[LWM]

Playing in the snow!

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I like this photo!

[ped4599]

If you follow that link above and hit the fullsize button on any photo you should be able to down load the photos that you want from what I have.

[pjmjr508]

a lot of great shots

[Holaday07 4.7]

That looks great, really good pics. I am soo mad I missed out on this.

[07JeepXK]

Looks like you guys had fun!

[Tymac]

Comparing the quality of my pics to Ped's I really wish I would have brought my Canon I used the last 2 years. The first one is a teaser. I started working on a videography of pics taken during the trip. Got tired last night, but I'll finish it tonight then I'll start working on combining the videos taken during the Mosquito snowfield crossing and a couple of vids from Chinaman Gulch.

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[Tymac]

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[Tymac]

For some unknown reason a few of the pics were removed during the upload. I'll chec it and repair if I can. Also the audio is missing and it was their audio.

[Sal-XK]

For some unknown reason a few of the pics were removed during the upload. I'll chec it and repair if I can. Also the audio is missing and it was their audio.

If you used restricted music in your video youtube will drop that portion of your video or drop the entire audio for the video. Some music can be inserted and youtube puts a link to purchase that music by your video. My last video I lost 3 minuets of the end because I used Zac brown band on the end.

[cico7]

I had some videos from last Flagpole and I got a warning from youtube that I had used copyrighted material in my video and the video was not accessible.
I had no idea what they were talking about so I went and watched my saved copy. The mic had picked up music
playing on the radio and I guess they thought I was pirating it. I used thier link to replace the sound with something else.

[El Cid]

Looks like some great rides, folks.

(And wonderful to see so many 4xGuard parts, too!)