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12-13-2018, 08:42 AM | #1 |
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It was a nice day for a drive..
I had a Christmas tree tag and figured I'd go fill it. But the drive was just too much fun. If you look carefully at the mountain behind me, the snow is unbroken. I left it that way. That peak is around 11,000 ft. I'm probably at 10,000.
Mt Taylor and La Mosca by B Sanders, on Flickr Lots of blue spruce. I should have come up in the summer and tied a ribbon around one. It was hard to tell what their bases were like under the snow. 20181208_122959-EFFECTS by B Sanders, on Flickr
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12-13-2018, 08:55 AM | #2 |
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That's beautiful up there! I really like the setup on your Xterra too.
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12-13-2018, 11:47 AM | #3 |
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Beautiful.
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12-13-2018, 02:53 PM | #4 |
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Beautomous...
But, you can keep the white crap. Brian
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12-13-2018, 03:01 PM | #5 |
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Nice !
Did you get stuck anywhere?
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12-13-2018, 05:05 PM | #6 |
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I wish I had taken more pictures. In the bottom picture, you can see tracks on the right side. Those were deer tracks.
There were a lot of elk tracks around, too. My company drilled anchor holes for the towers in the background. They had to be able to withstand 200 mph winds. They have recorded 180mph winds up there. I had my big drill rig and air compressor up there for that job. The fire watch tower is made of rock. I didn't get stuck anywhere. I didn't even slip and slide anywhere. I credit that to the tires - BFG KO2's. Plus, I aired them down to 18psi. Last time I was up there in that same spot, in the snow, I had Big O Bigfoot AT's on and could not get all the way up there without spinning out. Didn't have the winch back then, but now I do, and didn't need it. Coming back down, I took a road I had never traveled. After reviewing my dash cam footage last night, it seems to have not recorded the hairiest portion of the trail where I banged the skid plates a few times on boulders and slammed the rock sliders a couple times. Next time I won't be so lazy and will just hook up the Go Pro. Going up back up that newly found road will be a lot more challenging that going down it was, but I will wait until it dries out, or go up early enough that it might still be frozen. |
12-13-2018, 07:29 PM | #7 |
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WOW!......Very nice Sanders.
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12-15-2018, 08:25 AM | #8 |
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Nice blue sky. Beautiful.
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12-15-2018, 09:39 AM | #9 |
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Great scenery. Lucky the snow was not deep yet.
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