| ...things get a little wonky when the passenger front drops into the tub putting the rocker into the rocks.
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| Discretion being the better part of valor, and wanting to wheel the rest of the day, Alan decides to back it out of the obstacle.
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| A brief pause in the narrative to take a look at some 'Zuki engineering! Not wanting to go the usual 'Zuki Z-link route (he's running crossover steering with a Redneck Ram) he chose to get showy with his wiring, track bar bracket, and body mounts!
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| Of course I'm one to talk... That morning I showed up at Tony's shop, ready for the road trip to the slab, missing a pitman arm nut! Not to mention a hemorrhaging P/S pump and a fast leak in one front tire!
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| When the Sammi started to tip and blow a bead at the same time as Max strapped it out backwards a crowd developed to take in the impending carnage.
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| Well, at least until Joe, Elliot, and Rick stepped in.
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| So -that's- why they call it a turtle neck! The weather was warm enough that I went swimming farther up river. The water was COLD! Let's just say this wasn't the only turtle neck action going on!
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| We eventually wound our way up-river farther than I'd ever been. This is a big rock formation under the power line that crosses the river. The pseudo basenji was so distraught over loosing the slab for wheeling that he contemplated throwing himself over the precipice into the jagged rocks and frigid water below.
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| More than once!
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| After sitting on top of the rock until I got lonely, I went back to the last crossing to see what was holding everybody up. For some reason people were diving into a quicksand crossing like lemmings.
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| While folks were sorting that out, I collected Max and Alan for a quick run up river. We made it up to where a rancher was mining sand and had a fence across the river before calling it quits and heading back...
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| Not ready to go gently into that dark night, a few of us were back out on new year's eve. Here Grant starts over the set of obstacles beside that quicksand crossing that bogged the group down last trip.
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