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Greetings from Minnesota. I recently joined the AEV Forum after years of "lurking" and gaining knowledge from it's members. I thought I should finally make a post.
Last summer I bit the bullet and bought a new 2014 JK Unlimited Rubicon. Weeks later, I outfitted it with all of the cool AEV products I'd been drooling over for years. When the option to take a trip to Colorado with my buddies came up last fall, I jumped.
With less than 2000 miles on the new Jeep, three of us headed to Estes Park, CO and met our fourth there. We wheeled by day and camped by night for about 2 days. I think the T-33 trail is where the Rubicon had its first encounter with any sort of challenge and left a little belly paint on the rocks. We had rain the entire time wheeling in CO and the trail was slick. After realizing the rain was going to pick up and turn to snow the rest of the week, the group voted to make the trip to Moab for dryer grounds. The camping situation more or less dictated the move for two of us, as the other two "Jeep Camped" and stayed dry.
This was my first trip to Moab and it did not disappoint. We got in late on our first night and stayed at a small campsite on Hwy 128. Even though it was almost midnight and we were tired from driving, we stayed up and took some incredible full moon night shots of the buttes near the camp site. The bonus of desert camping was that within hours all of our gear dried out.
The following day we staked claim to a camp site at the Sand Flats Rec. Area, set up camp and went wheeling. Cane Creek took most of the day and we retired to camp early to recover. The following day we hunted for mines, did some exploring and hiking near Miner's Basin and wheeled Poison Spider in the afternoon. After dinner, two of us decided to explore Hell's Revenge in the dark. This turned out to be quite the experience! The view of the night's sky was breathtaking and we met up with local legend Dan Mick and his son. At this point we had been running a pretty hard pace and decided to spend the next day wheeling 7 Mile Rim at a leisurely pace.
The return trip back to Minnesota took about 17.5 hours straight through and wasn't too bad. The Jeep pulled 19.4 mpg (19.2 mpg on paper, 32 psi) and left me wanting for little. Fortunately, my wife saw the photos and video and insists we go back!
Pictures when I figure out how to post them. { Posted }
EPJK
Last summer I bit the bullet and bought a new 2014 JK Unlimited Rubicon. Weeks later, I outfitted it with all of the cool AEV products I'd been drooling over for years. When the option to take a trip to Colorado with my buddies came up last fall, I jumped.
With less than 2000 miles on the new Jeep, three of us headed to Estes Park, CO and met our fourth there. We wheeled by day and camped by night for about 2 days. I think the T-33 trail is where the Rubicon had its first encounter with any sort of challenge and left a little belly paint on the rocks. We had rain the entire time wheeling in CO and the trail was slick. After realizing the rain was going to pick up and turn to snow the rest of the week, the group voted to make the trip to Moab for dryer grounds. The camping situation more or less dictated the move for two of us, as the other two "Jeep Camped" and stayed dry.
This was my first trip to Moab and it did not disappoint. We got in late on our first night and stayed at a small campsite on Hwy 128. Even though it was almost midnight and we were tired from driving, we stayed up and took some incredible full moon night shots of the buttes near the camp site. The bonus of desert camping was that within hours all of our gear dried out.
The following day we staked claim to a camp site at the Sand Flats Rec. Area, set up camp and went wheeling. Cane Creek took most of the day and we retired to camp early to recover. The following day we hunted for mines, did some exploring and hiking near Miner's Basin and wheeled Poison Spider in the afternoon. After dinner, two of us decided to explore Hell's Revenge in the dark. This turned out to be quite the experience! The view of the night's sky was breathtaking and we met up with local legend Dan Mick and his son. At this point we had been running a pretty hard pace and decided to spend the next day wheeling 7 Mile Rim at a leisurely pace.
The return trip back to Minnesota took about 17.5 hours straight through and wasn't too bad. The Jeep pulled 19.4 mpg (19.2 mpg on paper, 32 psi) and left me wanting for little. Fortunately, my wife saw the photos and video and insists we go back!
Pictures when I figure out how to post them. { Posted }
EPJK
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