SUMMER NIGHT RUN!! Ocotillo Wells 7/5/14

Gabe, I want to see this thing in person. Let's go.

 

Wheres the ranger station from this am pm gas station
2084 s marina dr salton ca 92274?

 

Off road or on.

It's off the 78. If your on google maps look at split Mtn rd. and 78. It's just west of that.

 

Which ranger station is everybody meeting at?

 

5172 California 78,Borrego Springs, CA 92004

 

Cool thank you!

 

Wish I could go. Was greasing u joints yesterday and noticed that my front right FOX is pissing fluid everywhere!

 

Rolling out of socal in a few hours here. See you gents tonight!

 

Sick! Can't wait to see it!

 

Leaving San Marcos soon... Ready, set, let's FOUR WHEEL DRIVE!

 

Leading the convoy out of OC right now. 4 trucks and we are passing Pendleton. Set y'all soon!

 

Y'all are nuts. Driving that far for one night. I love Ocotillo! but man.
I use to do bonzi s.

 

We're one step short of nuts...passionate.

 

Epic Night Run indeed! Good people in good trucks... only a couple of incidents, but nothing we couldn't handle in the dark!

2 am was 93ºF, but it was a dry heat.

We got to sleep by 4 am and up by 7 am... That's all you need!

Here are the photos I took, some are blurry, 3 taken with my phone, the bighorn sheep was right off Hwy. 78 at the Narrows, where we took a leak break... Pretty cool, eh?

Thank you for organizing the trip... even with the 4 runs on the Pole Line Road and pulling the GMC out of the same sand, twice!

Viva Baja in the USA!



































O6HAOLE (Mathew) really put his recent experience to good use at 2 am this morning!







6:30 am Sunday (this) Morning.



Fish Creek may indeed have fish, since I have never seen water in it before!



Split Mountain Road at Fish Creek, northbound.







That's the ticket to coming home in one piece... 4WD and stock suspension... but I had to keep it under 100 while off roading!

Thank you everyone, we had fun... 06HAOLE will get his truck running soon, I am sure... He and his amigo Nick were great co-drivers and are welcome in my Tacoma anytime!

 

David, How the hell you keep yours so clean runnin thru that wash??
This is what mine looked like at 6am this morning

 

Looks like there was a lot of fun had. Finishing up my last couple things to get back in the dirt

 

Well, I actually TRIED to not cover it with mud (noticed how I hung back last night?)!

I JUST NOW got home from the...

1) Do-it-yourself car wash... dropped maybe $15 in quarters and under the truck to try and get as much mud as possible off of it... really wore me out (of course I only got 2 1/2 hour of sleep this morning)!!! After which I drove it to...

2) Full service car wash, $21 'Gold' Wash.

Looking forward to seeing all the photos the others took out there... What a fun night in the desert!

 

Thanks for letting me and Nick go on the run with you David. It was a blast and I can't wait to go back.


Gabe your truck is sick and that was a minor shakedown issue. I was just glad to lend a hand.

My bump stop got wedged underneath the strike pad on my first LT shakedown with the old truck. The whole side of my truck was down until I cut the strike pad in half. All because I didn't understand that I needed to cycle the leaf pack. That was a shitty day. Lol

It was great to meet everybody else as well. Thanks to Matt for putting it together!!

 

Ditto!

Hey, so where is everyone else's photos/ trip report??? Or were most of the others not TWers?

If they are on another forum, please add links here... GRACIAS!

 

Best I got with my phone.