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COMPLETED: TECORE VII - THE AFTERMATH

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by HARDTRAILZ » Tue Oct 16, 2012 10:58 pm

Sometimes ya gotta go :cheers:
I hate to advocate weird chemicals, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone...but
they've always worked for me.
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by Moots1288 » Tue Oct 16, 2012 11:30 pm

It would have been cool to get a good pic of the truck but Kyle just couldn't hold it in.
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by HARDTRAILZ » Tue Oct 16, 2012 11:40 pm

I do thank y'all for putting up w my frequent piss breaks but a little infection in the bladder is no excuse to miss tecore.
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by v7guy » Tue Oct 16, 2012 11:41 pm

Kyle is putting that cranberry juice to work
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by Trail X » Wed Oct 17, 2012 8:17 am

Kyle, gotta say, that white trasharoo really works with the white truck, I didn't really notice how well it worked until I saw that last picture.


Ok, so here are a few pictures to start with (beware!):

View of the stars - saw 7 shooting stars this night, never did capture one on the camera:
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Milky Way:
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Campsite #1 (not the normal meadow knob)
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Decending the mountain
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"The Overlook"
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The flex tester rock (Kyle is disconnected in the rear only):
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Good view of Mike's new product (Can I get one in aluminum?!):
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More flex testing (I am disconnected in the front only):
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That's it so far... got a few more to post, just ran out of time to edit last night.
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by HARDTRAILZ » Wed Oct 17, 2012 8:23 am

Nice pics!
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by NC_IslandRunner » Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:05 am

Cool pics James!
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by SaltWaterDrinker » Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:19 am

Raw unedited grabs (in an attempted order):

Staging:
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Departures:
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Pee break:
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Air down:
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Crawling:
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Behind the beast:
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Traversing:
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That's all for now. I'll leave part two for another post as to not kill everyone.
For my reference, I left off at 4997.
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by SaltWaterDrinker » Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:25 am

I have roughly over 730 pictures that are "good to submit..."
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by dirty anton » Wed Oct 17, 2012 10:01 am

You guys got some great pictures! I cant really add any that havent already bin taken. Good stuff!
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by dirty anton » Wed Oct 17, 2012 10:11 am

James that milky way picture is unbelievable! :awesome:
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by onelow1ton » Wed Oct 17, 2012 10:50 am

Great pix guys , I so wish I could of had a sitter so I could have gone with you guys ! I'll be at the next one for sure , I'm sad I missed this one . I had a good time with all the jeeps but would have been way better with you guys
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by bartonmd » Wed Oct 17, 2012 1:26 pm

onelow1ton wrote:Great pix guys , I so wish I could of had a sitter so I could have gone with you guys ! I'll be at the next one for sure , I'm sad I missed this one . I had a good time with all the jeeps but would have been way better with you guys


Would have been much less of a parade with us, that's for sure! How did you guys get anywhere? You were like the third group of 20+ Jeeps...

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by dvanbramer88 » Wed Oct 17, 2012 1:30 pm

Here is some video. This one i did not edit at all. It's not bad, but please excuse the ramblings between me and josh.

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by dvanbramer88 » Wed Oct 17, 2012 1:32 pm

Chevy Power!
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by dvanbramer88 » Wed Oct 17, 2012 1:35 pm

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by navigator » Wed Oct 17, 2012 2:08 pm

Dave, the last 2 don't work for me.
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by dvanbramer88 » Wed Oct 17, 2012 2:16 pm

navigator wrote:Dave, the last 2 don't work for me.


Fixed
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by Trail X » Wed Oct 17, 2012 2:33 pm

Thanks for the video Dave. It's fun watching me fly down those switchbacks! :safari:
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by Moots1288 » Wed Oct 17, 2012 2:35 pm

JamesDowning wrote:Thanks for the video Dave. It's fun watching me fly down those switchbacks! :safari:

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