Took my wife for a 4x4 date.

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I was in an area that I frequent a lot the day before this trip and saw a road I had never seen before leading from the valley up to the top of the surrounding mountains. It was getting dark however when I found the road and I was alone, The next day was the first nice day of the year, it hit 70 degrees and was a mix of sun and light clouds, so we dropped the kids off at the in-laws and decided to go exploring for our big date. Here is what we found.

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Once we reached the top we could see roads that went in almost every direction. They led back further into the mountains and some trailed across the tops from peak to peak through the saddles. We spent several hours just exploring and taking random roads to see where they led. It was pretty easy going once you got on top with only a few technical areas, but the road to get up on top was very loose gravel, we watched more than one stock truck that couldn't make it up that hill and turned around at the bottom. Once again I have been impressed with the off-road abilities of this little rig.

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Some pics on top looking down.

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Once we got into the canyons we found a dead end box canyon that some idiot had left trashed with beer cans, spent shell casings, and just garbage. We were ready for a lunch break so we decided to shoot my new Glock 19 since we have not shot it yet since purchasing it. We used some of the cans they left then cleaned the site up and took it with us. I guess I should be grateful for the free spent brass (I reload) but it highly irritates me that people are that incompetent that they can't clean up their own trash. My 4 year old knows we leave it cleaner than we found it for crying out loud!

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We explored random roads for a couple more hours. Just having a leisurely day enjoying being outside away from home together. It was a very relaxing day and we enjoyed the company. We saw some wildlife and found a new piece of where we live. It was great.

[Trail X]

Seriously, not even fair. Thanks for sharing!!

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Sure if I can figure out how to get the strict size requirements. I have around 20 of that photo from different angles. They were taken on my evo phone and they don't take kindly to resizing with MS Paint though and that is the only program I have on my laptop that will resize photos. That is why it looks blurry and digitized. Most of the others were taken on my wife's Digi SLR.

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Wow wish there was a place like that close to me!
Great pic!

[gotspeed1]

Seriously, not even fair. Thanks for sharing!!

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It's a winner!!! Nice Pics!!

[Harry Moto]

Awesome! The 4x4 date; we call it an 'Exploring day', but we do the same thing. Usually we have separate Shooting day adventures, but we're certainly in favor of getting a little shooting in if the opportunity pops up!

We had an epic ride on April Fools day, started out down in Florence and ended up taking Box Canyon Rd. north, went all the way to Hwy 60 by Superior. Tragically, I left my camera at home, so I guess it didn't happen! LOL I'm itching to do it again and get pix, but Karen swears we'll never EVER go back there. I really enjoyed the challenge, except for the part where we had to take some abandonded mine roads to get around the double 4' rock step-ups about 3/4 of the way up! Scary...

The Silent Armor tires got good grip and didn't chunk or anything. Did some side-wall on rock slides in the tight spots, no damage to tire or body. I go really really slow whenever possible, saves on wear and tear.

Your pix are beautiful. Makes me even less happy about forgetting my camera! LOL Nice ride, nice text, thanks for sharing.