COMPLETED: Photo shoot at Coyote Canyon/Grapevine Canyon

[DirtyBacon04]

About 2 weeks after purchasing his TB, my brother got orders to Afghanistan. He leaves first week of Feb. and he'll be gone for anywhere between 3 and 13 months . So he wanted to get it dirty a bit. PLUS a buddy of mine is an aspiring photogropher and asked if he could come along so he could put it in his portfolio.
That day, he took roughly 1800 pictures! He's been editing them for the past few days and I just got the first few from him. These are only from the first part of the trip.










ROCK CLIMBING!!!!! YEEEEAAAAAA!!!!








Anyboy who's familiar with Coyote Canyon, This is the 'deep river crossing' now. They re-routed the river and trail so what used to be 3 ft deep and 100 ft wide, is now 6in deep and 10ft wide. DAMN!!!












The asshole Jeep down there was headed down while I waited to go up. As he passed, he looked at my rig and snorted and said "good luck". So now he's dead............ to me

[The Roadie]

Cool trip. Since uphill has the right of way, you could have hissed at the Jeep's insolence..
Rerouting the stream or the trail was always on the State Park's option list. I suppose now we'll see more Ford Exploders get through the crossing only to get hung up on the boulders.

Glad your brother got to do that trail. Has he done Calcite Mine yet?

[DirtyBacon04]

Not yet. Thats next weekend. Have you done North Coyote Canyon yet? Its rated a 7... i was thinking of waiting till you got back to check it out.

[The Roadie]

Coyote Canyon from the north (Anza) side is on my bucket list, and they defanged that one a couple of years ago, I've heard. Still a two-truck run until I see it in person, but some ExPo folks have done it ans said it's easier than before. A few other good trails around Anza besides Santa Rosa mountain we could get to. Anticipate being in Korea from Feb 1-14 maybe. I'm back from MA, but then got sick. Sigh....

[DirtyBacon04]

Aight bud. Just let me know when you wanna go! I'm down. Or we can save it for the March trip, if yant to.

[That1Guy]

Not yet. Thats next weekend. Have you done North Coyote Canyon yet? Its rated a 7... i was thinking of waiting till you got back to check it out.

Might be able to get weekend off if I get back what I am expecting from taxes, gonna be another whole weekend or what?

[DirtyBacon04]

Next weekend is probably a day trip into the night for some dark time wheelin

[That1Guy]

Next weekend is probably a day trip into the night for some dark time wheelin

Ahh gotcha. Keep me updated.

[fishsticks]

One of these months I'll take a week off from work and make it down there...

[The Roadie]

There's a week of wheeling in the Sierra Nevadas or Death Valley, that's only 750 miles from you instead of the whole 1000.

[fishsticks]

There's a week of wheeling in the Sierra Nevadas or Death Valley, that's only 750 miles from you instead of the whole 1000.

My father in law and his wife live in Redding. It's not unrealistic for me to drop the wife and kids off there and keep driving.

[DirtyBacon04]

My photographer also does GIFs. Here is what I call "Fail rock climb with open diff rooster tail"

[DirtyBacon04]

One of these months I'll take a week off from work and make it down there...

Well plan on March 4th... thats when the farewell tour begins

[Trail X]

Cool shots Michael! Always nice to have someone that likes photographing along.

Why does he do so many shots off angle? Hurts my eyes!

The gif is cool! Next time tell him to use manual mode though, that will prevent the flicker you see. That's a pretty fast shutter he's got though!

[Gordinho80]

Why does he do so many shots off angle? Hurts my eyes!

Agreed. Cool shots, but it hurts my neck, not my eyes... lol

[Nakashige]

Nice Photos Bacon. Roadie it would be a honor to meet you sometime I live in Central MA.

[DirtyBacon04]

Why does he do so many shots off angle? Hurts my eyes!

Agreed. Cool shots, but it hurts my neck, not my eyes... lol

Must be his "magazine" style shooting. He usually does photoshooots of models, so i guess that might be it...

[navigator]

I just turned my monitor sideways.....j/k.

On that tan TB, in the second shot, it looks like the driver side tire has a lot of lean to it.
The passenger side looks almost straight.

[DirtyBacon04]

Must have been the angle of picture. My truck aint leaning now.