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IN PROGRESS: Ashburnham, Westminster MA Dec 29th 2011

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by Nakashige » Tue Dec 13, 2011 10:30 pm

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by NC_IslandRunner » Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:13 am

I wanna see a muddy snow covered pic!
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by janesy86 » Wed Dec 14, 2011 7:50 am

Ben, you check out any of the roads yet? Definitely looking forward to see what they offer, as they are a bit closer by.
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by Nakashige » Wed Dec 14, 2011 2:49 pm

I checked Old County Road. My thoughts 2 in lift friendly for the most part water crossing some rock and big drop offs near the end. A lot of trails with in it just need to be careful we don't go into the wildlife sanctuary area. Didn't get to look into any other roads. Would deffently be a full day of exploring all the roads. Didn't feel safe exploring by myself. Did body damage on ice front fender paint chips and cracked the silver center grill bar again.

Nick if you are interested I am free this weekend if you want to go explore if not I think I am going to with my friend that has a JK 4 door on 32s
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by janesy86 » Wed Dec 14, 2011 3:58 pm

Unfortunately this weekend I will not be around. Have to fly down to NC on Fri and drive back up an Sat with my sister and 1 y/o nephew. She just got out of the Marines and is moving back up here for the time being and I said I'd help her out.

But maybe during the week right after Christmas if your free, I'd go for a run. Got that whole week off.
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by Nakashige » Wed Dec 14, 2011 7:45 pm

Ok I will attempt to get a day off during that week let me know what day works the best for you and lets try and get a hold of Damian as well
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by janesy86 » Wed Dec 14, 2011 8:47 pm

I'm thinkin' Thursday or Friday would be the best.
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by Nakashige » Wed Dec 14, 2011 8:50 pm

For me I would say Thursday of that week
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by janesy86 » Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:10 pm

Cool. If you can get it off, I'm down.
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by Nakashige » Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:24 pm

Damian Where are you in this
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by Nakashige » Sat Dec 17, 2011 12:19 am

I am most defiantly set on Dec 29th. As long as I only messed up my alignment and tore a CV Boot this past week in the parking lot.
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by DmccartneyFF2TB » Sat Dec 17, 2011 9:36 pm

During the week isnt good for me i have school off but i decided to work all week instead.
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by janesy86 » Sun Dec 18, 2011 12:31 am

Yea I hear ya. Definitely would not be good for me either, but my company doesn't allow me to roll over any vacation time, so I had to take the week to not lose it...
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by Nakashige » Sun Dec 18, 2011 1:27 am

I am set to do some more exploring nick. Maybe the water will be frozen this time
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by Nakashige » Wed Dec 21, 2011 10:23 pm

Nick my hope is that the trails and roads are fully frozen. I ripped through my driver cv boot in the ice
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by janesy86 » Fri Dec 30, 2011 1:46 pm

Got some GoPro footage before Ben got stuck for 12hrs... Might be a while before I can get to edit it, as my Mac is too old and slow to edit the footage...
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by djthumper » Fri Dec 30, 2011 2:11 pm

Wow that would have to be a pretty old mac.
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by janesy86 » Fri Dec 30, 2011 3:35 pm

8 years... Just doesn't have a fast enough processor or enough RAM.
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by NC_IslandRunner » Fri Dec 30, 2011 4:58 pm

janesy86 wrote:8 years... Just doesn't have a fast enough processor or enough RAM.


Is your keyboard carved wood or etched stone? :poke:

Time to join the modern world Nick! :finger:
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by janesy86 » Fri Dec 30, 2011 5:04 pm

Yea I know. Its still a nice PowerBook. Have turned it off only a handful of times since I've had it, so no complaints.

Just too cheap to shell out the $$ for a new Mac. So expensive. And I don't want to go PC.
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