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sweet that a buying trip can turn into an educational outdoor bit of fun for father & son. Very cool...now looking foward to how you setup that fridge in your old orange suburban Nick

Todd is would be super cool to roll with your rig, like I mentioned in the report there were some old timer hunters running a very nice red & white square body bronco. Another Expo fellow up by Kingman want to put together an Arizona old iron run so we really need to make that happen.

Back in my street rod days we built center consoles using the wood frame/jersey fabric/fiberglass resin method and it worked really well. I plan to do something like that in the Suburban...unless my 13yr old convinces me to do wood and he wan't the cool retro look of wood grain in the rig.

That bull had no fear or concern towards us at all, matter of fact it was more about us driving around HIM than him moving out of our way :)

looks like a crazy cold time and plenty of recovery practice going on there. Great to see such a variety of rigs out playing together.

Day 3 getting home... This was our view from camp the next morning and even for a slow am mover like me it was worth stirring from the sleeping bag. We all gather on the web because we share a love of the outdoors and it is times like this that the builds, tech and gear pays for itself. The...

However when we turned to Workmans Campground we found the Gila Country Search & Rescue out for a scouting trip. They informed us that the campground was buried under 2ft of snow and we should just turn around. Of course that meant we had to go forward and check it out for ourselves. But is was...

An interesting thing that happened to us as we traveled our Shelf Road Adventure was how the trail would shift from bone dry dirt to snow packed mud & slush...it all depends on the sun. But finally we climbed out of the valley and jumped on SR 188 and headed off North to Young, Az in search...

Waymon spotted this metal sign just off the trail and of course we had to stop and check it out. It speaks of the Cliff Dwellings in the area but doesn't really tell you WHERE they are. But Waymon had some binoc's and was able to spy out a couple of examples. I wish we had stopped to hike and...

So after we finally had the pleasure of NOT driving on shelf roads as we motored north along Cherry Creek, Waymon lets out another Whoop on the radio to let me know there was water crossing with a twist. We could run this one side by side as there were two routes across. I tried to get a pic...

Gleason Flat offers a nice place to get yourself wet and take a break. And plenty of room for a group camp. Matter of fact I think this is where I might camp if I was doing this as a weekend trip where I had left Phoenix at 8am instead of the 11am we happened to roll out. This is an overlook...

Waymon and Lexi had a good time getting up into the rocks. We really thought we heard a waterfall back in there but without jumping into the water for a swim it was tough to see far enough back into the canyon. The water seemed plenty deep at this point but the crossing was shallow enough to...

And Day 2 continues... Again the signage was great for letting you know where you were and where to go play...and if it was up to me I would add a little bit about how Canyon Creek is super cool and Gleason Flat is an excellent group campsite..as you will soon see! But for the moment it was...

How cool is that! Looks like a giant version of my emergency tablet stove with a grill added, very nice. Thanks for posting as that would be a simple addition to the camp kitchen.

But guess what? The shelf road is back, now we laughed a bit at this point in the morning but by the end of the day we were just plain beat up from driving on the edge. Of course there are always rewards to match the hazards and one of them was Rock Springs which is where water comes out of...

Day 2 begins.... Yeah I know, all that and we only covered day 1, and really that was just a partial day as we didn't roll out of Phoenix until about 11am and then there was lunch in Globe, so you can imagine how happy we were to have enjoyed our little adventure up to this point. And it only...

Ohhhhh don't my rig look ghetto beautiful cruising across the water like that :) Nice pics and great to have you as another voice in the story Waymon.

Sparky...great that you are looking into a ditch bag and you are very much on the right track. Rather than post a long worded (winded :) response I will offer to pull my pack out tomorrow in the daylight and take some pics and offer my thoughts to go with them That way you have a visual...

I took a little walk down to the water and looked back at camp...I liked it. Of course the river view was nice also and if the temps weren't so cold it would be fun to jump in and splash around a bit. Or dip a line and catch some dinner, then again I don't like fish so I would be catching...

And then we got to the Salt Banks Campground...well it had the best name and the saddest condition. We should have known when we started down some rough and rarely used 2 track but as always ya just gotta take a look. It was very pretty here and well named for the vertical white banks (they...