Four WHEELING

4 Wheel Drive... Thank God!  Driving on a paved road is great if you need to get somewhere in a hurry, or it's a long trip, but when I don't have to do either I keep my eyes scanning the side of the road for random dirt tracks leading off into the distance. 

 My Jeep has a beautiful coat of red paint on it.  When I wash and wax her, the whole thing glows... but that gets old after a while!  Shiny is good sometimes, but a true Jeep should have a thick coat of nasty mud covering every surface of it!  I think that the max days of clean should be about 3 days, and then there needs to be signs of true use.

It should be illegal to own a 4WD vehicle and not take it off the pavement... and it should also be a punishable offense to put off-road modification on your rig and keep it a street warrior!  So get some guts, turn off that plain old concrete road, and hit the mud, hills, snow, rocks... whatever! 

 

Ok, enough of the soapbox!  Here are some pictures of off-roading.  The really good pictures are still coming (RUDY, SEND THEM TO ME!! We have pictures of Rudy and I both stuck in deep mud in the mnts. of WA), but these aren't half bad.  Both Rudy and I have made several more modification to our Jeeps, so we are now doing more wheeling then these pictures show.  I even took my Jeep out in the first 48 hours I got it, completely stock, and of course it died on me!! hahah... enjoy-

Oh yea, here's what I have:  '94 Jeep Cherokee, 3.5" ProComp Lift, 31" BFG Mud Terrains, AMR wheels, Smittybuilt 3" nerf bars, K&N Filtercharger, upgraded lights (halogen motor cycle lights... they rock!), kick'in stereo w/ Alpine receiver, upgraded speakers, subwoofer, and a 1 million candlepower spotlight.

This is about 48 hours after I got my Jeep... sure it's not killer, but it was a great time! Rudy speeding through snow melt Rudy and Lindsay kicking it in the Wrangler Damn... what a pimp! A muddy jeep, a The water looked so good I had to give it a try... this is our favorite spot to wheel out to. Great camp spot! WOAH!!! I guess it was a little colder then it looked!

 The is my Jeep on a quick off-road break (somewhere in ID) during my drive from Seattle to Colorado Springs. Althought my Jeep's fuel pump was shot, I still took a break to check out these rocks in WY. Nothing to hard, just wanted to get the tires up in the air. Cool rock formations I drove up to and around in WY.

My Jeep in an amazing Aspen grove. I tried to go back but the forest service had destroyed the road and blocked it off... grrr.. =( Just hoping up on another rock... didn't have my sway bar disconnects at this point though... oh well... Ahhh... the perfect coat of dirt for a Jeep! Damn she's beautiful! This is me after almost getting stuck in some terrible mud! It was a marsh with mud spots over 3 feet deep in some spots. We tried to aviod the really deep ones (no one there to tow us out), but we started to slip into one and I had to gun it out of there... ended up messing up my steering! I made it out alive... the Jeep looks sweet... what could be better?! (Maybe a hottie sittin next to me!) This is a view to the south... looking down onto Colorado Springs. The Air Force Academy is just at the bottom of the slope between me and the city.