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| Defying Superstition. When we were
discussing when exactly we were going to schedule our annual
spring 4x4 trip up to the mountains of Pennsylvania, it seemed
this trip was destined to occur on a Friday the 13th. Now
most people wouldn't be too concerned about an old superstition
like that but then again, who really wants to tempt the
mystical unknown especially when you're going to take a bunch
of 4x4 vehicles out to thrash around the mountain trails,
miles from the middle of nowhere. But instead of
whimping out with our tail between our legs, we figured it
would kind of be the theme for the weekend, a Friday the 13th
weekend. So packed and loaded, we trekked 250 miles up
the PA Turnpike and across Rt 80 while some headed up 322 over
to 80. Friday the 13th certainly was a nice day for the
hike. All along the way we chatted on our standard
offroad CB channel - channel 13.
As always, enjoy the pictures and keep in mind all the pictures
link to a larger version, just click on it.
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| Our Friday group arrive around mid afternoon safe and sound at the
cabin and met up with Stephen and his pyromaniac daughter Amie
who was having a little too much fun with a lighter.
They had come up the night before with one of two guys in our
group named Ken and camped out in their
camper.
Paul was prepared to do an upgrade to his 66 CJ5 in the
way of installing electric wipers to replace the non-working vacuum
actuated wipers. Once the upgrade was completed, we
were underway towards the trails.
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| One of the first stops we like to go to up here
is an ever evolving little hole we call The Pit. It
amounts to a small, basin like, hole in the ground that has
hills all around it, which are fun as heck to climb all
over. Some of the short hills are quit steep, a few
others are not too bad. Some of the hills a vehicle or
two has been known to get air-borne off of.
Jeff was having fun with his newly purchased 4 wheel drive, independent
suspension Quad. I had a chance later to take his quad
out for a spin and it certainly was a fun ride to say the
least.
Our Friday afternoon cruise out before dinner consisted of
Stephen in his Land Cruiser, Ralph in a Jeep CJ-7,
Jeff on his Quad and Paul behind the wheel of an early model
CJ5. Later Friday evening a few more arrivals showed up,
Steve and Ken in Ken's new, bone stock TJ and Eric in his
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We played around The Pit for a little while and then decided
to head over to The Trench, a long spring fed water
hole. Soon after we headed down to a clearing we
call the Tree Stand, named after an old deer tree stand
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