RamJam '06 - MOAB, UT

["Mad Max"]

Folks,

We got back from RamJam 06 held this year in Moab, UT. In a word - incredible - both the 'wheeling and the scenery. Our campsite at the KOA only cost $5/night, meals were 'on the town', and fuel. Providing you don't break parts, the whole trip cost us about $200 each, including fuel. Granted we were only coming from Colorado Springs so it was a 7-hour drive, and three of us (plus a dog) were all in one vehicle, but it was a pretty inexpensive trip. We all piled in my buddy Ben's '05 Cummins 4x4, a 3/4-ton 8000lb, 4-door, short bed rig, riding on Kore Pace suspension and 35" mudterrain tires - and that rig went everywhere, with only a couple bypasses to avoid scratching up the paint. It was awesome.



Here's some pics from Moab:



Day -1, Power Tour from Denver

We had 4 great trucks, and we convoy'd all the way in. The scenery was awesome! Christopher's Dodge set us up with a real nice spread of coffee and donuts under a canopy, lots of parking, and friendls faces. One of their guys was going to RJ as well in a beefy Rubicon.



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Day 1 next:



- M2

 

["Mad Max"]

Day 1 (Friday) - 7-Mile Rim Trail:



15 trucks airing down for 7-mile -



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Day 2 next:

 

["Mad Max"]

Day 2: 'Hells Revenge'



IDually with his Cummins-powered 93 Ramcharger, and his crew

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... to be continued...

 

["Mad Max"]

Me and Traci on top of Hells Revenge



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The "Escelator"



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SpiderRam (Greg) entering Escelator

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Group shot near the end...

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["Mad Max"]

Day 3 was all video, so no pics (sorry!), but at the end of the day the whole gang, all 34 of us, went to the Moab Brew Pub for chow and some good stories...



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... and a very tired puppy...



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We're definitely going next year, and there's talk of having two RamJam events each year, possibly at Moab... and Tellico. Not concurrently, but Tellico is looking like it will be over Labor day weekend, 2007. Moab may be again the last weekend in September.



Great time, and great wheeling. And proof that Cummins-powered rigs, including new rigs, can go to and enter these trails. What a blast!



- M2

 

[Nate]

Wow crazy... I was at Moab this weekend as well.



I talked to the fellow with the red Ramcharger/primer fender that's got a Cummins conversion. He was at the Slickrock camground where we were staying. Also saw that flat black Ramcharger in town.



I had no idea it was a TDR event... the fellow with the red Ramcharger mentioned it being a Ramcharger event.