Category: Travel

     with John Cosentino Zooks from all over the North East  came together for one or both of a two day run around Beacon Mountain, NY organized by Eddie Casanueva. Eddie is the east coast rep for ASA and co-founder of Spidertrax, Inc. The terrain was mostly rock, loose rock and granite. The trails […]

Click Here To Visit with Tim Tackett North Coast Off Road Rubicon Adventuress with NCO The dust has settled, and the 2000 Calmini Appreciation Run on the Rubicon Trail is over.  All I can say is WOW!  Coming from North Western Ohio, I was in awe with both the beauty of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, […]

       Broad Canyon (Hard) rounded out the event on Saturday with a group of 26 vehicles, including three Hummers. The canyon walls are tall and steep. This makes it interesting when it rains. There have been flash floods through this valley that have been recorded as high as 32″ above the canyon floor. […]

    with Bill Johnston Chile Challenge 2006 I keep getting asked the same question over and over again by the folks I work with…  “What kind of competition is this Chile Challenge you go off to each year?” I have to explain to them that the only ‘challenge’ is getting back from the trails […]

       Keith Chapin rolled in from Albuquerque, New Mexico and brought his school bus yellow 87 hard top Samurai to the event. The paint is accented by a black ‘school bus’ stripe along the sides along with the words ‘Short Bus’ where you would expect ‘school bus’ to be. He had done a […]

Click Here To Visit 3rd annual Calmini Rubicon Runwith story and photographs by: Ted Holman.Editor: Eric Bewley. The call was out again. Down to Rubicon Springs for more fun and frolicking. Well at least for the fun part. We called all of our buddies and headed south for Lake Tahoe. No camping the first night […]

2008 ‘Big Picture’ Buy as many as you would like (in one order) and you will only be charged a single $5 fee for shipping and handling to anywhere in North America. —> These are large format 11″x17″, printed digitally on gloss stock. <—  If you didn’t get the 2007 photo, it is also available […]

  with Rae Champoux photos by Rae, Lisa and Murphy Two Girls and a Samurai All weekend long I had been talking to my husband Mitch about me taking the Zuk out for a little bit of female bonding/ wheeling with my best friend, Lisa Ellsworth. Saturday morning rolled around and Mitch was not feeling […]

    with Bill Johnston Amatista Ledges Amatista Ledges is a trail in the Robledo mountains just west of Las Cruces, New Mexico. It is listed as a ‘moderate’ trail because it has some technical parts that require a spotter and a locker. This is not a hard core buggy trail, so it makes a […]

    with Bill Johnston ARCA in Las Cruces The American Rock Crawlers Association descended on Las Cruces, New Mexico for the second in the series of four events planned for the 2001 Extreme Rock Crawling Nationals series. Goodyear, last years major sponsor for the series, was joined this year by Skyjacker to bring the […]