A couple of us are getting together for a morning run up Jack Handle (Florence area).

This is a short trail, and we plan to be heading home by noon. Meeting spot is @ the staging area on Cottonwood Canyon Rd. (right off of hwy 89).

Bring at least 31" tires and a locker......:D

damn.....we need more AZ members!

we will be on cb channel 4, and VHF 146.520 if anyone is planning on coming.

Dont worry Brian, we'll make a trip out there to wheel with you . . . someday :D

yeah, we will! next time rick has to go to tuscon, i'll convince him that we need to drive the jeep and take me with! :P

Dude! There is so much awesome 'wheeling out here....

Since it was going to be pretty humid today, we decided to run upper woodpecker instead of Jack handle. Jack handle was much farther back into the hills than woodpecker.....

Woodpecker is a cool trail too. We bypassed the Firehole, but hit most of everything else.

There were a few moments when we were worried about rolling my jeep and the FJ that was with us (we put a tag line on the FJ---he doesn't like off camber stuff), and my spotter tells me I got the jeep pretty much vertical in the last chute.....it didn't feel that bad, but apparently it looked that bad. We'll see how the pics turn out before I make final judgement.

Anyway, I give the trail a thumbs up!

Next week we are thinking about running the 'gap down here in tucson to survey the fire damage.

ehh---I told them it didnt' feel that steep. It looked cool though.:P

http://offroader5.freeservers.com/slide_shows/Upper_Woodpecker_9-6-03/IMG_0255.JPG

More pics here (http://offroader5.freeservers.com/slide_show.html?show=Upper_Woodpecker_9-6-03&picture=thumbnail.jpg&autopilot_running=).

woohoo! rockin' time! that does it, we're heading out there! lol