Heading out to Moab, EJS 2011
We’re all loaded up and ready to make the trip from Michigan to Moab. Easter Jeep Safari starts tomorrow, April 16th, and runs through Easter Sunday, April 24th, with trail rides, vendor show, vehicle debuts from Mopar, and so much more! See us out on the trails or stop by the vendor show on Thursday-Friday to check out “Rescue Rubicon” and take advantage of special show offers. With so much going on around Moab next week, BDS wants to get your nights (or afternoons) started off right. Find us around town, on the trail, or at the show and get your free beer coupon. Ask us nicely, we might even give you 2. If you’re heading out to Moab for EJS, drive safe and we’ll see you out there! In the meantime, check out some of our footage from last year’s EJS.
Moab 2010 – Day 4
We headed out to run Poison Spider Trail with a couple of Jeeps and an F-Toy converted 4Runner. This trail, like most of the others, had a wide range of terrains including sand, rock, and extremely steep climbs. While out on the trial you’ll see Jeeps, full size rigs, buggies, ATVs and dirt bikes. This trail has the opportunity to be extremely challenging, but offers up bypasses on many of the obstacles. After climbing 50-degree grades and racing through the sandy desert, we came to more amazing views and a chance to take lunch. We continued on the trail along with hundreds of others that came out to play on this warm, sunny day. On our way off the trail, we saw a number of Crawl feature trucks and top truck challenge competitors which made for quite a sight. [flagallery gid=16 name=”Gallery”] Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3
Moab 2010 – Day 3
This was the first day of the vendor show. To our surprise it was snowing outside and the wind was blowing like crazy. Fortunately for us, our booth was indoors. Although the arena isn’t heated, just the wind protection was a blessing. The bad weather outside drove the masses indoors and we were extremely busy all day. The vendor turn out was strong and there was definitely a lot for everyone to look at. [flagallery gid=15 name=”Gallery”] Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 4
Moab 2010 – Day 2
With a good nights sleep we woke up ready to hit the trails. We met up with Warn Industries to run 7-mile rim. This trail, more scenic as it was, still offered up a number of rocks, off-camber obstacles, and steep climbs. With obstacles like the waterfall, ledges, the crack and open sand to run wide open, we pushed the suspension through it’s fair share of testing only to come out unscathed. No further body damage on this trip, however the 40mph winds took a beating on us all day long. [flagallery gid=14 name=”Gallery”] Day 1 | Day 3 | Day 4
Moab 2010 – Day 1
After a long and anxious 24hr drive, we finally made it in to Moab and prepped the BDS TJ for hitting the trails with Crawl Magazine. The town has been taken over by jeeps, yotas, and full size trucks towing trailers. About 10 minutes outside of town we met up with Crawl Magazine at BFE to run some trails. Crawl debuted their new buggy which didn’t disappoint out on the trails. After a quick drivers meeting we headed out to run the Green Day trail following Larry from Crawl in his yellow LJ. Watching Larry smash in the driver’s door of his rig seemed like a good idea so we followed suit and there were many more that followed. What made for some great photos for everyone else left our driver’s door mangled. On the positive-side our door is closing better now, being that previously it didn’t due to carnage…