Why did you get into 4-wheelin..??

[deserthorizons]

All because of a little road on a map..

HTTP://gpn.rockcrawler.com/images/canyonlands_map.jpg


Why I do the 4-wheelin thing..

I never heard of Moab until 1978 and only then because it had a National Park named "Arches"..
I did not get to see Moab or Arches until late 1981..
I drove through Arches, hiked to all the different redrock arches in the park..
Then I came across this map and learned more about Canyonlands..

The only way to get to the "Island in the Sky" section was via a more than 20 mile drive on a very bumpy, washboardy road.. In my girlfriends Chevy Caprice.!!
I looked out on all the overlooks and saw this road far down below, same one as on the map..
That was it..!!
I had to go there..!!
4-Wheel drive was 'required'..

That took another 5 1/2 years..
Bought a brand new 4X4 '87 Dodge Dakota..
Immediately took off for Moab..
Drove down the Shafer trail, under Dead Horse Point
to the Potash plant and then back into Moab..

My next 4x4 vehicle was a
used '87 Suzuki Samurai..
That 'jeeplet' never let me down..

I was in an office one day and saw a 4-wheel mag.
with an article about the 1990 Easter Jeep Safari in Moab, Utah.. This turned out to be the first of many Safaris I would attend..
For my first trail I chose "Cliffhangar"
with a totally stock Samurai..
I was still basically a novice at 4-wheelin
but I surprised a lot a Jeepers there that day..

Then in July of '91 I got a deal on an '87 Jeep Cherokee..
and it's been Jeeps ever since for me..

[Chris S]

I've been into 4x4s since I was a kid. Monster trucks were new at the time and were very cool, but unfortunately all the other trucks were all chrome show rigs. My dad bought me a rusted out 74 Bronco when I turned 16, but since it wasn't flashy I wasn't really into fixing it. Dohhh! Now I want to go back and slap myself because that was one of the best 4x4s ever made.

My real 4-wheeling started in 97 when I got a new Cherokee as a work truck. I originally was just going to use it to get up logging roads and to camp sites, but then a buddy went out with a 4x4 club on a difficult trail and told me all about it. I went out with the club a couple times, but I was too worried about my new rig becasue I needed it for work. I soon talked the wife into getting an older XJ for herself and letting me modify it. Two weeks after buying a 91 XJ I stuck a 1.5" lift under it and 30" MTs and went to a Jamboree.

Now I'm VP of the 4x4 club, I wheel a TJ on 33s, and my driving skill has improved to the point that I run that "difficult trail" in 2wd to make it a challenge.

[Yucca-man]

Three words: Daisy. Duke. Jeep.

[Oscar]

I grew up in Olathe Colorado. 10 miles south of Montrose and 40 miles south of Ouray. What choice did I have I mean I thought everybody lived in places like that. 4x4 is a way of life there for most folks. I practically live in the San Juan mountains as a kid and drove walked and crawled all over the Uncompaghre Plateau.

[Rocky Road]

Stumbled into 4wheeling on a mtn bike trip many years ago.

Obviously took a new direction in life as a result. A better direction. Kissed the "suit" job goodbye and got hooked on fabrication and 'beta testing' ;)

[Chris S]

Stumbled into 4wheeling on a mtn bike trip many years ago.

Obviously took a new direction in life as a result. A better direction. Kissed the "suit" job goodbye and got hooked on fabrication and 'beta testing' ;)

And we're all happy for it. :D
(or those of us who know a bit abouyt you anyway)

[Chris S]

I started with Mtn Biking, but as I got busier and busier with work I had less and less time to stay in the condition that serious biking requires. I missed the time in the bush, so when I needed a Ute for work I bought a 97 XJ.
I find it hilarious now to think of the roads that I considered difficult in that first year, but wheeling that bone-stock grocery getter taught me a lot about choosing lines and making the most of what you have.
I soon realized that I wanted to go places that I wasn't keen on taking the "good" vehicle into, so I bought a 91 XJ, added a 1.5" budget lift and 30s, and headed to a Jamboree. After embarassing many more heavily modified Wranglers with my "station wagon" I started on more and more dificult terrain. When I came to the limits of what the XJ (as it was) could handle I had the descision to build the XJ or trade the 97 XJ for a TJ.
The TJ won, and now I am VP of a local 4x4 club.

[Ab van Suijlekom]

Maybe you know, but we don't have big cars in the Netherlands
But we like them.
We've bin checking out Nissan Patrol, Toyota Landcruiser, Mercedes, BMW.
But I like the liberty most
Because :
1 - It's compact (or looks so)
2 - My wife loves the car
3 - American car
4 - Many options
5 - Cheapest of all (I'm Dutch remember :D)
6 - Jeep.
7 - Looks Great.

[JeepFreek]

I live in Bama and i see a lot of off road vehicles and thought that it would be fun to go off road , and ive always wanted a convertable, and my best friends dad had a YJ and that was the end of the story and my bank account!