Be sure to get a group shot, of the folks and the Patriots behind them, and I'll do some large prints for you.

Wish it were closer to me, I'd love to go along and meet you guys.

 

Group shot? great idea!

 

Oh yeah, we also need a cool name for this event. Like Desert Dash, or Cactus Crawl or something.

 

That sounds pretty awesome. If it weren't more than a days drive I'd probably try to join

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Sign me up.

Failwheel, add a list of those expressing interest. As the date/location gets nailed down, PM's can be sent out as reminders.

I'm assuming that it will be a Saturday, all day event.
Table Mesa is nice, but would make more sense later in the year when it's cooler (unless everyone will be swimming). Prescott area, or Rim country by Payson are good options for 4-5 weeks from now.

 

Cool, I updated it.

I like the idea of a location between Phoenix & Upstate as it would make for a better halfway point (as some people may be turned off on traveling too far) but I hear ya on the heat. You're right though we could always shoot for late Sept/early Oct.

The north side of Lake Pleasant is pretty awesome but would be a PITA for you northern guys to access... unless we all met up somewhere north of the lake and worked our way down.

Are there any lakes farther up north that would be good?

I don't really know the Payson area but am open to pretty much anything including drivinng up the night before & grabbin a hotel.

Jerome is a pretty cool area too. I've only been there once though and have no idea on if there are any good trails (I bet there are). The town is pretty fun.

I bought my rock sliders off a guy in downtown Phoenix that has an FDII. He might be interested in going.

 

So.... just two of us so far? There has to be some other Patriot owners in the AZ area who wants to get out and hit some desert trails?

 

Would love to but I'm 1,400 miles away. Lol


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Table mesa road would be a coo trail run! What if you guys went out to butcher Jones?? That's a great spot!

 

Butcher Jones is kinda fun. But a trail up in the hills, where it's cooler, would be nicer for a day.

 

Just looked up Butcher Jones, looks like another cool spot on a lake.

Was hoping to get a couple more folks interested in this... C'mon guys someone in AZ besides UA who and I has to want to get out and enjoy thier Patriots!

 

I've been hesitant to join because im not to sure when ill be in the phoenix area (usually make trips to phoenix and N. AZ to visit family), but im very intrested in joining. Just keep me updatedepper:

 

I'm in! Ive been a good ways down table mesa road and that was good I've hear that it joins up with 7 springs road I would love to travel to whole thing. I've hunting along seven springs and it is also a great road. I don't want to do anything to crazy because I'm only 2wd but I'm not afraid to get some mud on the tires.

 

Awesome!

Yeah no worries... I'm sure whereever we end up having the trail run it will be 2WD capable. BTW I'm 2WD also, but if things get sticky I have a winch

 

Oh and I almost forgot that UA who is 4wd so when we both break/get stuck he can go for help!

 

Was out mesing around in table mesa today checking out trails. For some reason I haven't been able to find the route that I did the one time that brought me farther up north.

Anyway I don't know Seven Springs but was looking it up and it sounds pretty cool.

 

I'm up for anything seven springs is pretty cool and it's not to far. What about crown king?

 

Wish I could trail will y'all


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^ Ditto...I need you to be out here in NorWest Texas FWD lol

 

I don't really know crown king but would like to check it out.

Are both crown king & seven springs relatively 2wd friendly?

 

Ive been up to crown king about a year ago no problem from the bumble bee/I-17 side. And I've only been like 5-10 miles past the recreation area down in 7 springs the only reason I was cut short was because the sun was about down

 

Was just looking at google maps... Plenty to cool looking routes, like maybe Crown King down to Lake Pleasant for a picnic lunch or something...

I just don't know those routes and if any of them are too rough, or maybe even too easy.

 

That sounds good Ive heard there are bypasses on the hard stuff

 

Hey has any one of you guys ever bottomed out on your patriot? Debating whether to get sliders or not.. i would be off-roading lightly every other weekend or so but nothing to extreme. Just not sure if it would be worth it or not...

 

it would be a big challenge to not to get sliders...
I always do offroad with sliders.

 

OK, guys I've updated the first post with the latest greatest.

UA who & Carter1995 let's nail down a date/location. (Burly Rez Goat - let us know if there is a particular Saturday that you can join us and we can try to work around your sched.)

At first I was partial to Table Mesa because I'm familiar with it and if we hit a dead end we can always just hit another trail.

Then I got to thinking I'd rather go to a place I haven't been before, but that means whomever knows the location the best will have to set route & lead the pack.

I've thrown some dates out there as well (Oct 27th, Nov 3rd, Nov 10th). Any of these work/not work for you guys?

I was thinking those little handheld Radios would be really nice to have so we could communicate on the trail - anybody have them?

I have a point and shoot & my cell phone is decent but does anyone have a good camera so that the group shot comes out good?