January 14th, 2001 Mogs & Pinzgauers in Lefthand canyon
Attendees (in no particular order):
From:
Vehicle:
John Palmer
Golden, Colorado, USA
1973 710M Pinzgauer
Marc Lomax
Broomfield, Colorado, USA
1971 VW Baja Bug
Steve Daditz
Arvada, Colorado, USA
1966 404.1 German HF Radio truck
Frank Smith
Golden, Colorado, USA
1973 712M Pinzgauer
John Kruse & L Ross
Broomfield, Colorado, USA
1974 710M Pinzgauer
Bob Fischer
Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
1972 710M Pinzgauer
Bob Tucker
Littleton, Colorado, USA
1973 710M Pinzgauer
Joe Mortzheim & Jason
Littleton, Colorado, USA
1973 710M Pinzgauer
John Light
Lakewood, Colorado, USA
1972 710M Pinzgauer
Billy Douglas
Colorado, USA
1982 Scrambler Jeep
Eric Smidt
Colorado, USA
1997 TJ Jeep
Ron DePugh & Kent Drummond
Boulder, Colorado, & Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA
1963 404.1 Unimog VLF
Bob Ragain
Littleton, Colorado, USA
1957 404.1 Unimog "Moglite"
I don't think I left anyone out, but please let me know if I did...
The Rocky Mountain Moggers and the Rocky Mountain Pinzgauers decided to get together for some off-roading for the day. We met at the bottom of Lefthand Canyon, in the parking lot of the Greenbriar Inn. Here is John Palmer's Pinzgauer, with his custom-made removable hardtop.
Steve Dagitz brought his radio truck, and Mark Lomax brought a VW Baja Bug, since he was without his Pinzgauer.
Frank brought his 6x6 712M Pinzgauer.
This is a sort of central area to the play trails. We all stopped here to decide which way to go.
Frank heads up one of the trails in his 712M.
A number of the Pinzgauers at play on a steep hillside.
Marc's Baja made it up to the play area, but ran into some troubles crossing some of the deeper ditches. It doesn't have the articulation that the Unimogs and Pinzgauers have. Since it is only two wheel drive, it got a drive wheel off the ground and couldn't go anywhere. Once Marc took a running start at the ditch, he made it across.
A pickup truck was having a lot of troubles negotiating a washed-out road coming down the hill. Notice the rear wheel off the ground. I drove up and down the ditch in my VLF, and never got a wheel off the ground.
A severely modified Jeep was playing in one of the deeper wholes just to see how far his suspension would stretch.
Kent and I took a ride up to the top of the ridge behind here. We found one spot in the road that was very tippy, with large rocks to drive over. On the way back down, one of the Pinzgauers had slipped a wheel down off the side of one of the boulders, and was in danger of tipping over, and rolling on down the hill. We stopped and helped with the rescue, and got the Pinzie safely out of trouble.
After some more visiting and playing on the hills, we called it a day.
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