This past weekend I was invited to cover the annual Trail Gear Customer Appreciation Run by Matt Messer of Trail Gear. Trail Gear is a company in Fresno that makes aftermarket upgrades for Toyotas and Jeeps.

This Event is not really about extreme wheeling as much as it is hanging out with friends, and enjoying easy wheeling in a really scenic place.

It all started with amazing BBQ at the Trail Gear shop followed by some RC Rock Crawler hi-jinx and then we rolled out for the mountains.

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I think the temperature down in the valley was over 100 degrees so getting to higher ground was most welcome. Once we were up past Shaver and into the woods, I was a lot more comfortable. All in all, this event was pretty low key but watch the pages of CRAWL Magazine sometime in October or November. 

First post!

Ok, so here I am posting my first entry at blogspot. I'm wondering if I'll like it better than Live Journal. It's tempting to use LJ because of the community aspect with contacts etc. I'm not sure I would actually benefit from that in the long run and I kind of like the layout options here at blogspot better. Time will tell. May as well give this a whirl, right? Hmm this has fancy formatting options too. Not that LJ doesn't, just that you have to type the html tags there... or if you don't their UI needs work. I never saw another choice aside from tag typing at LJ.