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This is offroading? What's the point? :huh:

 

The point? I think this scene from Star Trek V will explain beautifully:

 

          13   EL CAPITAN - KIRK

              He inserts the pads of two fingers into a narrow crack
              above his head. He exhales, focussing concentration.
              Kirk pulls himself up, balancing on a ledge barely an
              inch wide. Exhilarated, he pauses to admire the view.

         14   KIRK'S POV

              A breathtaking but vertigo-inducing HIGH ANGLE SHOT of
              Yosemite. This may be the 23rd Century but the park
              looks the same as it did three hundred years ago.

              There is a soft WHOOSHING SOUND and SPOCK suddenly rises
              INTO FRAME.

                                      SPOCK
                         Greetings, Captain.

         15   WIDE SHOT

              Spock hovers in mid- air alongside the startled Kirk, kept
              aloft by means of levitation boots. His hands are clasped
              behind his back, typically Spock-like.

                                       KIRK
                                    (he gasps)
                         Spock - What are you doing in
                         this neck of the woods?

                                      SPOCK
                         I'm monitoring your progress

                                      KIRK
                         I'm flattered. Twelve hundred
                         points of interest in Yosemite and
                         you pick me.

              Spock doesn't take Kirk's hint to get lost.

                                      SPOCK
                         I regret to inform you that the
                         record for free-climbing El Captain
                         is in no danger of being broken.

                                       KIRK (as he climbs)
                         I'm not trying to break any records.
                         I'm doing this because I enjoy it.
                         Not to mention the most important
                         reason for climbing a mountain...

                                      SPOCK
                         And that is?

                                       KIRK (with a smile)
                         Because it's there.

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It's like an addiction ... after a while you start to crave it. You want to go drive over stuff ... look around and feel like you are in the middle of a post card or one of those calendar pictures for each month (not the kind Azat and Armen have), and just get away from this damn screen and keyboard. You can also go to places that not too many people get to see if they stick to just regular paved roads.

 

Actually, my blazer did make the cover of a chevy truck calendar in 2002!!! A bunch of people voted on it and it got selected as the cover!

 

http://www.Sip.us/hf/cover.jpg

 

Needless to say I never flipped the calendar open ... it hung on my wall closed, all year :D

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You want to go drive over stuff ...

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This sounds a bit psychotic :P

 

Actually, I my blazer did make the cover of a chevy truck calendar in 2002!!! A bunch of people voted on it and it got selected as the cover!

That's great! How did it happen?

 

Needless to say I never flipped the calendar open ... it hung on my wall closed, all year :D

Isn't it still hanging on the wall? I'd imagine so if I was in your place.

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This sounds a bit psychotic :P 

That's great! How did it happen?

Isn't it still hanging on the wall? I'd imagine so if I was in your place.

 

I don't know how it really happened. One day I found out it was selected. It was basically on this online chevy truck forum ... that picture is on top of lion's back which you've probably seen me mention before ... out in Utah. So it just got to be pretty popular and the fact that there was both a pickup and a blazer basically on "top" of probably the most famous offroading landmark ever, it seems that a lot of people liked it.

 

I used to have one in UCLA and one at home. But since then I moved so they are somewhere in some box somewhere. I got nothing on any walls yet ... too lazy I guess :nerd:

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It's like an addiction  ... after a while you start to crave it. You want to go drive over stuff ... look around and feel like you are in the middle of a post card or one of those calendar pictures for each month (not the kind Azat and Armen have), and just get away from this damn screen and keyboard.  You can also go to places that not too many people get to see if they stick to just regular paved roads.

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Sip, now read it from my, Azat's, or better Gamavor's point of view...

 

It'sss like an adddiction...after a while you start you CRAVE it. You just want to go DRIVE off stuff...look around and feel like you are in the middle of a post card or one of those calendar pictures for each month (exacly like the kind Azat and I have), and just get away from this damn screen and keyboard. You can also go to PLACES that not too many people get to see if they stick to just regular paved roads.

 

See. It's the same. Women and nature are the same.

 

:lol2:

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I don't know how it really happened. One day I found out it was selected. It was basically on this online chevy truck forum ... that picture is on top of lion's back which you've probably seen me mention before ... out in Utah. So it just got to be pretty popular and the fact that there was both a pickup and a blazer basically on "top" of probably the most famous offroading landmark ever, it seems that a lot of people liked it.

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Oh wow, you must be proud :)

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HERE (~14MB wmv file so not for dialup) is a video of some slow crawling I was doing through a rock garden that a friend of mine shot and edited and sent it to me.

 

yeah, Im on uni lab PC so it wont let me download the codec to view this thing, but I can hear the "small pen!s" headbanger music in the background :lol:

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