With 24 JK's, 1 H3 and a TJ, the 2nd Annual Project-JK Last Chance Canyon Run was by far the biggest group we've been able to assemble for a run to date and in all honesty, one of the best times I've had on a trail run as well. To all of you who were able to make it out, thank you for coming. Here are some pics from the run....

Hooking up with about half our group at the Bravo Burgers in Adelanto...


Making the Texaco station in Johannesburg look like a gas shortage line back in the 70's....


Hilltop view of all our rigs airing down at the trailhead...


Drivers meeting...


toad handing out a name badge to jasoncliff...


Group 1 lined up and ready to go...


Group 1 on their way up the canyon...


Group 2 - Off-Road 101...


Here are a few shots that we took of people making their way up different points along the trail. First off is dr.disel...


here's fish...


MUD PLZ


toad


Kayrn...


Newtybar...


Vic...


jasoncliff...


SoCal_JK_2dr


Mazzman...


RCJeeper...


Bradlybob...


and Coldfire...


Here a shot of us right after hooking back up with Group 1 and just before the last hill climb...


Here a shot of FunN4Lo making the steep climb out of the Canyon...


serverapurpose...


Joe (friend of lensman)...


lensman...


jkpirate...


NotMySonsJK...


Mr.Bash...


Trail Bud...


and, OffTopic...


Group 1 heading off to camp while Group 2 sets up for lunch...


The end of the trail - MUD PLZ, Newtybar and Vic split off from the group here and headed for home...


If you would like to see all 606 pics from the Project-JK 2nd Annual Last Chance Canyon Newbie Run, simply click on the link below:

Project-JK Last Chance Canyon Newbie Run 2008 Photo Gallery

More pics from camp and Day 2 Below...

 

For those of you who have gone wheeling with us but have never camped with us, you really have no idea what you're missing out on - can you say PARTY TIME!!!

Here's a shot of our camp site after Group 1 finally found us and JKTyrant showed up...


Mr.Bash and his uncle cooked us some mean Armenian BBQ while jasoncliff and his wife blended some Margaritas and delicious carne asada!!


Shot of camp at dawn...


Many of the wildflowers were surprisingly still in bloom...








That morning, we spent some time hiking around the hills behind camp and found a ton of petroglyphs everywhere...


We also found an arangement of rocks lined up in a circle as well...


an interesting friend we met along our hike...


After hooking up with PoorDad, we made our way up to the famous Burro Schmidt Tunnel...


jkpirate making is way out to the otherside...


View on the otherside of the tunnel looking southwest...


Making our way back through the tunnel...


and of course, the light at the end of the tunnel...


NotMySonsJK making his way back down into Last Chance Canyon followed by OffTopic and FunN4Lo...


JKTyrant makes his way down followed by jkpirate...


On our way out through Nightmare Gulch, we stopped over at the Last Chance Canyon Overlook to take a look...


fish exploring a crumbling mine shaft...


At the end of the trial and the end of another great trip...


Unfortunately, Mr.Bash has a busted valve stem so we help him change a tire. But, it's pretty much the only break we had on the whole trip so all was good...


Again, if you would like to see all 606 pics from the Project-JK 2nd Annual Last Chance Canyon Newbie Run, simply click on the link below:

Project-JK Last Chance Canyon Newbie Run 2008 Photo Gallery

Special thanks needs to go to toad and bullfrog for helping out with all the newbies and for providing name badges, Trail Bud for leading Group 1 though the trail, jasoncliff and his wife for providing cold margaritas on a very HOT day and delicious carne asada and Mr.Bash and his uncle for cooking up some very awesome Armenian BBQ!! It's truly because of the extra effort from people like you that really make a run of this size a fun as it was. You guys rock!!

 

Oh, and for those of you who haven't already seen them, click on the link below to see a bunch more pics taken by members who came on the run...

https://www.jk-forum.com/forums/show...=36468&page=64

The pics start at page 64 and more show up on subsequent pages.

 

What a great day I missed out on. Thanks for the nice pictures.

 

If you had group#2 who had group #1 ? Trail Bud

If you had to do it again, would it be a large or small group


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I think the East Coast, needs to do something like this. Looks like you guy;s had a great time.

 

Very Nice. Cant wait to jaoin you on the next one......

 

Looks like an absolute blast - nice pics, and thanks for sharing as always!

 

Awesome awesome pics makes me look forward to next time.

 

WOW, Team WOL, Ya'll take some awsome pics!!!