So I flew from South Carolina to Phoenix to meet my wife who had been away on business...left the JK at home We drive the rented Corolla up to Sedona and I find out that is right in the middle of Red Rock National Forest...so off to rent a Wrangler and surprise $250 a day...which is out of my budget. Then out of the corner of my eye I see a bunch of Grand Cherokee owners at the grocery store across the street. So I decided to go over and see what they were up to and after talking with them for a few minutes they told us to jump in and 8 hours later we had climbed up to 7500 ft through washes and rocks and it was AWESOME
That was Saturday, today we met up with the couple we rode with and they took us on three more trails and I didnt even ask but they insisted I drive their Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited with the HEMI all over Red Rock....what a great group.
They were led by their ring leader who's name is Kevin and owns Kevin's Offroad in Phoenix. He has his own shop and is currently in the process of developing new parts for JK's. Kevinsoffroad.com is his website. Here are some pics...





I was riding in this rig which just had a moderate three inch lift and Moabs with the factory Rubi MT's...

 

Damn man, that is pretty cool! I would love to give a cherokee a go on the trails, espically with a HEMI. Just goes to show....It's a Jeep Thing! Theres nothing like it! Thanks for sharing

 

Well thats right it is a Jeep thing.....these guys just didnt care. There exact words, "$250 thats pretty steep, hop in you can ride with us just pick a rig!"
But here is the link to Photobucket for the rest of the pics for all three days but my wife and I were only there for Saturday and Sunday.

http://s37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...a%20GS/Friday/
http://s37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...20GS/Saturday/
http://s37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...a%20GS/Sunday/

Here is a pic of me standing at the top of teacup trail

 

Wow....great pics.....you were fortunate to find those guys wheelin....and better yet they invite you to join the trip....then let you drive one one of the rigs......can't get any better than that.....Jeep families.....

 

awesome

 

That's awesome....lots of love in the JEEP FAMILY!

 

That's pretty awesome! Looks like it was a fun time.

 

That is sweet that you met Kevin. I have been working with him on a few of those JK parts. Great story

 

Great story!

 

It really was AWESOME...I had no intentions of getting to crawl anything on my little trip but these folks were just so GREAT!!!! They just said "Well hop on in!"