Jeffrey Stiner (Jeep Wrangerl), Geofff (Sportsmobile), Nate Skate (Jeep Cherokee), Max Chapman (Discovery II), and myself headed out to the Quilomene to camp, run a few miles of twin track, and to listen to the Grateful Dead concert across the river.  Despite striking out on a free concert, we had a great weekend with some fantastic weather and beautiful scenery.  The Quilomene was full of spring life with flowers blossoming, big horn sheep running around the hills, and green grass everywhere.  We enjoyed every moment of our liesurely drive through this fantastic ecosystem.

Trip Report and photos to come.... 

Sounds like a fun time! 

The Dead show was great! After the show we hit the Whiskey Dick area for a quick camp away from people. Rolled in around 1:30am and had a small fire and big margaritas....went to bed when the sky was becoming light and birds were starting to chirp Good times!

Some good videos from the show are here for anyone interested!
 

Deadhead Threadjack on :-) Here's "The Women Are Smarter" with Warren Haynes on lead guitar!

And the encore was Phil's "Box of Rain" :-)

I've just added some of my photos, too (in random order, apparently) to the end of that album.

And, if you just can't get enough, I also have a somewhat different set on my website: http://octopup.org/2009/quilomene

--Geoff

Wonderful photos. Looks like it was a great trip.

Brian

And still no mention by Craig of the rooftop tent vs. tree competition...   ;^

I do hope it didn't cause any serious damage.

Brian

Oh NO! That is serious doo-doo. Craig, you didn't even mention it when we spoke Saturday. At least it's sunny weather, huh?

edit: just viewed the great pics! Thanks for posting those up guys. It's best I didn't go with you. On our trip out of Whiskey Dick I had some non-normal noise underneath, and it is an OME shock bushing in the rear. I was able to fix her up on the spot and get out fine, but I would not have wanted to do mileage like that.