TR: Anza Borrego XTC Training Session with Alex

[anutami]

I had the great pleasure of meeting Alex (c.traveler2) and Julie this weekend in an short but sweet Anza Borrego adventure. It was his first adventure to Anza borrego and I wanted to show him around. Actually it was more of Alex showing me how its done XTC style.

we were to meet in Blair Valley, and a few truck campers kept coming by which I thought was Alex
Not this one, I think he has a hardside lance


This was a hardside but not a Lance


Here was a hardside lance but didn't look like his truck


I think this is his rig 🙂


Our 2 rigs saying hello


We headed off through Blair Valley to check out some of the Jet Crash sites around




we headed off to try and find the two jet crashes


Jet engine half burried


some of the wreckage


the landing gear, I guess they had a tire blow while trying to land


Brett found the wing






We headed into Oriflame Canyon and I got some XTC pointers from the Pro




we set up camp amongs the cottonwoods


I couldn't believe the canyon was bone dry, this is usually flowing pretty good...


some of the blooms






Alex and his rig


What a great trip! Alex, gave me so many good pointers on how to better equip my rig to handle the off road extremes. He even gave me a good pointer on how to replace my fresh water tank filler cap


Alex in Action Video Clicky

Thanks Alex, what a great trip, let me know when you are in the area again:)

[GoinThisAway]

Camper_Jeff_&_Kelli wrote:

RZAR66 wrote:

Camper_Jeff_&_Kelli wrote:
I don't know about these crash sites but there are crash sites where Air Force, Marine, and Navy pilots have lost their lives during training missions. My nephew who is in the AF lost two of his friends in a night training crash a couple years ago. Just wanted visitors to be aware and respectful.

That's a very good point. But on the flipside, it's to bad the military isn't respectful enough to clean up those crash sites.

Some crash sites, the pilot / pilots are unrecoverable making them a grave site or memorial.

I would hope that in these cases a memorial plaque would be posted to make folks aware of this. Might not be the case though or, worse, someone may have removed the plaque.

[Camper_Jeff___K]

RZAR66 wrote:

Camper_Jeff_&_Kelli wrote:
I don't know about these crash sites but there are crash sites where Air Force, Marine, and Navy pilots have lost their lives during training missions. My nephew who is in the AF lost two of his friends in a night training crash a couple years ago. Just wanted visitors to be aware and respectful.

That's a very good point. But on the flipside, it's to bad the military isn't respectful enough to clean up those crash sites.

Some crash sites, the pilot / pilots are unrecoverable making them a grave site or memorial.

[The_Mad_Norsky]

Thanks c.traveler2.

I started a new topic on this so as not to hijack this thread.

[c_traveler2]

The Mad Norsky wrote:
I don't know so might as well ask.

Being relatively new to truck camping, I noted in the video where the tie downs were loosened while on the rough stretch of trail.

I've read others doing this, recalling Jefe4X4 mentioned this in a post.

Is there any particular rule of thumb, so to speak, where a person should do this?

Speed limit while loosened?? Common sense of course, but is there one?????

Any other factors to be considered when running tie downs loosened for trail purposes???

Unfortunately there's no set rules regarding "how loose can they be", you simply have to experiment till you find what's work with your rig, even a change in suspension can change how you adjust your tie-downs.

[The_Mad_Norsky]

Deleted post. Figured it would hijack the thread. Not right thing to do.

[RZAR66]

Camper_Jeff_&_Kelli wrote:
I don't know about these crash sites but there are crash sites where Air Force, Marine, and Navy pilots have lost their lives during training missions. My nephew who is in the AF lost two of his friends in a night training crash a couple years ago. Just wanted visitors to be aware and respectful.

That's a very good point. But on the flipside, it's to bad the military isn't respectful enough to clean up those crash sites.

[The_Mad_Norsky]

Neat. Absolutely neat!

Loved the video too.

Well done to all!

[Camper_Jeff___K]

I don't know about these crash sites but there are crash sites where Air Force, Marine, and Navy pilots have lost their lives during training missions. My nephew who is in the AF lost two of his friends in a night training crash a couple years ago. Just wanted visitors to be aware and respectful.

[RZAR66]

Cool TR. I did not know there were crash sites out there. I will have to go check it out in the near future.

[c_traveler2]

It was our pleasure to meet with Nolan (anutami) and his family, he showed us a few sights including two cash sites. Oriflamme Canyon campsite was gorgeous, it was too bad no water was flowing in the creek, it was drier than a empty JD bottle.

Leaving Oriflamme Canyon,click on photo

[whazoo]

Looking for jet wreckage? That's just plane crazy but looks like a good fun trip from the jet set, thanks Nolan and Alex.

[trackhead]

Cool. I will be there Wednesday.

[Tiger4x4RV]

Nice TR. thanks for sharing your adventure.

[MORSNOW]

Thanks for sharing again anutami!