Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Hollister Hills Off-Road Birthday Party

      Well another year older, these birthdays seem to be sneaking up sooner and sooner these days. Been scoping out the weather for a while now and we just happened to have a good 2 day break from the rain for my birthday on the 17th.

     My brother and Chris and Colin came to stay at my house friday evening in Santa Cruz and we loaded up early Saturday and headed towards Hollister to meet up with some friends from Santa Barbara who had camped there the night before. Arrived around noon to blue skies and a perfect day. We were eager to get on the trail so Ira in his Coilovered Tacoma and I took off on some trails.

I instantly got myself on a bad line and was dragging pretty far sideways not being able to go forward or reverse without flopping on my side. Some Austin Powering later we were all good and onto the Jungle Trail.



     Jungle had been washed out pretty bad since I was last here which made it fun. There was alot of poison oak on the trail though so you had to be careful of all the branches coming into the truck.


     Next we hit the V-notch trail which turned pretty hairy after a while. My friend in the red toyota fell into the crack and got his truck wedged in and I had to go around and winch him out.









      Ran some more trails and then back to camp around 6 where we made some drinks and dinner and chilled in the sun. We struggled with a fire for a while because the wood was wet but at about 10pm Dustin showed up from Santa Barbara with a whole truck full of wood and we dumped in on making a nice raging fire.
      Things were heating up when Colin brought out the costco sized bottle of Tequila and we started getting wild. I have a 800k volt stun baton in my van and Colin volunteered to get tazered bringing him to the ground, was good times. The rangers showed up later telling us we were being to loud and to calm down which we did but only a little bit. They never came back and we all had a great night.







    Just what I needed for my birthday, good friends, good weather and no major breakage.

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