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Vehicle #1. This unassuming black Range Rover is the one that started it all. Back in late 1995, I was none too happy to have my mom's old car foisted on me. That changed the first time I followed some friends back behind the nearby Sam's Club and first experienced "offroading". Looking back a decade later, it was pretty lame, but I was hooked.
Over the next several months, the Rover and I became great buds, but two pretty severe accidents tweaked the frames and the problems just began appearing left and right, so in the summer of 1996 my parents decided to replace the Range Rover with what, to me, was the coolest vehicle on the planet.
Deep rutting caused by illegal off-road motorcycling. This track, carved out by bikers, leads to the path which goes up to the top of the mountain and the Blaen Bran reentrant rim. There is a similar “track” further on. Nearer the Mountain Air car park, where the main track branches off, there is a brand new gate (see adjacent image) to deter off-road motorcyclists?!?!
One of a pair of illegal off-roaders on the track above the Mountain Air. They were later joined by the usual pack.
Taken from my car while slooooooowly driving south on the 190 this morning. There was a big accident around here this morning, big enough that they flat out closed a section of the 190 during the morning rush-hour.
My greater knowledge of the territory (aided by having used my GPS to avoid traffic jams at this point before) meant that once I got off the Interstate, I had a really easy drive to work. Everyone else crammed themselves down onto Kenmore Ave. I slipped away in an empty lane to River Road and thence back onto the 190 past the closure.
Oh, and also, I didn't take a single interesting picture today. So this is what you're stuck with. Sorry!