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Old 06-30-2020, 07:54 PM   #16
Terri Kennedy
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I have done a fair amount of crazy stuff - here is the wagon overlooking the Old Spanish Trail:



This used to be a popular spot for manufacturers to take still "beauty shots" of their vehicles. What I didn't know when I drove up there was that they brought their vehicles in with helicopters, not the trail. The BLM put large boulders across the trail the next year to prevent anyone else from doing this.

But the craziest stuff (some unintentional) was what I did in the Atom. It has been on both the lowest (-282 feet, Badwater Basin) and highest (14,260', Mount Evans) roads in the US. Those were on purpose. One time I mistakenly moved the slider on my PC-based navigation too far away from "prefer highways" and ended up doing rock crawling on the Wagon Mound Cutoff of the Santa Fe Trail. When I got down off the mountain I ended up in somebody's pasture and had to get them to open the gate so I could get back onto a paved road.
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