Charouleau Gap trip report and pics!

Victor (VCamilo) with Stephanie and I met up in Oracle, Az. this morning. The clouds were in the sky and it was cold (by southern Arizona standards). As we were airing down at the trail entrance a light snow began to fall. Not enough to stick. There was no dust toay...just mud!...and rocks! :bwgy:
So lets get started...
Somewhere near the start
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Starting up the "elevator shaft"...a long steep climb
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The upper part of the shaft
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Just some more desert scenery
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Canada Del Oro River...with rare desert water!
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Playing in the rocky river bed
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Sporting my new liscence plate :naughty:
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Looks like lots of fun, with great scenery Billy. Wish I could have been there...

Will miss you at Zu this year. Victor - you planning on making it?

-biju.

p.s. - I like the personalized plates! Did you just get em'?

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Next obstacle was "the step". I gave it several tries but was denied! :mady:
The pics do it no justice...it is steep and kept pitching my front drivers side tire into the air.
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The strap had Victor on the other end to keep me from going over :smack:
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Coronado camp...
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Back in the river bed
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This sign was 8ish miles into the trail...just in case you haven't figured it out by this point :laughy:
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Potty break!
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And this little jem was on the way out :_drool:
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Victor should have some more pics. I will post the video once I get it all sorted out.
I only got stuck once! Required a bit of a tug with the strap to get un-high centered! :bwgy: But hey, you haven't been wheeling until you've been on the recieving end of a strap

Bij...Got the plates a week ago :thumbup: Thought it went well with my wheeling :rotate:

Dude's already got some calendar photos ready for NEXT year! ;)

Nice work!

Thank you! LOVE to live through others' adventures while I'm stuck in Chi-Town! Thanks! :thumbup:

As promised...Here is the VIDEO
Unfortunately the host quality isn't to great.

Great pictures and amazing video!