This is a late addition to this blog detailing the upgrade of our Born Free (BF) to 4x4 and Al's trip home from Salt Lake City (SLC). Start with this entry and continue to newer posts to follow my trip.
July 28, 2011, Thursday, Day 1
Pick up BF after 4x4 conversion.
I got up at
4am (3am SLC time) for a 6:30am flight.
Our son, Brett, picked me up at 4:45am and dropped me off at the airport. Very nice of him to get up that early. My flight & connecting flight in Denver were both on time
and I arrived in SLC at 9:44, and got to Advanced 4x4 a little before
11am. I spent an hour with Randy the
owner, going over all the hardware they installed. Randy & I slid under BF on creepers so he
could show me all the parts & pieces.
I filled up BF with fresh water at their shop & took off. First stop was gas at Sam’s Club & food
at Walmart. Then it was on to my first
nights stop, about 80 miles from SLC. I
spent the night at Unicorn Ridge CG, 7 miles up Sheep’s Creek Rd, about 8 miles
E of Thistle, UT on US6. Elevation about
7600’. Unicorn Ridge CG has 5 large,
mostly level, well spaced apart with picnic table, grill & concrete fire
pit. One concrete vault toilet. A very
nice free CG. I am pretty sure this is a
winter staging area for snowmobile riders. There was a map on the information
post showing the groomed snowmobile roads.
Pictures of
the new front axle:
Pictures of Unicorn
Ridge CG
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