RattleSnack Canyon at Five Mile Pass

A bunch of us went out to five mile pass to a trail called Rattlesnack canyon. We had a blast! It wasn't that difficult of a trail but everything feels difficult in the Mog just because you are so dang high off the ground.


Crawling up this obstacle......



This doesn't look that high but it sure felt high. You have to remember those are 42" tires


and climbing up over the obstacle. This was the only obstacle worth taking pictures of but it was really fun to get out and enjoy the outdoors.

Checker Auto Rocks

So lots has gone on with the Unimog. We got it professionally wrapped for our Real Estate company and it looks awesome. I will be posting some pictures to show you how it turned out. We were having problems with the batteries and the Unimog runs on 24 volt power so that means (2) 12 volt batteries for the Unimog and (2) 12 volt batteries for the camper. All four batteries needed to be replaced and were purchased at Checker Auto. So we took them in and guess what? They replaced all four batteries. It runs like a champ now and the battery issue has been put to rest. Thank you Checker Auto!

Dead Batteries

So we've been dealing with this since we bought the Unimog. This has not been easy because it has two batteries for the camper portion of the Unimog and then two batteries for the truck. The system is all 24 volt which nobody seems to work on....so somewhere we are draining the batteries. After doing some investigation we also found out that the camper batteries are not deep cycle which means they are not meant to be run down and charged back up multiple times = Useless batteries at this point.

The solution is a battery cut off switch. I will be installing two of these on the outside of the battery box as a fail safe way to cut the battery power while not in use.

In addition to the battery cut off switches new deep cycle batteries for the camper portion. I will post pictures after the installation.

Shrink Wrap

So it's been awhile and I've decided its time to start posting again. The Unimog is in the shop getting shrinkwrapped. We are wrapping it with logo and graphics for our Real Estate company. I will post a shot of the finished product when its done.

Unimog Trailer

Check this trailer out. I thought it was really cool. It is made from a camp trailer with hard sides (Not canvas) so it is really great in cold weather and wind. The camper was then put on a Unimog trailer. This trailer has air assisted brakes and leveling jackes.

Wouldn't this look cool behind my mog?

This would be cool because the Unimog only sleeps two. This way we could bring a bunch of people along.

Let it snow

Woke up to a nice snow storm this morning.


It's time to get it out of the driveway and test out her snow legs.

Moab 2007

I haven't downloaded my digital camera in a long time and came across all these pictures. I thought I would post on our trip to Moab, UT in March last year. It was a lot of fun! We have been going to Moab since I was in Highschool and it's been hit and miss on this trip for the past couple of years. Some of the group camped while others got a motel. I hav had my Landrover Defender for about 7 years now. I haven't been to Moab with the Unimog yet but will be going this year for sure.







Here is the first little drop off if we took. It feels worse than it looks and it was the first trail we went on. This is on Fins N Things.









































Here is Trent (my brother in law) driving his new FJ Cruiser down a steep incline. The FJ did great with one exception, clearance. As you can see from this photo he's pushing a little sand.















On this obstacle Ann said "Ok if I'm ever going to overcome this I've got to stay in....she did (stay in that is)
You can see how steep this is. That's Trent sticking out his hand in case we tip backwards, as if that would do anything. This was a blast!
The look on Ann's face says it all
I love this picture of Ann looking back.