I had a great time! I did catch some flak from my 2 non-Element friends who came with me about going to some car club meetup, but whatever... I had fun and so did they!

Anyway, here are some pictures from the meet... you can find the rest here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sheniferous/sets/72057594091592058/

I believe if you have a flickr account you can download the higher resolution versions of the pictures!


The rock that we would be climbing:
http://static.flickr.com/55/118589977_feb4c85258.jpg

Box4Rox giving us the safety briefing:
http://static.flickr.com/45/118590052_f6425c3055.jpg

Box4Rox again, just about to give us a climbing demonstration:
http://static.flickr.com/45/118590223_74775d5a11.jpg

A view from the top...
http://static.flickr.com/42/118590322_3d1b45ab1c.jpg

Box4Rox's ride:
http://static.flickr.com/56/118590385_f3d85dd8f1.jpg

All the E's lined up (except MsMarvel... who left early!!!!):
http://static.flickr.com/43/118590442_0da4e6a66c.jpg

All the owners (and their dogs):
http://static.flickr.com/32/118590513_9a02a3e9c3.jpg

Hey, nice pictures, Shen!
Here is the collective E pic from Saturday afternoon:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v399/MadamX/Bob/IMG_4320.jpg
Elements L to R: Box4Rox, MsMarvel/Johnsonwax, MotelE, Ferrum, Sheniferous, Eleric, Miss Ellie, Mago, and ?? (arrived Sat. - sorry, didn't get your name!)

8 year old Andrew on his climb!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v399/MadamX/Bob/IMG_4313.jpg.http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v399/MadamX/Bob/IMG_4316.jpg

We're so bummed that we bailed on Saturday night but the wind was too much for me to handle. I was cold, too, and didn't have a coat. Brrrr. I'll be better prepared next time, I promise!

It was GREAT to meet everyone!

Thanks again to Box4Rox for inviting us to the group sites and the awesome climbing school!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v399/MadamX/Bob/IMG_4310.jpg.http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v399/MadamX/Bob/IMG_4312.jpg.http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v399/MadamX/IMG_4325.jpg.http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v399/MadamX/IMG_4327.jpg

Those E's look pretty cool all lined up in a row.....

:D Great Pics...good combination of rocks, kids and E's:grin:

Thats soooo cool! :D:D I'm moving to norcal in two weeks-- have another meet and I'll drive down :):)

waaaahhh I wanted to be there :cry::cry::cry:

Great pics everyone... thanks for posting them :)

I had a great time! I did catch some flak from my 2 non-Element friends who came with me about going to some car club meetup, but whatever... I had fun and so did they!
Anyway, here are some pictures from the meet...

Very cool Lin-E-up! :cool:

Toaster convention ... Scion meet ...

They make fun of us because they are jealous and/or afraid of us.

Climbing rock at J tree ...
Some people made it look easy, like a walk in the park.
Others went the way of the spider.

Yet others chose to toe the line or finger the cracks, depending on which appendage was free.

Did anyone else notice those four guys standing around in the desert across the road about 200 yards to the north of us when we left on Sunday? They were just gazing off into the distance and not talking. I'm pretty sure that was U2. Man, that Bono still hasn't found what he's looking for. They musta been there all night in that wind, too! Rock stars...

The winds ripped 2 canopies/shelters, and downed 2 others on Sat.
Boxer managed to get his tent up in the cold evening, amidst the strongest gusts.
After Sat night, no mere rock was going to stand in Boxer's way.
The next morning, he HEEed and HAWed and even squeaked at one point.
His children lost interest and he lost his way ...

..but the rock would not win on this day.

Boxer: I'm the King of the World! Now get me down and out of these straps!

Sorry, I took liberties with some of my descriptions.

When rock climbing you want your belayer to have steady hands, a steady voice and unwavering gaze (think Clint Eastwood). Basically you want them to be solid, like a rock. The worst thing to hear when you are climbing is the sound of your belayer answering his cell phone.

A big thank you to Mike for organizing this and instructing us. Only after I got down from my 2nd climb did I realise what a big risk this was. Thank you also to Larry and Thomas, friends of Mike who helped with belay duty. Like I said, your calm demeanors mattered when it mattered most. I'm only sorry that we were not succesfull in getting you to like our vehicles.

OK Sheniferous don't ban me for posting all these photos. You can take down the picture of me, my vehicle (Ferrum) or my bird (Bob), but I think people will enjoy seeing most of the photos I posted, right?
I have to post these great pictures of Carol and her huskie mix, Vickie, presiding over campsite 5. I have another good one of Obie and a cowboy in his PJs. I only wished I had taken photos of everydog and everyone who was there.

Time was short and cut even shorter by beastly traffic. The elements were harsh on us Element owners. Sat night was like a nightmare of extreme cold, the wind slapping us around, and conversations of crazy stalkers. I nodded of by the campfire and would wake alternately to sparks/embers in my face and suffocating smoke.

What do you say we try it again this weekend? Only thing I would do different is to avoid being caught in traffic. Has anyone posted plans on how to add rotor and blades to the E to make it fly?

I enjoyed looking at them all. Looks like it was a great time. :D

Wow

Looks like a fab time. Thanks for the Photos, wish I had been with you.

That's one rock that won't fit in the Box!:D

Great Photos!

Great photo's!! Looks like everyone had a good time.

Great pics, everyone! Thanks for sharing. :D

Hey guys, if you were trying to download and save the images from my Flickr page and weren't able to, try again now. I had my permissions set of private but I changed that.

When you click on a photo on my flickr album, right above the upper left of the picture there's a button that says "all sizes". Click that and you can download the full res versions of the pictures!

Oh... and those who didn't show up really did miss a great trip... just look at all the stars!

http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/1729/stars3zp.jpg

Oh... and those who didn't show up really did miss a great trip... just look at all the stars!

Awesome shot, Shen!

Great job with the photos Shen . . .

West Coast is lucky to have you as a Mod :)

Here's an action shot of our Photo-Mod Supreme taking some of these great pics we are all viewing . . .

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a246/box4rox/Club%20Meets/EOCJT7.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a246/box4rox/Club%20Meets/ShensShot.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a246/box4rox/Club%20Meets/EOCJT6.jpg

Mere words cannot describe the great time we had at Joshua Tree in the company of E peeps. What a crew!

Saturday night winds we're a bit much as it collapsed our new tent while we were in it, forcing us to bail out into our Element for a late candlelight dinner, where we sipped champagne and nodded off into dreamland while listening to XM. Very nice.

Sunday morning our brand new tent looked like giant pretzel that had gotten run over by a steam roller but it survived unscathed so we figured we got a pretty damn good tent.

Saturday during the day a Church Van stops in front of the pits at the base of the rocks at Element Central claiming that we were in their Group Camp site. Thier "go to guy", some knuckle head who's wearing a T-Shirt with a crucifix crown of thorns logo plastered on the front of it says they got reservations here and we gotta move out! So Glenn looks at this guy's reservations and sees thats it's for the month of "June" and this is still March. "Hey, your a little bit early huh? No problem if you don't mind waiting a bit... like 60 days!"
Needless to say Mr. Church Guy leaves mumbling and talking under his breath to himself. guess he was surprised to find that not everyone is as dumb as he is. What a world.

So we got a taste of what it's like to hang with the big dogs and wonderful peeps in the EOC. I can tell any EOC member from where ever it is you might be from, that Element owners are every bit as wonderful as the vehicles that they drive, and then some! So the next time a EOC outing is happening.. for god's sake people... attend the thing!!!

You will have a really, really good time. Guaranteed!


Miss Ellie :grin:

. . . but I think people will enjoy seeing most of the photos I posted, right?
I have to post these great pictures of Carol and her huskie mix, Vickie, presiding over campsite 5. I have another good one of Obie and a cowboy in his PJs. I only wished I had taken photos of everydog and everyone who was there.

. . . .

Melissa -

Your photos are great - it was very nice to meet you. :)

Here's what I got for the "EOC Dogs" that attended . . . Vickie, Ernie, Middy (I think that was the name . . . ?) and Obi. I didn't get an Ernie pic . . . hopefully someone else will post it.

All the names end with the "E" sound . . . go figure :cool:

Middy came all the way from Phoenix; same place Obi was hatched (small world) . . . Today is Obi's 1 year B-Day.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a246/box4rox/Club%20Meets/EOCJT3.jpg
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a246/box4rox/Club%20Meets/EOCJT16copy.jpg
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http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a246/box4rox/Club%20Meets/EOCJT12.jpg

A couple more . . . Proof of something we've always known; women take nice climbing photos (they always remember to smile):)

(sorry guys, these two are spoken for . . . )

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a246/box4rox/Club%20Meets/EOCJT10.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a246/box4rox/Club%20Meets/EOCJT9.jpg

Did anyone else notice those four guys standing around in the desert across the road about 200 yards to the north of us when we left on Sunday? They were just gazing off into the distance and not talking. I'm pretty sure that was U2. Man, that Bono still hasn't found what he's looking for. They musta been there all night in that wind, too! Rock stars...

Hey Ric, Ha Ha Ha. I think I seen them there too! U2 has always been rock historians of sorts. Here's probably the main reason U2 went to Joshua Tree and named thier album after it....

Did you know that Joshua Tree has more rock stars than just U2 hanging off it's collective limbs? Gram Parsons who fronted the 60's first real country rock band The Flying Burrito Bros. made it famous when he died of a drug overdose at the Joshua Tree Inn on Sept.19, 1973 at the age of 26.

Gram had said that when he died he wanted to be set on fire and buried at Joshua Tree where he loved to hang out and write songs. Where after his Road Mgr. Phil Kaufman and a friend got very intoxicated and borrowed a broken down hearse and hijacked Gram's body from LAX with some forged paper work. They returned to Joshua Tree stopping only for more beer and a gallon of gasoline. Then they poured the gas into his coffin and set it on fire only to be arrested later for buring a coffin. There were no laws on the books for burning a corpse at the time. Gram's charred body now resides in a small cemetary in New Orleans.

Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones was a good friend of Gram's too and he would hang at Joshua Tree and get zoned out with Gram and write songs together. The Stone's epic "Exile on Main Street" is heavily influenced by Gram Parsons and the song Country Honk is a tribute to him. So is the Byrd's country influenced "Sweethearts of the Rodeo" album which Gram Parsons produced and played on. Janis Joplin also loved hanging out at Joshua Tree.

Jim Morrison and the Doors use to pracitcally live there. Eating LSD and writting songs. The Eagles were also very fond of Joshua Tree.

America's "Horse with No Name" was inspired by Joshua Tree. U2's classic
"Streets Have No Name" (see the simarlarity?) from thier Joshua Tree album in my opinion is all about Gram. I don't know that as a fact but I do believe it to be so. Next time I bump into Bono I will ask him about it. LOL!
Pretty cool info huh?

Miss Ellie / Gene

Thanks for the action shot Box4Rox!!

Honda should've come out and had a good time with us as they watch their E getting used for what it was designed for... even if they were off their target demographic by a tad!

Honda! If you're reading this... you should come to our next meetup (only 5 minutes away from your corporate office) and give us free swag. I love swag!

... you should come to our next meetup (only 5 minutes away from your corporate office)

(Edited) I found the announcement for the Torrance mEEtup! Here's the link (http://www.elementownersclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22245).

:-D cool pix! wish i was there. dang:twisted: .

Rock'in Climbers!

Rock'in Climbers 2!

Rock'in Climbers 3!

Rock'in Climbers 4!

Rock'in Climbers 5!

Excellent pics, CDI'ER!

Rock'in Climbers 5!

Those Tear Drops are great.:cool: ... But $$$$... I want one!:twisted:

Those Tear Drops are great.:cool: ... But $$$$... I want one!:twisted:

Thanks !! Here's a few more Tear Drop pics . . . The E tows these things really well :)

and . . .

Great Pics CDI'ER - thanks for adding to the album :cool:


http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a246/box4rox/teardrop/EOCJT17.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a246/box4rox/teardrop/EOCJT18.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a246/box4rox/teardrop/JtreeTD2.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a246/box4rox/Club%20Meets/EOCJT13.jpg

I love those campers. They look so cool behind the "E". Thanks for posting the pics.

Oh... and those who didn't show up really did miss a great trip... just look at all the stars!

http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/1729/stars3zp.jpg

wow stars are so bright they are shining right through your face. ;)

I'm such a slacker. Am I really the last one to post my pics? I changed my screen name from "AIG" (always in gear) to "JP'S E" it's so much easier to remember.

I know your eyes in the morning sun...
http://jp.teardrophouse.com/ElementOwners/146_4666.JPG

The view that greeted me when I got to Joshua Tree
http://jp.teardrophouse.com/ElementOwners/146_4669.JPG

This is the look of COURAGE!
http://jp.teardrophouse.com/ElementOwners/146_4670.JPG

I gotta use the Toilet really bad! Actually that first walk down is unforgettable. I'm still not sure how I survived it.
http://jp.teardrophouse.com/ElementOwners/146_4674.JPG

We're just hanging out.
http://jp.teardrophouse.com/ElementOwners/146_4677.JPG

You can do it! You can do it all _____ long.
http://jp.teardrophouse.com/ElementOwners/146_4680.JPG

I almost dropped my camera taking this pic.
http://jp.teardrophouse.com/ElementOwners/146_4681.JPG

My eyes must of been closed when I took this picture. It's so dark.
http://jp.teardrophouse.com/ElementOwners/146_4683.JPG
next post.. i hit the 8 pic limit.

This has gotta be my favorite picture of the event. It makes my flat butt look full. Was that appropriate to say?
http://jp.teardrophouse.com/ElementOwners/146_4688.JPG

The windiest clouds ever are coming our way in the background. If god let out a furious fart (minus the smell), it was at Joshua Tree that night.
http://jp.teardrophouse.com/ElementOwners/146_4691.JPG

I got my money on green, no white. I don't know who's going to get to the top.
http://jp.teardrophouse.com/ElementOwners/146_4693.JPG

Nothing brings people together like a campfire. Awhh.
http://jp.teardrophouse.com/ElementOwners/147_4701.JPG

Nothing makes people scatter like a ghost! I have no idea what that light is.
http://jp.teardrophouse.com/ElementOwners/147_4707.JPG

The rock we climbed, Hodge Podge (coincidently), and the Elements. Look how comfortable they are in the wild.
http://jp.teardrophouse.com/ElementOwners/147_4714.JPG

Just another view of Joshua Tree, beautiful park. If you haven't made the trip you should, but maybe not during the summer.
http://jp.teardrophouse.com/ElementOwners/147_4717.JPG

THANK YOU MIKE! IT WAS GREAT MEETING EVERYONE! HOPE TO DO IT AGAIN! THANKS TO EVERYBODY THAT CAME!

From the East Coast.......
great gathering you guys, sometime we'll have to meet in the middle of the country.....
jurn

wow stars are so bright they are shining right through your face. ;)

and the mountain line is coming through the pants....????

I'm such a slacker. Am I really the last one to post my pics? I changed my screen name from "AIG" (always in gear) to "JP'S E" it's so much easier to remember.



Good pics JP . . . :)

I was wondering who the "Other Arizona Guy" was . . . I never caught your screen name at the outing.

Hope to see you at another West Coaster soon :cool:

(think Tahoe, think Tahoe, think Tahoe . . .)