Pedro was driving his newly acquired 1995 Montero LS running 33" Super Swamper Thornbirds and I was driving my 1990 4 door with an LSD and 33" BFG All Terrains.
We left San Diego at around 8 pm Tuesday night and arrived at Arch Canyon at 8 am the next morning. We wer tired from the long drive and slept the majority of the day. I awoke that afternoon and decided to explre the area.
I found an interesting trail and ended up doing about half of the Hotel Rock Trail before deciding to turn around and wait for Lloyd as the trail was getting difficult and I didn't want to get stuck solo. Lloyd wasn't scheduled to arrive until Thursday night so we dicided to run the Arch Canyon trail the next day.
The trail ends at a beautiful campsite underneath some pine trees. The trail takes about 4-5 hous both ways depending on how much time is taken to stop, and explore.
We returned to camp that evening and waited for Lloyd's arrival. We were kind of anxious because we had never met Lloyd and only previously exchanged E-mail.
Lloyd and his friend Leroy came skidding into camp around 8 that evening in his 1993 SR with locker on 33" BFG Mud Terrains & Hydraulic winch. We exchanged introductions and immediately began to talk Montero's.
It's great being in the presence of a fellow Montero owner especially after being the "loner" for so long!! We sat around the campfire that night and talked Montero's. By the end of the evening we decided to run Hotel Rock the next day.