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What I learned at WinterFest

1) Even the people of attica look at you funny when you drive into town in the cold and rain with a jeep that wins the ugliest award.
2) Every year I leave winterfest with more wheeling buddies.
3) MWC does not like Palinka
4) I want Troy's (owner of Badlands) house
 
1. stock xjs can wheel really well
2. I gotta get my tow points on by next year so i can take mine out and not just ride on the official runs
3. Make sure you have a multi meter theres never one around when you need it
 
WF is still fun without bringing a Jeep.
I will have a Jeep to bring next year.
A hotel is worth it.
Brian's rig makes stuff seem easy.
Steve earned his award in more ways than one.
Irony is when one vendor wins another vendor's products in the raffle.
Bob Loose can wheel Badlands and not break.
Camille puts up with a lot of nonsense :D
 
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this that discosteve learned.


-Stay away from the cattails
-Dad didnt find the blown motor as funny as i did
-i have an awesome dad for going above and beyond to come get his dumbass sons blown up jeep.
-pregnant women think im an asshole
-dan wheeler is a cool dad
-brendan.... nothing more to say.
-macgyver can slowdance really well
-a leisure suit is a magnet for mud
-people like you when you bring strange exotic beverages to the fire.

this weekend was the best weekend ive had with my clothes on.
 
1. You can break a D300 behind a 4.0 I6
2. I still bring too much stuff on the trail
3. The beadlocked wheels and tires you sold to a guy in MI can bounce off the trailer funny and roll into someone's tent :)
4. Grace will strap in and ride through stuff that would make other people run and hide
5. You can wheel MI without body damage
6. You can scare the crap out of Brendan on MI
7. If you don't finish your traction bar, you'll break your tcase output.
8. If you leave HoBag's wife in the back of your jeep with the heat on, she'll take a nap
9. I still hate mud
10. When you need it, your heep will provide another 1/2 inch of go pedal
11. Desperate women WILL yell your name across the campground
12. Wherever Susie sits at the campfire, someone will stand in front of her

When someone tells you something bad will happen, something bad will happen.
 
turtlexj said:
3. Make sure you have a multi meter theres never one around when you need it
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I had one. lol

Things I learned....
1. No matter what you do the tents still going to flood
2. A jeep with 230500 miles can make a 3 hour drive, wheel two days and make a 3 hour drive home no problems.
3. Electric blankets will fail when you need them.
4. Everyone in NAXJA is really friendly
5. Porceline heaters can have an inch of water in the bottom of them and stil work.
6. MWC Campfires are amazing.

Had an amazing time. Cant wait for next year.
 
My girlfriend requires a case of water per weekend...if she doesn't get it, we wind up in the ER.
Rain makes you colder than snow.
I can coach my newb up an obstacle that a built rig turned away from...but returned to not be showed up.
I'm still amazed at what a stocker will do.
WF cigars are growing in popularity, next year there will be 40.
Sway bar disconnects are badass!
Mac & Grace can put a tear in my eye.
You can have your ass on fire and your face on ice at the campfire.
Turkey still brings much win.
I'm still getting to know people better and it makes me like them better.
Some drunk guy knows my rig's stock specs :circles finger in air, whoopty doo: and still gets something wrong.
I never get tired of seeing the same faces, even if those same faces are tired. *pic of Tyler coming to a thread near you*
I will correct someone on their own name...sorry Tim. I was drinkin. :D
Rev is really happy that Mega-Megz and I are happy.
JohnD is close friends with a dent repair guy and utilizes that friendship.
My welded in rocker/sliders do work.
You feel unprepared the whole drive there, and over prepared when packing to go home.
Setting up and tearing down isn't so fun in 25mph winds.
Hitting trees is contagious.
Mega-Megz is a great trail rider.
Crimson is used to the trail enough to sleep through most of it.
HoBag is awesome!
JJ is cooler than ever.
$100 in raffle tix goes a long way.
Sean likes people more than he leads on in his posts.
I thought I was loud...then there was Rosco Racin'. Great group of guys and gals!
Jason is clutch!
Our supporting vendors are supporting vendors.
There are worse things than not being able to bolt on a winch in the parking lot.
A lot of people think I'm going to be a good dad.......
Maybe we should have a MWC baby shower.
Something I knew before but had to reiterate: I love my NAXJA family!
 
I learned........



Well I pretty much learned that it is still cold up north this time of year (as it has been the past couple years)

Winch cables leave marks that look a lot like hickies

Campfire still rocks

SeanR can make good when he screws up hahaha

Dan well.... Hi Dan

Tyler gets more and more gray hair the longer he is president

Having a hot shower and a hotel room is well worth it

Oh and I learned that I have self control when a beer can is thrown

Hobag is as good as tits


All and all even if I have to actually pay for the trip next year I will still be there

Thanks for all the good times
 
Also learned:
people hate obnoxious lights pointed toward the campfire :D
Byron drives a swiss army knife
Collins tow rig is Badass
Jason and Josh look an awful lot alike
 
As usual, seems like a good time. So I learned I need to plan way ahead and make it no matter what.

:yelclap: True story!
macgyvr said:
ChiXJeff and Flex have the same dentist.
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I believe I warned against that.
Mega-Megz said:
You can't have anything against the walls of a tent.
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I learned:

I get funny looks when I show up with a running jeep on a trailor.

JIM.
 
Things I learned...

1. No matter how many times I go to the Badlands I cannot follow their trail signs and I get lost.
2. Three tired and sick kids can piss your wife off enough to say they aren’t coming next year (I think I can save it though).
3. A 5.3L V8 is a LOT more fun on the dunes than a 4.0L.
4. You can break on the trail, run to NAPA, fix your Jeep and return without missing anything.
5. Everyone in NAXJA (at least at Winterfest) is friendly.
6. Rev can say some really great things at a wedding that remind you to appreciate your wife.
7. There can be a lot of irony in a raffle drawing (thinking of the stuff Brian won).
8. Dale (dgrigorenko) will lead you to places in the park you have never been before if you let him.
9. I can wheel longer than anyone else even with said kids and wife (last ones out on Saturday).
10. I will be buying beer for my Dent Mender friend again.
11. The Hampton Inn in Layfeyette turned out to be money well spent.
 
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