February 6 - 11, 2011
King of the Hammers!!!
I can not tell you how excited I was leading up to this event and how excited I am for next years event. Dustin and I went last year for the first time and vowed to go every year after. So 2011 was our 2nd year going to this event. And boy was it fun! I will admit it may not have been as much fun as the first year but how can you compare to the first time you do anything. This year we knew our way around "Hammertown" and "Backdoor". We got to Hammertown early in the week. Dustin and I left Lakeport @ 10:30pm on Sunday and drove straight 12 hours thru the night, getting to Hammertown @ 10:30am on Monday.
For those who don't know what King of the Hammers is, here is short back story...
5 years ago 11 guys set out to make a race showcasing Desert Racing and Rock Crawling. They wanted to see what type of rig would make it to the finish line after a grueling 6-8 hour race through the desert. So King of the Hammers was born.
This year we brought our brand new/used Weekend Warrior (see The Warrior...). It was SUPER nice having a trailer out in the desert with the wind and dust. I was able to use a potty and take a shower. A couple weeks earlier we traded our '83 Toyota for a Rhino and Quad. I was sad to see The Midge go but excited for the new toys (they fit better in The Warrior). We left Hammertown on Saturday after a GREAT week in the Mojave Desert watching a GREAT race and hanging out with GREAT friends!
Dustin, Khloe and I enjoyed a couple of days by ourselves which allowed us to go exploring together and let Khloe run free...
Khloe loved the wind at the top of the hills...
Khloe got to be the Queen of the campsite...
Finally when the rest of Team Yodaism arrived it was time for some fun...
Rigs lined up waiting for their turn to try to go up Waterfall @ Backdoor (these are all personal rig, none of these were race rigs)...
Matt in the Rasin trying to get up the Waterfall @ Backdoor (that's Dustin in the Passenger seat)...
Team Yodaism waiting their turn to go up Chocolate Thunder...
(Bernie, Ed, Matt)
Ed and the Girls going up Jackhammer...
Whoops...Rollover @ Backdoor...
Half of Hammertown on the left and Backdoor on the right...
Race for the front in the middle of Chocolate Thunder...
Walls of people @ Backdoor...
Here is a picture of race day (Friday) looking into Hammertown when everyone was scrambling around...
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