Extreme 4 Wheelin'
Illinois River Balloonfest, Aug 18th 2007
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Welcome to the Balloonfest show for 2007.  This year we have hills, holes, even more Rocks, lots of dust, a couple roll-overs (wonder who that would be), and lots of broken trucks.

The course is really dry, so the Tahlequah FD is helping out by putting down a little water.  Well, it is the thought that counts, right.. ;)

It's now time to kick things off.  We have Hamid and Norm testing out the dirt challenges.

Then of course myself testing out the ditches.

We have Ken in the green beast and Earl on the rocks.

Henry and myself take a couple lines thru the rocks. 
Thanks to the city crew, it's a bigger rock pile this year with room for more than one truck.

The crew built us an awesome hill climb. 
Plenty of tire in the air action on the climb up and just skimming the back tires on the way down..  :)

I love the ditches, but sometimes a bit too much...
This lady got more of a ride than I had planned.
Thanks to a push from the guy, we were able to quickly continue on..

Now Earl is out giving rides in the Rubi.

This is like big & little rock crawlers...

Now Jeff's taking his CJ thru the rocks.

And this is were we loose a couple more trucks.  Ken breaks a front link trying to cross this hole.  Then Henry's motor dies for some unknown reason.   Hamid was already out from a leaf spring problem and Norm dies for, well I never heard why, but he broke as well.

Special thanks to the city of Tahlequah and the great equipment operators who built the course. 
Thanks to Hamid, and Larry for course directions.

And THANKS to Kay and Leonard (and anyone else I may not have seen) for taking my camera and shooting these great pictures!