"ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com" (ita97)
05/27/2019 at 12:41 • Filed to: None
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"ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com" (ita97)
05/27/2019 at 12:41 • Filed to: None | 6
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I took the library drinking club out camping this weekend to the San Mateo mountains in Western NM. A complete write up will be coming, but for now have some mediocre pictures of the abandoned trucks just before entering the forest boundary. This is out on the San Agustin plain, where the Very Large Array is at about 7,000ft in elevation.
Paging O.C the Tork Dorque: this one was probably running within the last few years
Ran when parked?
Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
05/27/2019 at 13:39 |
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What do these have in common? Less rust than 20 year old trucks in Virginia.
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ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
05/27/2019 at 13:42 |
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And this is a relatively “wet” area of NM. Had these trucks lived their lives on the desert floor they likely wouldn’t even have surface rust on suspension fasteners .
smobgirl
> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
05/27/2019 at 13:56 |
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It’s beautiful out there but I also feel like it’s a really easy place to be murdered and never heard from again.
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ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> smobgirl
05/27/2019 at 14:11 |
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Nah, there are very few people at all out in that area, and the ones that are there are generally super friendly. On the rare occasion that I encountered another car on the road, pretty much all of them automatically wave at you as they go buy. This has been true since I first frequented this area as a college freshman at NM Tech in 2003.
It is an area in which you could get lost and never heard from again, as you can put some serious distance between yourself and the nearest living human if you really want to.
LastFirstMI is my name
> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
05/27/2019 at 14:57 |
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Looks fun! I didn’t realize library drinking clubs were a thing, but I need to join one
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ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> LastFirstMI is my name
05/27/2019 at 15:02 |
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There’s been an infusion of younger (say, less than 40 years old) staff and faculty at the university library over the few years, so we’ve formed a group that likes to drink beer and go camping. Basically, we’re a nerdy drinking club good at finding quality source material for any topic of conversation.
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LastFirstMI is my name
> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
05/27/2019 at 15:12 |
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You should buy a Chevy Citation as your club mascot.
Merfthemadmauler
> smobgirl
05/27/2019 at 15:14 |
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You been watching too many shitty movies.
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ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> LastFirstMI is my name
05/27/2019 at 15:28 |
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Ha! I dig the pun.
On state university salaries, we won’t be buying much of anything as a mascot. We did find a deer skeleton on the hike up that had a broken and hallowed femur that happened to fit on the end of a walking stick nicely. That staff was probably the closet thing we had to a mascot this weekend.
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smobgirl
> Merfthemadmauler
05/27/2019 at 17:14 |
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Nah, just been at too many isolated camping areas where some really weird shit went down at 2-5 am. Sometimes you have a nice peaceful evening alone and sometimes a bunch of bro trucks roll in, turn on their floodlights, and start arguing over the price of bricks of cocaine and you’re just praying to anything and everything they don’t notice your highlighter orange tent and out of state license plates over there in the corner (and please for the love of Jesus the dog had better not start barking at them)
UnderSTeerEnthusiast - Triumph Fanboy
> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
05/27/2019 at 17:25 |
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What are they doing out here? Broke down while working or?
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ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> UnderSTeerEnthusiast - Triumph Fanboy
05/27/2019 at 17:58 |
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These u ndoubtedly belonged to the ranchers that owned ad/or leased the land at some point. Once they’re dead, it cost time and money to transport them to the nearest salvage yard in Socorro 50+ miles away. It costs nothing to leave them out there.