SUPERLIFT 4XADVENTURE

We had a great time at Hot Springs, AR.  Attended 2 days at the event (coordinated by Mr. Bob Hazel - (www.sports-in-the-rough.com) then since it was our first visit to Hot Springs so we did some sightseeing 1/2 days before we headed back to Houston. 

Event was well organized, everything seemed to be great.   The KOA Camp Ground (we stayed at Hampton Inn) was beautiful & people work there were helpful, trail leaders were really experienced people on the territory. 

The 1st day we took "concrete hill" trail, which we found out soon, was a hard core group - of course we didn't realize until we started the trail rides - though we enjoyed watching different vehicles & actions and meeting with people from different part of the country.  Basically we only went to 5 big hills this day.  We were one of the few open-diff (= non-lockers) vehicle in the group which explains (?) that we only made 2 hill out of 5 on that day.  Once we felt it isn't a very good idea to try the slick, rocky hill, we gave up the hard ones since we were afraid to cause a major damage on our truck.  We had one unbelievable incident when few trucks tried the "Concrete Hill".  One older FJ-40 Toyota with 3 people in there, tried so hard to go up one hard, steep, curvy hill, it almost rolled straight back toward the way it came up, then it vertically stood up & paused towards the sky !!   Completely vertical and stayed there for several minutes until pulled back down to the front tires by onlookers. Anyway we had a very exciting day.

The 2nd day we decided to take a easier trail ride which we can go whole trails with other vehicles, with no big cold sweat.  We drove a lot of roads and very skinny trails between the wooden hill sides.  Since our D90 is a slightly wider than Jeep/Bronco, seemed like we had the toughest time to make a tight turn in the wooded area.  

The next day as we mentioned above, we had a sightseeing for 1/2 day.  Took a famous "Duck Tour" which go through the downtown to the Lake, about 1 hr. ride went quickly.  Very entertaining, we would recommend the Duck Ride to anyone, especially for the family with children.  Also we visited the Bath House national park museum and bought 2 empty glass bottles which we filled up with some of the genuine Hot Spring water (warm) and brought back home to Houston.

Beautiful, scenic trails, well-organized event & Duck Tour----It was well worth the 8 hr drive one way. Thank you, Mr. Bob Hazel and all the people worked for the event.