well, after making some basic questions about my HB in this forum, a friend invited me to go to the sierra de tapalpa. Tapalpa is a beautiful small town in the woods, in the middle of the sierra in jalisco, about 60 mi. from Guadalajara, mexico.

This was basically a jeep excursion, but I asked if I could go with my nissan and it was ok. The level of the route was not complex, but with nice landscapes and we had the cance to play around in several places. It was a two days trip, only camping the saturday night and closing sunday with a test circuit organized by the tapalpa authorities.

There were more Cj's than everything, the second biggest group were the grand cherokees, some CJs, 1 wagoneer, 3 FJs, 1 toyota pickup, 1 ranger, 1 baja bug and my HB.

my truck is bone stock, and it was the most "soft looking" of the group. So many times the guides asked me "do you want to get into? ok"

The nissan made it nice in all the hard parts, so I'm very satisfied with my HB behavior =D

3 cj's ended broken, two of them of the front axle, the transfer I guess, and one drooped out the alt and water pump band, I can't translate this... a "balero" (spanish), and had to be towed to guadalajara.

I have some really crapy pics, most of them of my ride, but without action, I'll ask some pics to my friend, saw him taking some pics in nice angles.

regards.

that's awesome. Would love to see the pics.

getting ready aside of the road







getting into the natural protected area of the sierra de tapalpa








the FJs








Me, in a bad mood.


fire damages








parked to eat





nice ride




baja bug in the group




ranger 4x4


we were a lot of people




this toyota was looking 4 some action



and she got it




friends on the way





the camping area, fire must be supervised, firewoods are very ussual here.




some of the rides ready for the test circuit, there were 3 levels, but I only participated in the lightest one.





tapalpa



driving back home

que envidia!

beautiful views. When you said "FJ" I thought you were talking about the original FJ's from the 70's.

no, we hadn't those nice old FJs. Actually toyota arrived to mexico in 2002. in the 80s we had 4 or 5 brands of cars to choose, and only 4 or 5 models per brand.

in the last years we have been meeting a lot of new cars, mainly asiatics and auropeans. Not to mention we have here all the "ten years old" cars that you see disapearing like magic there.

sharing some extra pics of the HB having some action.

being pushed after some pan scrapping



Me, evaluating the situation...


going down




in a test circuit


some mud, too much sun evaporated the water, and I was the first in line...