Welcome to my blog!

Hi, my name is Mike Stout. I'm an offroad enthusiast. I enjoy four wheeling my jeep in some of the most beautiful places in the United States.

I trailer my Jeep every year to Ouray, Colorado. There are hundreds of great 4x4 trails between Silverton, Ouray and Telluride area. Most of these trails are old trails that gold and silver miners used to extract ore from the mines in the late 1800's. Most of these trails are only a Jeep's width wide with several hundred feet ledge drops. Many of these trails will take you to the top of 14,000 feet mountains. The views are spectacular!!

The last couple of years I've been able to combine other great 4 wheeling locations with my Colorado trip. This year I spent about a week in Ouray and then my jeepin' buddy Bill and I went to Moab for another week. Last year we were able to venture out to California to run the most famous 4 wheeling trail in the USA, the Rubicon Trail.

It's not what you buy, it's what you build!

  • 2003 Jeep Rubicon
  • 4.0L Inline 6 Cylinder Engine
  • 5 Speed Manual Transmittion
  • NV241 Rock-Trac Transfer Case w/ 4:1 Low Range
  • 5" TeraFlex LCG Suspension Lift
  • Triangulated 4 Link Front & Rear
  • 1" M.O.R.E. Body Lift
  • 1" M.O.R.E Motor Mount Lift
  • Dana 44 Axles Front & Rear
  • Alloy USA Chromoly Axle Shafts 30 Spline
  • Yukon 4.88 Gears
  • Tru-Lok Selectable Lockers Front & Rear
  • Custom Rear CV Drive Shaft
  • TeraFlex High Steering System
  • TeraFlex S/T Sway Bar
  • 35" x 13.5" BFGoodrich Krawlers
  • 15" x 8.5" Walker Evans Beadlocks
  • K&N Air Intake
  • On Board Air Compressor (MaxAir 4.0)
  • Optima Yellow Top Battery
  • Warn 9.5 ti Winch
  • Poison Spyder Full Roll Cage
  • Poison Spyder RockerKnockers
  • Custom Bumpers Front & Rear
  • Warn 7" Fender Flares
  • Nth Degree Tummy Tucker
  • Kilby Gas Tank & Steering Skid Plates
  • Skid Row Engine Skid Plate
  • RockCrusher Diff Covers

What's Next? (Future Mods)

MasterCraft Rubicon Seats
http://www.mastercraftseats.com/rubicon.php

California Tailgater Eliminator
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t276/mstout01/HPIM0698-1.jpg

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

My Bear Encounter

I took this video on my last vacation to Ouray, Co. back in October 2007.

This bear came down from the mountain behind this old mine every afternoon to eat apples. You can see in the video there is a very large 100 year old apple tree. The bear would climb up the tree, go out on a limb and jump up and down on the limb shaking the tree limb so hard the apples would fall out of the tree onto the ground. Then the bear would climb back down the tree and eat all the apples off the ground.

It was awesome watching this bear!

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