Phil,
Those are great pics. It's like a dustbowl when we go here in socal, however, I anxiously await winter, which is just around the corner and will hopefully bring us rain, mud and a little green. Currently when I turn on my air it blows dust into the cabin. My filter behind the dash is full so I need to clean that out, so was my alternator but that has since been cleaned out and I think it could have been the culprit behind two leaky batteries in one week
The pic with the pewter H2 on the incline where it appears the rear tire carrier is about to hit: Did you pull through that or back out of it? Curious.
Jason