Women in H3's on the "Con

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Hummer officials, notably women engineers and female public relations officials, accompanied this first all-women Hummer excursion. Previous off-road Hummer groups had been predominantly male—men make up the majority of the automotive press corps, after all.

This is the group that I posted about the week before we went to the Rubicon.

I've been off-roading pretty regularly for the last dozen years in a variety of sport-utility vehicles and trucks. My driving partner for the first day, writer and former racer Denise McCluggage of Santa Fe, New Mexico, also has steady off-road driving experience in a variety of vehicles.

She wheels....

Denise and I took in the scenery—stands of tall trees, water trickling across the trail. We were starting to relax when our group came to a sudden stop. Other off-roaders approached from the opposite direction.
They were hardly what we expected to see on the Rubicon Trail: young guys driving military Humvees. We pulled over as best we could to let them pass. They were dirty and dusty in their doorless, roofless barebones vehicles. I felt embarrassed sitting on leather seats in the bright red H3 with the air conditioning on. I got out to watch them go by.

I think this is where they ran into Josh Hall and his group of trainees.

Cadillac Hill was such a strenuous exercise this day that we managed to go only 0.8 mile in an hour and a half of driving. Journalist Sue Mead later got a flat tire but limped her H3 to the rocky bluff where we ate lunch the day before. During lunch the tire was replaced.


Other vehicles had damage, too. The outside mirror on one H3 dangled down onto the passenger door. It had been whacked when the SUV got too close to a tree. Another H3 had a fog light in front knocked out of its socket, evidently whacked by a rock. There were more than one dented tailpipe. And everything, even the leather seats and dashboards of the H3s, was coated by fine dust.

Carnage......lets see some PICS!!!


I hope H2BULLY, H2Rocks, Kira, h2Copilot and I all get invited on the next all Woman Rubicon HUMMER excursion!

Don't forget about us GM!!!!!