Bruce always stressed the importance of maintance, over mods. In fact, he would have preferred to wheel with a stock truck that's been well maintained piloted by a sane driver, over a tricked-out beast with a loose nut any day. If you dig back to see any of the runs he set up, you'll likely see reference to good maintenace as paramount.
I can't seem to lead many trails around the Silverton/Ouray area without mentioning Bruce, who led me on them my first time. The Alpine Loop and the classic Black Bear/Imogene among the favorites. I'll never forget heading up lower Engineer one morning (Mineral, to some of you) and the hunting stories were for some reason dominating the air waves... but given that every 3rd truck had kids under 5, the vocabulary was swapped to gummy bears, jelly beans, licorice, all in search of the big candy machines, instead of blood, guns, etc. I don't know when I've laughed that hard, we were literally crying hearing Red Chili talk about following gumball trails, hitting a candy machine, then chasing a trail of red licorice. better story for a camp fire perhaps, but just one of the runs Bruce led that I'll never forget.
The other huge thing I don't belive anyone has mentioned yet here is how in 2007 Bruce basically single handedly introduced this club to ham radio. I for one didn't even know that was an option at the time.. but after experiencing a trail run was immediately hooked.
@Groucho led our club's first training session that year, followed by another, by 2008 half the club had licenses and rigs and most of us today still won't shut up about how great it is. I can't think of a bigger leave behind. so 73 to you Elmer, I'll forever remember WODW.