The Logandale Hump N Bump Event 2012

Logandale Nevada is full of beautiful red rock country and the perfect place to hold the Hump N Bump event.  This year marked the 32nd year of this awesome event with attendees from all over the country.

The area is full of anything from mild to wild trails and offers something for everyone.  Both stock rigs and heavily built buggies love to come out to this open riding area and enjoy themselves.

The Hump N Bump is a family fun oriented event that is a once a year as a fundraiser for the club with a large portion of the proceeds from our event supporting our Local and National land use causes. These include the BlueRibbon Coalition (BRC), Nevada based Partners In Conservation, TreadLightly! and the United Four Wheel Drive Association.

The event proceeds are also used to support the facilites at the Logandale Trail System, adapt-a trail cleanups, and user education on a variety of subjects including responsible land use and safe off-road and recovery techniques.  

Please join us for a wonderful time while also supporting our land use advocates that help to keep our awesome trails open! For more information about our 2013 event, visit our website at www.vv4w.org

Cal-Neva Extreme 2012 About To Roll!

Once again the crew over at the Cal-Neva Extreme Rockcrawling series in conjuction with Yukon Gear & Axle announces their season opener May 19-20 at the Giant's Throne at Reno Nevada's Exit 28.  Several teams will be competing in what promises to be a banner year for Cal-Neva Extreme as the event rolls into it's third year. 

"Putting on a comp up at the Giant's Throne is awesome because of the natural terrain that promises to make it especially difficult and challenging for even the best drivers" said Glenn Bonner, President Cal-Neva. 

The rugged natural terrain at the Giant's Throne makes it a challenge to get through the tight courses and challenges any driver.  

Stock classes to Pro Mod are available so nobody gets left behind if they want the chance to compete in a W.E. Rock sanctioned type of event. 

CRAWL Magazine's very own Wendy Nickell with her spotter Brandy Southall will once again take to the rugged terrain and show 'em how it's done. 

"I had a great time last year and I've been working on my moves for the upcoming season and I'm looking forward to it" said Wendy, "considering last year was the maiden voyage for Project Wendy and my first ever competition we did really well!" she added. 

For more information, dates and locations check out their website at www.cal-nevaextreme.com

Hump N Bump 2011 In Logandale NV.

This year's Hump N Bump in Logandale Nevada once again proved to be a success and provided lots of fun, scenery and off road enthusiast comraderie!  Put on by the Vegas Valley Four Wheelers and friends the Hump N Bump is a bucket list item. 

 "Elsie" coming through one of the washes with incredible scenery.

The wheelin in Logandale is anything from mild to wild with several opportunities for casual crusing and checking out the wonderful views and wildlife.  If you're lucky you may catch up to a desert tortoise like we did a few years ago.  What a wonder they are to watch, and be sure to just watch them and take pictures only as it's illegal to handle them. 

We've also encountered big horn sheep which majestically hopped down the mountainous terrain and paraded themselves rightin front of our Jeep, what a sight that was! 

It's not hard to find awesome photograph spots in Logandale!  The red rock scenery is one of my favorites and makes our rigs look great out there in the desert! 

 

 The "Land Use Warrior Machines".

This year I won the contest for picking up the most garbage and returning it to camp for disposal.  Good thing this little guy hopped out of an empty can before I tossed him into the dumpster!  For awhile he decided to live in the "Elsie".  My buddy finally decided to come out and take a peek whileI was working my way through some pretty nasty crevices.  Good thing I don't panick or both of us could have been in trouble on the trail that we were on! 



My little travel buddy.

All in all this is a good event for the whole family and has a growing raffle every year and I won't even tell you about the BBQ dinner they put on Saturday night!  This is mouth watering stuff for sure.  Keep up with the latest and the new dates for the 2012 event here:  http://www.vv4w.org/

Winter On The Rocks 2012, An Epic Event!

Winter On the Rocks 2012 at Sand Hollow OHV area was epic and I would jump at the chance to go again next year.  The wheelin in the red rock country is very similiar to being in Moab and all this is located near the friendly town of St. George Utah! 

There's all kinds of wheeling available from mild to wild!

We took both of our rigs from the well built and equipped 97 Jeep TJ and our mildly built 94 FZJ80 Land Cruiser.  We found lots of places to play including beautiful sand dunes with endless vistas and views. 

The "Land Use War Machine" and the "Land Use Land Cruiser" are ready to go!



Our Buddy Rob Graft enjoys the views from his totally tricked out Nemesis Industries JK complete with a hemi!

There are lots of spots to just sit and watch the 'big boys' play on the harder stuff but for us it was fun just cruising around taking pictures and taking in the scenery! 

The Nemesis rig got a little 'stuck' on a dune pinnacle but the Land Use Land Cruiser yanked him out.



I was also impressed by poking around the friendly town of St. George.  The shopping was great and the people were helpful and I found a lot of interesting things to look at and buy like an antique accordian for my hubby, yes, he really plays it too! 

 Del tuning up the ol' sqeeze box!

Put Winter On The Rocks on your wheelin' bucket list, you won't be disappointed! http://www.winterontherocks.com/

Put Winter On The Rocks on your wheelin' bucket list, you won't be disappointed! http://www.winterontherocks.com/

TAPTour II Will Roll Again In January!

From the desk of Del Albright:

UTAH LANDUSE NEWS AND ANNUAL CONVENTION UPDATE with TAP Tour II


Brought to you by Del & Stacie Albright, Access Advocates, BlueRibbon Coalition

December 2, 2012



BlueRibbon Coalition will be represented by Del & Stacie Albright at “Winter on the Rocks” (WOTR) put on by the Utah 4x4 Club and Canyon Country 4x4 Club. BRC works closely with these clubs and others, as well as the Utah 4Wheel Drive Association. We are proud and honored to be part of this year’s activities and look forward to seeing a lot of familiar faces. Of course, we are all about saving trails and keeping the sport alive, so if you spend time jaw-jacking with us, you can figure that will be the topic of choice.



WOTR will be the first stop of our Trail Access Partnership Tour (TAPT) II. TAP Tours are where businesses join us on landuse adventures bringing off-road businesses together with customers, all in the spirit of saving trails and keep backcountry motorsports alive. Please find more on the TAP Tour here at http://www.trailaccesstour.com.



We want to help raise more raffle prizes for the event so perhaps we can call on you to reach out (again) to any businesses you know of and send them this link and a plea for goodies. We will be doing the same from our end. Sponsor Packages: http://www.winterontherocks.com/?page_id=377



The event made a nice donation to BRC last year as part of our partnership in fighting for all trails in Utah. We hope to make that donation even bigger this year (with your help). THIS is the year to make the fight for Utah even bigger and badder than it’s even been. 2012 is election year and YOU KNOW what that means. We have to make changes at the highest levels in order to keep our freedoms alive and well in the backcountry.



Speaking of elections, please visit and support the new Trail Political Action Committee that just started up (officially, registered, legal). The TPAC is located here at http://www.thetrailpac.com. They are going to help us shape a new congress for 2012.



Stacie and I are able to get to WOTR and be BRC this year because of the help of THREE awesome businesses who support us a lot in our landuse fights: T&T Customs, Nemesis Industries and MetalCloak. Please NOTE! These are three businesses with some market share competition for similar products, BUT they set that all aside to support landuse and access. Say thanks when you when you see them.



On the team,

Del & Stacie Albright

Here It Is, The TAP Tour Schedule!

Trail Access Partnership Tour (TAPT) Update and Directions:

Here is where to join us in our inaugural TAPT tour this fall (next month).

10/30 - 11/3: Circus Circus KOA RV Park, Las Vegas, NV, doing the SEMA show.

11/3 11/6: Hump 'n Bump Camp at Fairgrounds, Logandale, NV, arriving Thursday night; leaving Sunday am.

11/6 - 11/8: Davis Camp RV Park, Bullhead City, AZ, (928) 754-7250; arriving Sunday night; depart Tuesday afternoon (wheeling-touring) both days.

11/8 - 11/9: Crazy Horse RV Camp, Lake Havasu City, AZ, (928) 855-4033, arriving Tues. night; leave Wed. afternoon (after wheeling all day).

11/9 - 11/13: La Paz County Park, Parker, AZ, Desert Splash HQ, (928) 667-2069, arriving Wed. night; stay thru weekend.

RV/Camps both allow tents and have plenty of RV and tent spaces.

Evening campfires will include landuse talks, fun chat sessions, and helpful hints on saving our sport and keeping our trails open. Did I mention surprise musical performances? wink...

Just show up.

CB channel 3 (three) for Music Man (Del) or Lady Red (Stacie).

Del
(209) 304-7693

The Land Use Land Cruiser Gets Some Trail Time!

Elsie, the Land Use Land Cruiser has had a busy summer!  First she landed down at Trail-Gear for some mods including custom front and rear bumpers and sliders, an ARB 2.5 inch tuned suspension and a brand new WARN winch. 

Shiny new bumpers and sliders ready to see some trail.

We were so excited to pick her up and get her out and about on her first trek on the Pardoe Trail in N. CA.  What a great trail that is and a great place to test out some new mods for the moderately built rig.

We were amazed at the awesome flower bloom throughout the trail.

We took a short video of Elsie on a small rock pile, she looks great and I sure did use the sliders!

Elsie VIDEO

Thanks again to the supporting businesses who are helping Del and I stay out there fighting for our trails!  Stay tuned for more trails to come.