Lysmachia

Hello all,

A group of us from CoTTORA are hosting the Colorado portion of the Wheelers For The Wounded Event.

Wheelers for the Wounded (WFTW) is an organization with the primary mission of providing a weekend of off-roading, camping, and in some cases fishing, to our country's wounded military members all over the United States. This will provide them with much deserved fun and excitement as they traverse the most extreme terrain our great country has to offer in a variety of the best off-road capable vehicles ever built.

For more info about WFTW go to http://www.wheelersforthewounded.org/

We are asking any and all Colorado 4 wheelers regard if you have any interest in participating in and/or assisting with the Wheelers for the Wounded event on July 18, 2009. Several folks have already been helping us with the basic plan, but it’s now time to expand and get some additional positions filled.

If you have a desire to provide a vehicle and seats for riders we need to get a few caveats out in the open; most of this is simply for liability.

First, any vehicle participating in this event must be insured, and if necessary, properly registered. All drivers also need to be properly and currently licensed.

Second, we will be conducting vehicle inspections to make certain the basics for safety are operating properly (brakes, seat belts, etc.) Please keep in mind, this is a day for entertaining our guests and is not an appropriate time to test out your new rig or modifications. We want to spend the day wheeling, not repairing!!

Third, we will be requiring all participants to sign a liability waiver.

We are planning to run five trail teams on five different trails in the Buena Vista area. We will be staging at Chinaman Gulch/BV Carnage and will reconvene there again for our evening BBQ.

For each of those five trails we need experienced trail leaders, spotters and tailgunners. We know many of you folks have experience on these trails and we would like to take advantage of that as much as possible. Please look at the trail list and if you know a trail particularly well and are willing to fill one of these position, let me know and we’ll iron out the details.

Colorado Event
hosted by
Toyota Territory Off-Road Association – Colorado Chapter
Colorado4Wheelers
Colorado4x4.org
Front Range 4x4

Event Date, Time and Location
July 18, 2009
10:00 am to 7:00pm
Buena Vista Area

Event Schedule
10:00am
Meet & Greet and staging at Chinaman Gulch/BV Carnage trailhead
11:00am
Trail teams depart for trails
4:30pm
Trail teams return to staging
5:00pm
BBQ for all participants

Trails

Boulder Mountain and/or Mount Antero (Easy, rated 3-4)
http://www.traildamage.com/trails/index.php?id=52
http://www.traildamage.com/trails/index.php?id=51

Chinaman Gulch (Moderate to Difficult, rated 4-7)
http://www.traildamage.com/trails/index.php?id=1

Grizzly Lake and/or Iron Chest (Moderate to Difficult, rated 5-8)
http://www.traildamage.com/trails/index.php?id=55
http://www.traildamage.com/trails/index.php?id=8


Mount Princeton (Easy, rated 2-3)
http://www.traildamage.com/trails/index.php?id=121

Tincup Pass (Easy, rated 2-3)
http://www.traildamage.com/trails/index.php?id=120


At your leisure, check out the trails and let me know what you are comfortable with. Even if you do not want to lead, spot, or gun, let me know which trails you would like to run so I can start putting together the trail teams. We will also be setting up a date for preruns sometime in the next couple of months and it would be great to have any of you join in on that fun. Let me know.


There are also lots of other areas that we could use help on, so if you would like to offer up some talent in some other realm, please let us know and I'll hook you up!

Thanks everyone!

Molly (and Eric aka FJCruzer)

dropzone

iTrader: (6)

As an Army Veteran I can't tell you how much this sort of thing is appreciated

Thanks for COTTORA for getting out there and giving some Vets a chance to do and see things that they may only get a chance to see on youtube.

Awesome Molly!

Lysmachia

Robb, there is an event in Oregon you can get invloved with! In fact there is one in MANY states all. If you are not in Colorado get involved in the event in your state!

Again, go to http://www.wheelersforthewounded.org/ for more info!

Schedule of 2009 Main Events

Florida (Hummer X Club & Venture Jeeps) - April 4-5
Arkansas (Mid-South Jeeps) - April 18-19
Texas (Midnight Four Wheelers) - May 2-3
New Mexico (Las Cruces Four Wheel Drive Club) - May 9-10
Arizona - (Disabled Explorers) - May 16-17
Utah (Non-Official Event) - May 20-24
The Rubicon Trail (Pirates of the Rubicon) - June 6-7
Nevada (Sands Regency Casino Hotel) - June 17 - 21
Oregon (Pacific Northwest 4-Wheel Drive Association) - June 27-28
Washington (Timber Tamers) - July 3-5
Idaho (Hillbilly Rock Krew & Snake River Off-Roaders) - July 11
Colorado (TTORA) - July 18-19
Oklahoma (Jeep Thing) - July 25-26
Kansas (Brush Beater Jeep Club) - August 1-2
Colorado (Mile-Hi Jeep Club) - August 1-8
Missouri (Ozark Mountain 4x4 Club) - August 7-9
Kentucky (Kentucky Mountain Crawlers) - August 14-16
Kentucky (Muddy Buddy’s Jeep Wrangler Club) - August 21-23
New Jersey (North Jersey Jeep Club) - August 29-30
Pennsylvania (Blue Mountain Jeep Alliance) - September 5-6
Maryland (FJ Bruisers Off-Road Club) - September 12-13
Virginia (Tidewater Four Wheelers & Beltway Jeepers) - September 18-20
Georgia (Matanzas Jeep Club) - September 26-27
Texas (TTORA) - October 3-4

Lysmachia

Bumpity Bump!

For those of you in colorado, we'd love for you to attend on July 18th! Let me know if you are interested!

dropzone

iTrader: (6)

crap, I totally forgot about this...I actually have that weekend off of the Oregon Run.
My truck is getting a full cage and 5.29's as we speak, hopefully it will be done in time..

Lysmachia

So an update!!!

(From Eric our Leader of the pack on this)

Hey folks,

As we enter final week of preparations I hope this message finds you well. I am aware of some concerns from our volunteers and I would like to address them in two veins:

First, I have had a few of folks express concern that we cannot guarantee that wounded veteran riders will participate. We are doing everything we can to encourage folks to join us for this event. This has been a challenge on a number of levels, from our being a strictly volunteer and fledgling organization, to strict HIPAA and military restrictions on patient contact. It has been a very one-way communication flow. This week we will be using mass media to raise some awareness about this event. I was leery about doing this sooner, because until last week we did not have our site plan rubber-stamped by BLM and USFS. I did not want to make promises I could not keep, but now we're good to go and know what we can and cannot do. Regardless, a number of the drivers and family members that have volunteered are wounded veterans themselves and I hope we can show them the same support.

Second, we want to show that this event is a success this year and that we are capable of doing this in following years. Something I really want to encourage folks to do is show up and participate, so we can inspire confidence in folks to participate in the future who may have misgivings about the veracity of the program. Regardless of the status of the national portion of this program, we are dedicated to continuing a tradition in Colorado. I know this is a significant investment on everyone, but I think in the long run we will see a much larger pay-off.

Over the last year we have had 95 people express interest with 66 vehicles.
Of those, 75 people with 43 vehicles have signed up to participate.
As of this date 34 people and 22 vehicles have confirmed.

Don't let the momentum fall!!

In the last few weeks we received enough charitable funds and food donations to provide food and beverages for everyone who has expressed interest, and a few vendors have graciously provided gift donations to support the event.

Thank you and look forward to hearing from you this week and seeing you this weekend!

Eric Ross