Colorado - 2013 Plan

StrizzyChris said:
It has been canceled for the time being. Not sure if anyone, in private, still planned on doing this.

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Ok well if its worth to anyone wanting to go I've been following your guts thread and on the JK forum I do have a group of people headed out the same time as your group is
We are by no means as equipped as your group was Jeep wise but if anyone wants to join us we will be arriving in the Dillion area Saturday July 20th and doing various trails Sunday through Wednesday , Thursday July 25th we are all headed north to my annual Deadwood SD Run Friday through Sunday
Just PM me!!!
 
Colorado Trip - If anyone is interested

I have been talking with another guy on the forum and we are keeping this trip alive. If anyone is still interested in this trip, please reach out to me. We are going to have only 10 Jeeps instead of 20. My wife has agreed to make the arrangements for hotels, etc. Right now we have 4 Jeeps committed to this trip. It will be fairly informal, yet with 10 Jeeps there will have to be some organization. If interested let's talk. I am thinking 100% commitments will be needed by the 1st of May.

In the mean time, we can do a conference call bridge so we can put together opinions on trails and passes, and the level of trails to max out on.

If interested, give me a PM.

Wayne
 
supra_launch21v said:
I have been talking with another guy on the forum and we are keeping this trip alive. If anyone is still interested in this trip, please reach out to me. We are going to have only 10 Jeeps instead of 20. My wife has agreed to make the arrangements for hotels, etc. Right now we have 4 Jeeps committed to this trip. It will be fairly informal, yet with 10 Jeeps there will have to be some organization. If interested let's talk. I am thinking 100% commitments will be needed by the 1st of May.

In the mean time, we can do a conference call bridge so we can put together opinions on trails and passes, and the level of trails to max out on.

If interested, give me a PM.

Wayne
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What are the requirements for our rig for this event.. ???
 
I have 8 confirmed for the same weekend if we want to combine the groups together. Only thing is we have one guy in our group that has open diffs but 37's. The rest are all Rubicon's and minimum 35's so Im not sure whats your requirements.
Our basecamp is in Breckenridge we rented a large 6 bedroom cabin and a few jeeps are camping it at the tiger run RV area.
 
Colorado Trip - requirements

Here is what I would recommend for this trip:
  • I would recommend minimum 35" tires and a functional spare.
  • You will need to be able to air up and down your tires rapidly. I would highly consider a CO2 tank and tire de-flators. I will give you my two cents on CO2 at the bottom of this post.
  • Lockers - I would want them, it is not completely necessary to have them. You will have issues at times.
  • A CB radio and a FRS radio.
  • Skid Plates underneath, highly recommended.
  • Rock Sliders
  • Winch (not completely necessary with all the other Jeeps that will have them)
  • LED lighting (optional for a night run). I would like to do at least one night run. Completely optional.
  • Tools to do work.
  • A COPY OF THE CHARLES WELLS BOOK FOR COLORADO TRAILS (SOUTH). This will not cover all of the trails we are going on, however, it will give everyone the ability to reference 90% of the trails we would be doing. It also allows you to download waypoints to your gps of the trails we will be going on. If you aren't technical it is no big deal, I can show you how to download the waypoints easily to a gps.
  • A CREDIT CARD. These trips aren't cheap.


This trip is going to be fun. Bring a camera and maybe a GoPro, the scenery is crazy cool.

Tools: We will need to plan prior to the trip regarding tools and how we can optimize the fact that we have lots of Jeepers (let's not all bring the same stuff!).
Probably most important is a Jeep that can handle off-road and on-road travel. We will do a lot of trails, yet will be travelling on hard roads A LOT. I am thinking starting near Eagle, working our way SW down to Telluride, over to Gunnison, Salida, BV, and to Jefferson. It will be a lot miles on the road and a lot of trail riding. No trails harder than a 9 out of 10. The most challenging trails would be Poughkeepsie, Chinaman Gulch, Black Bear, and Iron Chest. No one gets left behind, no one rolls their Jeep.
Please reference traildamage.com for ratings.

This is all up in the air regarding the destinations. I am just throwing this all out there.

I would recommend buying a CO2 tank from Airgas. They are steel, not like the fancy aluminum PowerTank. The Airgas tanks are returnable for EXCHANGE. I will make arrangements to have enough tanks to be able to swap all the tanks from the trip team. I have both CO2 and twin air compressors with a 2.5 gallon tank. I am running 37" tires and need a CO2 exchange after about 4 days. This is optional, however, air compressors take 45 minutes to fillup vs. CO2 at about 15 minutes. With 10 Jeeps airing up at the same time, gas station air isn't an option! I like airing down to 14psi and filling up to around 30psi at the end of the day.

More to follow. Please PM me if interested.
 
Thinking maybe our two groups could do a meet and greet one evening at least if you guys are going to be near Breckenridge at all!!!
 
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