Hello & Howdy Everyone...
Like most of you I am on a number of offroading forums...one of them is Adventure4x4.net, a site that is non-vehicle specific and has a focus on Family Camping/Runs and Tread Lightly.
Well Adventure4x4 is mainly Socal and after reading about alot of the cool 3 day weekend camp/run/fun events we got 1 in Az....
So here are the details for SedonaFest to be held on Dec 7th, 8th, 9th...no cost, just go here
http://adventure4x4.net/waiting/showthread.php?t=1843
and register, hit the roll call thread under Fest Planning and you are in...
Also the give-a-way is stacking up nicely so if you can only make day trips then come up Sat to run the trails and Sunday for the goodies & late trail run.
It would be cool to see a strong Cruiser Showing on the red rocks
Dates: Friday Dec 7th from 2pm till Sunday Dec 9th afternoon
Location: Chavez Crossing Campground just on the fringe of Sedona Az. I have already reserved the whole place so if you go to this link
http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/coconino/rec...oup-camp.shtml
and then this link and click on each of the 3 areas
http://www.recreation.gov/campgroundMap.do
you will get lots of info on the site
We can have 50+/- rigs (rv & 4x4 mixed) and 100+/-people camping, I am sure some folks will want to stay in hotels which are within a couple of miles and the onsite dude seemed fine with extra rigs for the potluck & raffle....
Oh yeah since this is Fest then we gotta have the potluck and raffle!!!!
Potluck w/ Dinner Theater: Adventure4x4 will supply some chilli meat & carne asada meat to be cooked up since we will be in the home of the Cowboy Artist of America...so think cowboy chuck wagon cook-off....
Now 1 thing I am working on is to have a expedition company I know give us a slideshow/talk during dinnertime (think laptop to projector to white sheet hanging from trees)
Fireside Chats Friday & Sat night: After dinner we will have a couple of 30 min talks by various vendors about products like Lift kits, Recovery Gear, Ham Radio and more...
Give-A-Way on Sunday 10am: Ok I know you have been skimming this post just to get to this part
The raffle tickets will be:
$1 each or
25 for $20 or
65 for 50 or
130 for 100 .
Proceeds to cover event cost, support the Adventure4x4.net website and Daring Adventures, a Phoenix Charity that gets Disabled Kids & Adults Outdoors.
Allpro is going over the top in not only bucking up for BorregoFest but also wanting to be in it knee deep for the inaugural SedonaFest. I have to say a huge thanks to Allpro for this type of support!
And now that things are getting serious we will be hitting up as many Socal & Az vendors as we can.
Camelback Toyota in Phx wants to come out and play...I am trying to get a couple of the cyclonic pre-filters from them, or something else good.
I also will toss in some brand new gear I have around like a steel winch cable that was never used and more. Oh and all you other Az Crew will get a tap on the shoulder to beat the bushes also for gear.
Runs: Broken Arrow is one of the Iconic runs in Sedona and I did it in my bone stock FJC with only 346 miles on the odo. As we start lining up trails more than likely we will divide folks into levels of trail challenge but everyone will hit Broken Arrow sometime through the day.
We will have a Friday afternoon run for folks who are around then.
Saturday runs of course.
And a post raffle Sunday afternoon run for folks who don't have to blast back down the highway to home.
So as a prelim wrap up of the idea so far:
Friday campsite check-in after 2pm
Friday afternoon run at 4pm?
Friday dinner is do it yourself @ 6pm
Friday Fireside Chat @8pm Topic TBA
Sat breakfast do it yourself at 8am
Sat hit the trails @ 9am or 9:30am depending on which groups
Sat everyone back at camp @ 5pm
Potluck at 7pm with Dinner Theater
Fireside Chat @ 8pm various topics till 10pm then general mumbling and drifting to sleep
Sunday breakfast do it yourself @ 8am
Sunday Strike camp and clean up till 10am then RAFFLE till noon +/-
Sunday lunch do it yourself and camp checkout at 1pm
Sunday trail run at 2pm till ???
Like most of you I am on a number of offroading forums...one of them is Adventure4x4.net, a site that is non-vehicle specific and has a focus on Family Camping/Runs and Tread Lightly.
Well Adventure4x4 is mainly Socal and after reading about alot of the cool 3 day weekend camp/run/fun events we got 1 in Az....
So here are the details for SedonaFest to be held on Dec 7th, 8th, 9th...no cost, just go here
http://adventure4x4.net/waiting/showthread.php?t=1843
and register, hit the roll call thread under Fest Planning and you are in...
Also the give-a-way is stacking up nicely so if you can only make day trips then come up Sat to run the trails and Sunday for the goodies & late trail run.
It would be cool to see a strong Cruiser Showing on the red rocks
Dates: Friday Dec 7th from 2pm till Sunday Dec 9th afternoon
Location: Chavez Crossing Campground just on the fringe of Sedona Az. I have already reserved the whole place so if you go to this link
http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/coconino/rec...oup-camp.shtml
and then this link and click on each of the 3 areas
http://www.recreation.gov/campgroundMap.do
you will get lots of info on the site
We can have 50+/- rigs (rv & 4x4 mixed) and 100+/-people camping, I am sure some folks will want to stay in hotels which are within a couple of miles and the onsite dude seemed fine with extra rigs for the potluck & raffle....
Oh yeah since this is Fest then we gotta have the potluck and raffle!!!!
Potluck w/ Dinner Theater: Adventure4x4 will supply some chilli meat & carne asada meat to be cooked up since we will be in the home of the Cowboy Artist of America...so think cowboy chuck wagon cook-off....
Now 1 thing I am working on is to have a expedition company I know give us a slideshow/talk during dinnertime (think laptop to projector to white sheet hanging from trees)
Fireside Chats Friday & Sat night: After dinner we will have a couple of 30 min talks by various vendors about products like Lift kits, Recovery Gear, Ham Radio and more...
Give-A-Way on Sunday 10am: Ok I know you have been skimming this post just to get to this part
The raffle tickets will be:
$1 each or
25 for $20 or
65 for 50 or
130 for 100 .
Proceeds to cover event cost, support the Adventure4x4.net website and Daring Adventures, a Phoenix Charity that gets Disabled Kids & Adults Outdoors.
Allpro is going over the top in not only bucking up for BorregoFest but also wanting to be in it knee deep for the inaugural SedonaFest. I have to say a huge thanks to Allpro for this type of support!
And now that things are getting serious we will be hitting up as many Socal & Az vendors as we can.
Camelback Toyota in Phx wants to come out and play...I am trying to get a couple of the cyclonic pre-filters from them, or something else good.
I also will toss in some brand new gear I have around like a steel winch cable that was never used and more. Oh and all you other Az Crew will get a tap on the shoulder to beat the bushes also for gear.
Runs: Broken Arrow is one of the Iconic runs in Sedona and I did it in my bone stock FJC with only 346 miles on the odo. As we start lining up trails more than likely we will divide folks into levels of trail challenge but everyone will hit Broken Arrow sometime through the day.
We will have a Friday afternoon run for folks who are around then.
Saturday runs of course.
And a post raffle Sunday afternoon run for folks who don't have to blast back down the highway to home.
So as a prelim wrap up of the idea so far:
Friday campsite check-in after 2pm
Friday afternoon run at 4pm?
Friday dinner is do it yourself @ 6pm
Friday Fireside Chat @8pm Topic TBA
Sat breakfast do it yourself at 8am
Sat hit the trails @ 9am or 9:30am depending on which groups
Sat everyone back at camp @ 5pm
Potluck at 7pm with Dinner Theater
Fireside Chat @ 8pm various topics till 10pm then general mumbling and drifting to sleep
Sunday breakfast do it yourself @ 8am
Sunday Strike camp and clean up till 10am then RAFFLE till noon +/-
Sunday lunch do it yourself and camp checkout at 1pm
Sunday trail run at 2pm till ???
hopefully there's follow through with the idea of multiple runs. It would be me an my son and we'd either tent it or sleep in the tranquility of the 80.
