Yankee Toys Fall Gathering

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Yankee Toys Fall Gathering

Fall Gathering is coming!!
Friday– Sunday, September 22-24
Wolfboro, NH
Details TBA soon

http://www.yankeetoys.org/

 

[Sporin]

Yankee Toys' biggest annual event!

We're still working out the details with the landowner, but the trails will range from long and varied, stocker-friendly, Class VI road runs to hardcore New England rockcrawling on private land in the Wolfboro NH area.

Camping will be nearby at an established campground. BIG BBQ feast Saturday night with awards and raffles.

Again, we are working out some insurance details before I can publish any more land specifics, but we have GREAT backup plans ready to execute if the Wolfboro land falls through. (similar to last year's event)

Just want to get the dates out so people can be prepared.

 

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Details and insurance issues with the land are falling into place so trail, camping and sign-up info will be posted soon. Thanks for being patient.

 

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Registration forms and camping info will be posted by this weekend.


Thank you,
Dave

 

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Details and sign up info is posted!

http://www.yankeetoys.org/



-Dave

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FALL GATHERING : Sept. 22-24
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NEA Calendar of Events
http://www.forum.nea4wd.org/viewtopic.php?t=707
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Dave Morin - YT Prez
Windsor, Vermont
TLCA Member #13940
'85 4Runner (mostly stock)

 

[Cruiser_Nerd]

Maybe I'll bring a running 25 this time!

Dave, let me know if there's anything I can do to help out from down here.

 

[Sporin]

You better be!

I'm looking for Class VI trail leaders.

 

[Ba-Outfitters]

Fall Gathering .. good time looking forward to it

It looks like Tim and I will be there again this year.
psyched to be able to fit it into the schedule again.
For those of you that have never gone... don't miss out this year !!

Bill Atkinson

 

[Rustydog]

Distance to wheeling

Trying to set some plans in place to make it up for the event. How far between the camp ground in Ossipee, and the wheeling in Wolfsboro? The thread said there is trailer parking at the wheeling location but how much?

If we come up a day early, would going to MT.Washington be possible, looks like 1.5 hours away by map. Does this seam correct.

My 40 is not a trailer queen but it is alway nice to know what options there are.

 

[Sporin]

Campground is 15-20 minutes from the wheeling area. Not suer about how much trailer parking there is but I don't get the impression it's small. I know DWE has ha a few big runs up there and they almost all run trailered riges.

We may wind up traveling a bit farther for the stocker/Class VI stuff though.

 

[Cruiser_Nerd]

If we come up a day early, would going to MT.Washington be possible, looks like 1.5 hours away by map. Does this seam correct.

Yep, that's about right. Depending on what you want to do up there I'd plan on going directly there and then coming down. Also depending on the foliage don't count on the Kancamagus (112) being a clean drive, could be stop and go or just stop.

 

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FYI, Beaver Hollow is giving us a 10% discount so make sure they know you
are with our group when you make your reservations.

GET THOSE REGISTRATION FORMS IN!!!

 

[cruiserland]

Pre-ran a couple trails in the 60 yesterday.
these are logging trails which have been used by offroaders for 4-5 years now, so there are lots of tough obstacles with plenty of go-arounds.
There are a few areas which could be cleaned up of brush before FG; is there anyone who is close enough to do another prerun/cleanup in next few weeks? Please feel free to contact me directly if interested.

Personal carnage included loss of front shackle plate, ( we found it an hour later after backtracking!) and a broken rear leaf spring pin, which required chaining rear axle to bumper then locating with winch line running under truck.
Yes, we drove 30 miles home like that......

should be fun.

 

[green40]

Getting close!
Get those registrations in!
Finish up those projects!
Lets wheel!

 

[Cruiser_Nerd]

The things I'll do to make sure it doesn't rain for the FG!

FJ25 Anti - Rain Dance

 

[Sporin]

Get those registrations in and make your camping reservations, less then TWO WEEKS to go!

 

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bump

 

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Hey guys, FG trail update.

Hardcore & Intermediate are both on the Wolfeboro land. Obviously
Intermediates will be taking more go-rounds and Hardcore will be testing
gravity.

Here's a link to the trail pictures from a while ago:
http://www.deepwoodsextreme.com/dwe/DWERC.nsf/TRstatus/Recent?OpenDocument

The stock runs will be some great Class VI type stuff, mostly short roads
with connecting small roads... one remote logging type area with lots of
trails; some nice old roads with an abundance of old cemeteries; some local
trails with assorted large mud puddles and sandpits.

Kina & Hillary have put in over 100 miles of scouting and it should be
interesting stuff. I always find Class VI roads fascinating with their
broken down stone walls and centuries old homesteads and cellar holes, etc.

ONE WEEK!!!!! PLEASE try to get your registration in the mail by Saturday.
If not, you'd probably be best to just bring it with you. I'll have a sign
posted at the campground check-in on where to find me Friday night and
Saturday morning so you can pick up your Tshirt, sign your waiver, and get
any other info we need you to have.

Looking forward to a GREAT weekend!

-Dave

 

[green40]

3 more days!!!!!!
The 40 is packed, just have to throw in beer and I'm ready!!!
Can't wait!!!!!

 

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A great weekend and a LOT of people to thank....

Kina & Hillary: The event couldn't have happened without you and the Club owes you a HUGE round of thanks for all your hard work mapping out trails and leading runs.

Jim C.: Thanks for being the stocker trail leader on Saturday. This is the second year where the stockers have been led by a bone stock FJ-25, a real testament to the brand's heritage and ability.

Jason Peters for his great shirt design, everyone loved them, and we sold them out. so we are planning a second run! Details soon.

The FJ Cruiser Trail Team was great, cooked up a storm, wheeled a LOT, and gave away a ton of great stuff (hats, map cases, muli-tools.) as well as donations to the raffle table. I think I can safely say they "won over" a LOT of people on the trails. Any pretense of the FJC being a "mall-cruiser" were firmly put to rest. We are already in talks to have them back next year.

We had a LOT of great raffle prizes this year, Tedd from Cruiser Solutions donated a TON of great stuff (offroad lights, hats, clothing, ARB straps, stickers), North Country Land Cruisers, BA Outfitters, Granite State Performance, Woody from IH8MUD, all helped contribute to our biggest raffle in recent memory. Thank you!!!

Thank you DWE! A very big Yankee Toys thank you to Deep Woods Extreme after this weekend's event. The private land we ran for our Fall Gathering was cut by DWE and we greatly appreciated this trail swap opportunity.

EVERYONE was so helpful over the weekend with selling raffle tickets, running errands, chasing down fixes and parts, leading trial runs. It was a great, group effort and a real nice coming together for the club after a pretty slow summer.

Thank you everyone for a great year!

-Dave