Recent content by jeepndel

Today January 20th, 2017, Inauguration Day marks a new era for us off-roading/four wheeling types. But please allow me a slight caveat. While we may celebrate for our guns, our freedoms and our trails, DO NOT think the battles are over. First off, the new Administration will be pretty darn...

It is the giving time of year when the holiday/Christmas spirit urges us to do something for our favorite charities – like groups that save trails! I hope you will find it in your heart to help keep our motorized sports alive and our trails open. Please support on a national level and your...

Helping Hands Building Bridges in Volunteerism THE SPIRIT OF COOPERATION THROUGH HELPING HANDS Is the Solution to Successful Volunteerism and a Better Future for All Presented on behalf of the BlueRibbon Coalition, Sharetrails.Org/BRC By Del Albright Volunteer efforts from churches to...

PURPOSEFUL VOLUNTEERISM: PUSHING BEYOND HOLDING OUR GROUND Only by escalating to more offensive strategies will we win the battles for access. By Del Albright, Ambassador Sharetrails.Org/BRC Do not just volunteer; but rather up-purpose your volunteerism! In today’s world when we are all...

10 THINGS TO KEEP HANDY AND REMEMBER AS LEADERS OF VOLUNTEERS Excerpts from the Recreational Leadership Training Course (RLTC) By Del Albright By the nature of the title "volunteer leader" there is never enough time to do all the things you want to do, or thought you should do. Being a...

FORMING STATE LEVEL MOTORIZED RECREATION COUNCILS Following the national NAMRC formula By Del Albright, BRC Ambassador OVERVIEW: The solution to a positive future for motorized recreation lies in more unity among users. Statewide cooperation and coordination between different modalities...

Team Albright, Del & Stacie are Driving a special "freedom" tribute Jeep from Maine to Florida this spring. This Jeep tour is paying tribute to our veterans who gave us the freedoms we enjoy, like four-wheeling and exploring this great country of ours. We are PROUD to be part of the...

They Are Killing Our Access! How Egos and Personalities Could Be Our Downfall By Del Albright, BlueRibbon Ambassador Is your club ticked off at a neighboring club? Are you drifting away from your club because of the behavior of a few folks? Do you find yourself attending fewer club/group...

“Fight Tooth and Nail” tells the tale for me and a lot of other folks in the land use, off-road, backcountry world. Kurt Schneider, Land Use Editor for CRAWL Magazine won a caption contest hosted by Krawlzone TV with this cool saying and it is worth sharing and passing around. KrawlzoneTV...

PROVEN FORMULA TO PROTECT ACCESS AND SAVE TRAILS By Del Albright Saving (and sustaining) a trail system, protecting access and keeping our off-pavement motorsports alive and well boils down to a proven formula: Engineering, Education, Enlisting and Enforcement. In the simplest of terms, that...

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Don’t Be Cherry-Stemmed Out of Access Be In-touch; Informed; and Involved By Del Albright cherry-stem v. to extend a spur of unprotected non-wilderness land, especially a dead-end road or trail, through a protected wilderness area. Also as a noun and as the form cherrystem...

I'm helping produce a TV mini-series about the creation of the original Jeep -- the American Bantam. It's not just the story for me, it's the fact that 50% of the proceeds will benefit jeepers and veterans! Yes, 50% of whatever this mini-series can make will go to off road groups like BRC...

Are your memberships up to date? There is WAY too much going on with our access and trails for anyone to be waiting for a better time to join up -- everything that makes sense to you, starting with your national grassroots organization -- BRC. Eastern public lands, what little there are, are...

"Founding Father" BRC Congratulates Rubicon Trail By Del Albright Founding Trail Boss, FOTR Founding President, Rubicon Trail Foundation (RTF) In March of 2001 I worked with Lance Clifford to set up the first ever forum for one trail, the Rubicon Trail, on http://www.pirate4x4.com. Friends of...