EJS no longer to be at Easter?

[Troysterr]

Smaller sanctioned events?

LOST KJ is planning a separate Moab event later in April, and I'm pretty sure the Cruiser club in SLC is doing the same. That's going to reduce the number of rigs at EJS by a few dozen.

Has RR4W considered offering to help these smaller clubs organize runs, and help enforce responsible off-roading?

My thought is that EJS could be moved (I really think it needs to be moved), and then there could be a dozen or so add'l RR4W-sponsored events that would be so small that the impact on the Moab community would be negligible.

Of course, these smaller groups don't really NEED to be sponsored by RR4W, but it might help maintain the club's clout, and I personally like the idea of a having a trail leader or tail gunner that really knows the trails.

 

[mbryson]

...........Has RR4W considered offering to help these smaller clubs organize runs, and help enforce responsible off-roading?............

I bet if each club contacted RR4W, that would be a lot better than expecting RR4W to know what clubs were even out there. Most local 'Moabites' are very welcoming and helpful........

 

[cruiseroutfit]

LOST KJ is planning a separate Moab event later in April, and I'm pretty sure the Cruiser club in SLC is doing the same. That's going to reduce the number of rigs at EJS by a few dozen.....

There are dozens of seperate club runs in moab each year. The TLCA run (Cruise Moab) nets ~200 Cruisers... I know Samurai, Bronco, Izuzu, Hummer, Rubicons, Explorers, etc.. have been doing their own runs... but this does little or nothing to help with the same problem that exists over EJS...

 

[chevtech]

Once upon a time, not all that long ago, Moab was a very big Spring Break destination. It kept getting worse until it reached the point where Hwy 128 was actually blocked by the parties happening along the river. The locals decided enough was enough & demanded that the BLM & Grand County Sheriff do something, and it was done, lots of cops were imported & a zero tolerance stance was adopted. Suddenly after a few weeks of overflowing jails & more cops than anyone could imagine the word got out that Moab wasn't a wide open party place for Spring Break any more, things settled down in the following years. Then rock crawling started becoming the cool thing to be into, the party crowds started reappearing in the spring as word got out about the huge party in Moab over Easter. The locals are again saying enough, more & more people who live here are sick & tired of not being able to get around in their own town for more than a week. RR4W is hearing the complaints of the locals & looking at disassociating themselves from the party crowd so that law enforcement can have a free hand in dealing with the unruly crowds. Like I said when I started this thread, I think moving the Jeep Safari to a later date is a good thing for both the town & the event. Yes there will be a certian element that shows up during Easter anyway, but now the law enforcement people can actually deal with them instead of just humoring them, now the community can feel like the tens of thousands of dollars it spends to import law enforcement personnel & rent the UHP helicopter will be spent for actual enforcement of the law & the community standards, and in the future we can look forward to having our community back & not having the necessity of spending that money for extra cops & the state's helicopter. We don't want to be Daytona Beach. Will vendors be put off by setting a regular date for the event (Easter varies by nearly a month from year to year), highly unlikely. They will still come to try to convince us to buy their newest goodies, unless they don't really want to sell them. We just had a big Harley Owners Group event here in Moab last weekend, most people barely noticed they were even here. Yet the motels & campgrounds were full. Same goes for the Rod Benders car show in late April, you can hardly find a campsite or room that weekend, yet the community is not disrupted by the event. Jeep Safari used to be the same way until about 7 or 8 years ago. If it's going to survive it needs to cause much less disruption to the everyday lives of the locals, the best way to do that is to change the event to a time when the majority of the hangers on are not able to just show up & party for a week or more. One way or another there are going to be changes in the event. It's best for everyone if the changes are voluntarily made by the event sponsor (RR4W) & participants rather than mandatory by the local population & land management agencies.

Werd.


Just change it.

Let it be a spring break destination that's fine, but disassociate it with respectable organized wheeling by changing the date of EJS. The combination of spring break, Daytona beach type partying and respectable organized club wheeling just leads to a bad stereotype that can easily be applied by just watching what goes on at the EJS as it currently is happening.

We are shooting ourselves in the foot every year we allow it to continue.

Vendors won't really care (about the re-scheduling) because they are there for the serious wheelers (with money) who are not represented well by the party hardy college students that just show up to get wasted and wheel there toyota corrollas . The real wheelers may actually come back out and show up (many refuse to go over EJS) once it is under control.

 

[Inyon98]

I bet if each club contacted RR4W, that would be a lot better than expecting RR4W to know what clubs were even out there. Most local 'Moabites' are very welcoming and helpful........

Very good idea. We would love to hear about some of the different clubs, please!

Best way to contact us is by mail:

Red Rock 4-Wheelers, Inc.
P.O. Box 1471
Moab, UT 84532-1471

Danielle
RR4W