Tacoma
Et incurventur ante non
- Location
- far enough away
kurt, assuming you are checking this Friday a.m,-- in to help w TL
just got home, will be in touch
just got home, will be in touch
planning noob run part 2
- Thread starter sixstringsteve
- Start date
If I'm not needed for this, please let me know.
- Location
- Sandy, Ut
I'm assuming you've been in contact with Marc, either way your 100% needed. I'm thinking the on-course work will be the most taxing as far as volunteers. Ideally you, Marc and Scott lay out some ground work for the course and the rest of us can help in the background as needed.
- Location
- Sandy, Ut
- Location
- Never Far From Nowhere
- Location
- Never Far From Nowhere
I'll be bringing the white board and markers. Anything else I need to bring?
- Location
- Bountiful, land of rocks
- Location
- Never Far From Nowhere
I'll see what I can do.
- Location
- Bountiful, land of rocks
- Location
- Never Far From Nowhere
Lemon rice as well?
- Location
- Bountiful, land of rocks
sixstringsteve
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- Location
- UT
We might need to have a pie-iron best recipe contest
sixstringsteve
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- Location
- UT
what did we like? What would we change?
I think the greatest benefit to the entire thing was Tacoma's piece on treadlightly. I think in the future we could have him do his entire 4 hour TL presentation the evening before.
I don't think my presentation on modifying your vehicle was needed much. I could trim it down to 15 min. And I don't want to focus on cost, I didn't want to give the impression that they need to spend buko bucks to have fun.
MMP was the perfect venue. Many thanks to John. I think it might be fun to end one on a little historic trail where we go check out a nearby ghost town.
I think the greatest benefit to the entire thing was Tacoma's piece on treadlightly. I think in the future we could have him do his entire 4 hour TL presentation the evening before.
I don't think my presentation on modifying your vehicle was needed much. I could trim it down to 15 min. And I don't want to focus on cost, I didn't want to give the impression that they need to spend buko bucks to have fun.
MMP was the perfect venue. Many thanks to John. I think it might be fun to end one on a little historic trail where we go check out a nearby ghost town.
sixstringsteve
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- Location
- UT
I also think we could do this quarterly and have rotating themes. For instance, if we did one in the winter (nov or so) we could focus on winter safety, winter recover, winter prep, etc.
I almost wonder if we could have geographical areas of interest. I really liked Kurt's training Friday night as well. I had a lot of people tell me afterwards that they wanted to explore utah but didn't know where to get started. That was an excellent presentation. I think we could build on that. Maybe we could invite a person or two to share a quick 5-min trail report to get noobs excited to get out there. I know that discussion made me want to go out and explore new areas I haven't been to.
I almost wonder if we could have geographical areas of interest. I really liked Kurt's training Friday night as well. I had a lot of people tell me afterwards that they wanted to explore utah but didn't know where to get started. That was an excellent presentation. I think we could build on that. Maybe we could invite a person or two to share a quick 5-min trail report to get noobs excited to get out there. I know that discussion made me want to go out and explore new areas I haven't been to.
sixstringsteve
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- Location
- UT
I also wonder if we want to compile this data somewhere. I would love to have a quick summary of each presentation to reference. In hindsight, I really should have filmed some of these presentations, they were really good.
Also, I think we should probably start the noobs off on a bit simpler area to drive offroad before putting them through the grey coned off zone. Don't get me wrong, they should go through there too, but I think a few were over their heads on the big steep hill tacoma was leading them up. Maybe they should have tried the gravel whoops first then worked their way over to tacoma after they got comfortable.
Also, I think we should probably start the noobs off on a bit simpler area to drive offroad before putting them through the grey coned off zone. Don't get me wrong, they should go through there too, but I think a few were over their heads on the big steep hill tacoma was leading them up. Maybe they should have tried the gravel whoops first then worked their way over to tacoma after they got comfortable.
sixstringsteve
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- Location
- UT
oh, and we definitely need some RME stickers and shirts at the next one. 
- Location
- Bountiful, land of rocks
That's a fair assessment. I was just trying to show how to choose a line through an obstacle that looks challenging, but if you think through it, you can usually find an "on ramp" through it. My experience is that if you get the passenger or drivers side tires a fairly easy path, the other side will just flex and follow along.
sixstringsteve
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- Location
- UT
I didn't mean to criticize Mark, you guys did a killer job. It was probably a big step for the guy in the blue jeep who had never put his rig in 4L before. In fact, I don't think he drove it.
THat was a great line though, and you guys did a killer job spotting the stock rigs through there.
THat was a great line though, and you guys did a killer job spotting the stock rigs through there.
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- Location
- Bountiful, land of rocks
I don't think Bart, Scott or myself will mind a little criticism. I know I've been called a lot worse
- Location
- SPANISH FORK, UTAH
I really like the idea of a quarterly training. It's spread out enough that it can be planned around and will give new people coming in a chance to get some instruction, ideas and also meet some new people.
I would love to do a winter wheeling course out in the desert somewhere, winter recovery would be and excellent thing for most anyone to know. Also a winter wheeling preparedness class.
I don't know how many others would like to continue doing this, but maybe we could meet for dinner again and talk about it.
I would love to do a winter wheeling course out in the desert somewhere, winter recovery would be and excellent thing for most anyone to know. Also a winter wheeling preparedness class.
I don't know how many others would like to continue doing this, but maybe we could meet for dinner again and talk about it.