Jeep Clubs?
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You make it back out here I'll have trails lined up and lunch packed for you.... may still get Mexican food
Yep we just either pee behind our Jeep or in the creek......... but never in a mud hole, especially if you are stuck in the said mud hole....
I joined an offroad club in my area and really like it. Trips of different types are organized throughout the year—some people like to drive easy trails and camp, some like to rock crawl. You can do what you like.
I enjoy rock crawling with others, but I also find that it’s really nice to camp with good people. My dog gets extra attention. I get help when I need it and I get to help others when I can.
It probably helps that everyone seems dedicated to avoid BS. We have little FB presence, which probably hurts attracting new members but helps not attracting jerks.
Clubs aren’t for everyone. But if you haven’t tried one yet, it costs little to check one out.
I enjoy rock crawling with others, but I also find that it’s really nice to camp with good people. My dog gets extra attention. I get help when I need it and I get to help others when I can.
It probably helps that everyone seems dedicated to avoid BS. We have little FB presence, which probably hurts attracting new members but helps not attracting jerks.
Clubs aren’t for everyone. But if you haven’t tried one yet, it costs little to check one out.
Yep we just either pee behind our Jeep or in the creek......... but never in a mud hole, especially if you are stuck in the said mud hole....
Why did you not tell me that when I was standing behind your jeep peeing in the water ......that thing was deep
(Richard Pryor line)
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Why did you not tell me that when I was standing behind your jeep peeing in the water ......that thing was deep
If I had known you were, I would have!!!!!
Especially when I thought i was going to nose dive in that nasty pit!!!!!
Yep we just either pee behind our Jeep or in the creek......... but never in a mud hole, especially if you are stuck in the said mud hole....
One of my frequent wheeling spots has a stream that flows into Clear Creek. Coors brewery happens to sit on Clear Creek, which is the source for Coors "Rocky Mountain spring water". Now, I know I just opened the door for many potential jokes having to do with peeing in the creek and Coors tasting the way it does, but I happen to love Coors Banquet beer and have consumed more than my share of it in my lifetime. For this reason, I never pee in that stream.
Peeing in the creek is economical because you can drink the same beer over and over...
deserteagle56
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We're all different. Me, when I camp I want to enjoy the solitude and quiet. No one else around for miles. I'm lucky enough to live in Nevada where solitude is a given in most locations.
My take on it is that if someone isn't intelligent enough to look for things outside of facebook, they're most likely an idiot you don't want to associate with anyway. I said that once on a different forum - and the FB apologists came swarming, and I mean SWARMING out of the woodwork!!
Your take on anything dealing with social media warped & isn't one I'd turn to for a unbiased assessment.
Finding the "right" Club is always the hard part. I tried out 3 or 4 clubs before I found the club I wanted to join.
There is a club over on the westside called Timber Tamers and they are a LARGE club so they have people like that who just want a easy drive but camping at the end of the day or others who want to rockcrawl.
It's why I always suggest that people search their area and find out what clubs are in your area and then go visit them.... When I'd tried starting a club in my area I got the comment from a lot that they disliked clubs and just had a group of friends who they went wheeling with... Can't force anyone to join so after 2 years I closed down the club.
Having a presence on FB or a club website help too IMO. My club has a FB page and we post runs & other info on it. ,I know we've had 2 walk ins who'd either found us on FB or the PNW4WDA website and came to a meeting. 1 came back the other didn't.
Every club is going to have different rules on what their membership requirements are.
@inkedrose I'm glad this thread helped you out some. Good luck.
AND.... the apologia begins.
Warped? Hardly. I recognize it as both the evil, and the pointlessness, that it is. Unbiased? You would be correct - I'm certainly not!
I don't have a problem with a club (or whatever) having a FB page, I have a problem when its their main form of comms - the FB page should drive traffic to their REAL page on the open Internet where the pertinent information is located. The club I was looking at *was* like that, but now they figured it out and have a real page that doesn't require swimming in the FB cesspool.
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Nope just pointing out your skewed/wrapped idea of what should or should not be. Just because you dislike social media doesn't mean others have to also. You've stated your apologia but then chastise others for theirs.
Nope you're VERY biased but at least you realize this.
Again your dislike rears it's head again.
If you don't have someone who knows how to build & maintain a website this doesn't work... As I said for an example my club uses FB for basic stuff. We used to have a webpage but then lost the person who knew how to maintain it. People have other jobs that pay their bills and most don't have time for stuff like that. So as much as you might dislike social media it's a good way to get information out there.
When we go wheeling I want to wheel, not sit around and talk. When a group of us from CO went to the first TJFest we warned everyone joining our group that we like to start early, move fast and had a list of trails and timeline that day we intended to keep. After the first trail, a handful of people dropped off from our group.
As long as it isn't exclusive. I'm hardly the only person who won't set foot on that site under any circumstances. If you're going to have a club - or whatever - having a "real" website is just part of 21st century reality. Not everyone is going to look for you on a 3rd party site, and I for one don't see the point of doing so anyway. "Super Swampers Jeep Klub" needs a website. They have a prez, VP, treasurer, etc - a web guy is needed as well. It doesn't take much effort these days - most web hosts have templates and software that you can use that actually do a pretty darn good job. It isn't like it was 20+ years ago when I created mine, it was - and is - all hand coded in a text editor; you don't have to do that crap anymore; a basic site can be setup in a matter of minutes by just about anybody - even my computer-phobic wife could do it. Then anyone can find SSJK's website with google and go to their site to find out when their next mall crawl is going to be.
Biased? Damn straight I am - those sites are, at BEST, full of teenaged ANGST and DRAMA because they were originally written/created for (and by) - wait for it- teenagers which establishes the baseline behavior. Indeed, facebook first came to my attention when it was a little thing limited to a few college campuses by a user acting like a teenager because I'm sure s/he was.
Everybody - and I mean EVERYBODY (including you) - knows the problems with these sites, yet many/most persist on using them anyway. Joined at the hip with their smartphone delivery system, this poisonous combination is destroying society. Goebbels wishes he had something 1/10th as effective for his propaganda. I don't like agreeing with fundamentalist Christians, considering them to be an evil of their own, but they're dead nuts right: Pure Evil (tm). But criticize or abstain - "The emperor has no clothes" - and the apologists come swarming out of the woodwork.
I’m the same way - when we ride dirt bikes the tank is full, bike checked and chain lubed , gear ready and goggles clean -
Fishing- my lures are tied on
Work- material staged, tools set up and we roll-
Yes I love to socialize - at the right time.
It annoys me when I'm trying to find a restaurant to eat and their website is Facebook. I then have to scroll through pictures to see if anyone took one of the menu. If I have other options I usually use them.
Unfortunately some really good places don't have their own websites.
My daughter wanted to start a Jeep Club, we call ourselves the flippin Jeepres cause we flipped my Jeep in Johnson Valley
Which is the problem all too often. Why would anybody look first on a 3rd party website for info about a company? Even if its something like "best restaurants dot com" which at least makes some sense. A tiny, hole in the wall Lebanese place near me understands this and has their own website. That's where I go when I want to find their phone number or operating hours (which are limited). If I didn't know about them, and wanted a Lebanese restaurant, I'd google "Lebanese restaurants in Melbourne Fl", not go to a 3rd party site of any kind, much less go to a poisonous "social media" website.
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