Del Albright: TAPT Trip

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TAP TOUR FALL 2012 ANNOUNCED

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Del Albright, del@delalbright.com

TRAIL ACCESS PARTNERSHIP TOUR (TAPT) FALL 2012

Landuse Tour Open to the Public

Join Del & Stacie Albright on a landuse, trail-saving adventure!

Businesses, partners and off-road enthusiasts are invited to join Blue Ribbon Coalition’s Del & Stacie Albright for a fun convoy, dedicated to trail access awareness bringing customers and businesses together in the spirit of landuse. The tour begins with the annual meeting of the North American Motorized Recreation Council (NAMRC), and the SEMA show in Las Vegas, NV; next up is the 32^nd annual Hump n Bump in Logandale, NV, followed by a few days exploring Death Valley, ending with Panamint Valley Days hosted by the Calif. Assoc. of 4Wheel Drive Clubs!

The TAP Tour embodies key components of the BlueRibbon Coalition Mission -- to provide leadership in responsible recreation and empower members to secure, protect and expand recreational access.

You are invited to jump in for all or part of the tour. The Tour motto is: we will NOT be “tapped” out of our trail access! Our goal is to use this Tour to provide a forum for businesses, clubs, individuals and land use professionals to share a connection and exchange strategies for a positive future in off-road recreation, while building support for organized recreation.

Additional adventure stops and area orientations may be included as Tour planning continues. Businesses will be showcased and everyone involved will be supporting landuse just by being there (for all or part).

Support landuse; have fun; hang with off-road businesses and enjoy campfire stories that will be unequalled! Evening sessions will include landuse seminars, membership building motivational speeches, leadership tips, and vendor showcasing with tech tips as appropriate. Several off-road 4x4 clubs will be joining us as we travel along. In between the organized events, the rest of this Tour will be nothing too structured; just fun tagging along with each other and special invites to dinners, meetings, factory tours, trail cleanups and more. All we ask is that you support landuse and responsible trail access to be part of our Tour.

RSVP to Del Albright (del@delalbright.com) or on Facebook even if you only want to keep up with the fun and plans. Facebook page and RSVP can be done here: http://www.facebook.com/events/250626235039729/

TRAIL ACCESS TOUR ANNOUNCED FOR FALL 2012

BRINGING BUSINESSES AND OFF-ROADERS TOGETHER, ON THE TRAIL

The Trail Access Partnership (TAP) Tour is on for Fall 2012 and officially in the planning stages. TAP Tours bring businesses, off-roaders, activists and interested partners together on the road, on the trail and around the camp fires.

The Fall 2012 TAP Tour takes in the NAMRC meeting in Las Vegas during SEMA week; then SEMA, of course, followed by the Hump 'n Bump event nearby in Logandale, NV. From there we will convoy with businesses like Nemesis Industries (http://www.nem-ind.com) and T&T Customs (http://www.tntcustoms.com), along with traveling partners like Rick Pewe from Peteresen's 4Wheel & Off-Road magazine to Death Valley and the Cal4 event called Panamint Valley Days http://www.cal4wheel.com/events/panamint-valley-days

Learn more at our TAP Tour blog here: http://trailaccesstour.com/

You are welcome to join us in person or virtually. It's all about saving trails and keeping our sports alive.
Del

POISON SPYDER LARRY McRAE ON LANDUSE AND JOINING

POISON SPYDER LARRY MCRAE SPEAKS ON LANDUSE

Here is a short video about landuse from Larry McRae of Poison Spyder, Pat Brower of United Four Wheel Drive Associations, Jeff Blewett of Calif. Assoc. of 4Wheel Drive Clubs, and Del Albright, BlueRibbon Coalition. It's all about joining. Check this out:

FOUR-WHEELING RED ROCKS OF UTAH

WINTER ON THE ROCKS LIVES UP TO ITS NAME

Stacie Albright in her 1994 Land Cruiser (80 Series) getting it done on the red rocks of Sand Hollow State Park outside Hurricane, UT for Winter on the Rocks with the Utah folks and Utah 4 Wheel Drive Association.

This annual event is a real kick in the pants, but more importantly really brings awareness to landuse and access. We are proud to be here representing the BlueRibbon Coalition.

More on the TAP Tour Blog at http://www.trailaccesstour.com and go to BLOG.

TAP TOUR II STARTS TODAY

TRAIL ACCESS PARTNERSHIP TOUR (TAPT) II BEGINS

TAP Tour I included scenic stops like this red rock scene from Logandale, NV from the Hump 'n Bump event.

We set sail today on TAP Tour II headed for our first stop in St. George, UT for the Winter on the Rocks event with some great folks in the Utah four-wheeling community. Keep up with the adventures and trail-saving work at http://www.trailaccesstour.com

4-WHEEL & OFF-ROAD AND TAP TOUR

PETERSEN'S 4-WHEEL & OFF-ROAD KICKS IT FOR LANDUSE AND BLUERIBBON COALITION

Rick Pewe did an awesome write up about BRC and our recent TAP Tour in his March editorial. Lots of “love” for BRC and landuse.

Source Interlink has been supporting landuse for some time and this is another example of going out of the ordinary to help keep our trails open.

Petersen’s 4-Wheel and Off-Road:

http://www.4wheeloffroad.com/departments/4xforward/131_1203_march_2012_4xforward_editorial/index.html

Del

TAP TOUR TO HIT PHOENIX AZ and KOH

TRAIL ACCESS PARTNERSHIP TOUR (TAPT) II
HEADS TO UTAH, PHOENIX AND KOH

Traveling with the help of Nemesis Industries, T&T Customs and MetalCloak, the TAP Tour II will hit St. George, UT for Winter on the Rocks, then Phoenix, AZ for some landuse endeavors, and on to King of the Hammers.

The idea is to bring together businesses, off-roaders and landuse, all in the spirit of working together to save trails and keep our sports alive.

Winter on the Rocks supports the overall efforts to keep Utah free, open and available to us for responsible recreation under the Utah 4Wheel Drive Association.

We hope you'll find us; hang out; talk landuse; and help us help you keep YOUR trails open.

More on the TAP Tour can be found at:
http://www.trailaccesstour.com

We'll be hitting the road soon!!

Del & Stacie
Team Albright

Utah Land Use News and TAP Tour II

UTAH LANDUSE NEWS AND Winter on the Rocks UPDATE
with TAP Tour II

Brought to you by Del & Stacie Albright, Access Advocates, BlueRibbon Coalition
December 2, 2012

BlueRibbon Coalition will be represented by Del & Stacie Albright at “Winter on the Rocks” (WOTR) put on by the Utah 4x4 Club and Canyon Country 4x4 Club. BRC works closely with these clubs and others, as well as the Utah 4Wheel Drive Association. We are proud and honored to be part of this year’s activities and look forward to seeing a lot of familiar faces. Of course, we are all about saving trails and keeping the sport alive, so if you spend time jaw-jacking with us, you can figure that will be the topic of choice.

WOTR will be the first stop of our Trail Access Partnership Tour (TAPT) II. TAP Tours are where businesses join us on landuse adventures bringing off-road businesses together with customers, all in the spirit of saving trails and keep backcountry motorsports alive. Please find more on the TAP Tour here at http://www.trailaccesstour.com/.

We want to help raise more raffle prizes for the event so perhaps we can call on you to reach out (again) to any businesses you know of and send them this link and a plea for goodies. We will be doing the same from our end. Sponsor Packages: http://www.winterontherocks.com/?page_id=377

The event made a nice donation to BRC last year as part of our partnership in fighting for all trails in Utah. We hope to make that donation even bigger this year (with your help). THIS is the year to make the fight for Utah even bigger and badder than it’s even been. 2012 is election year and YOU KNOW what that means. We have to make changes at the highest levels in order to keep our freedoms alive and well in the backcountry.

Stacie and I are able to get to WOTR and be BRC this year because of the help of THREE awesome businesses who support us a lot in our landuse fights: T&T Customs, Nemesis Industries and MetalCloak. Please NOTE! These are three businesses with some market share competition for similar products, BUT they set that all aside to support landuse and access. Say thanks when you when you see them.
On the team,
Del & Stacie Albright

Trail Access Partnership Tour (TAPT) Update

TAP Tour

Be sure to see our latest update on the Trail Access Partnership Tour (TAPT) here at this link to the blog for the site: http://www.trailaccesstour.com/id3.html

Arizona has some amazing scenery and off-roading.
Del

Landuse News from Team Albright 11-9-11

This landuse news email comes to you from Del Albright, Recreation Advocate.

1. BLUERIBBON COALITION INVITED TO TESTIFY BEFORE CONGRESSIONAL SUBCOMMITTEE

POCATELLO, ID (November 9, 2011)--The BlueRibbon Coalition has been asked to testify before Congress regarding three of the most important issues affecting access and recreation on lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service.

Rob Bishop (UT), Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands has requested BRC's Executive Director Greg Mumm to provide testimony on an oversight hearing titled "Forest Service Regulatory Roadblocks to Productive Land Use and Recreation; Proposed Planning Rule, Special-use Permits and Travel Management. The hearing will be held Tuesday, November 15, 2011. Entire press release and more info here: http://www.sharetrails.org/news/2011/11/09/blueribbon-coalition-invited-testify-congressional-subcommittee

2. TRAIL ACCESS PARTNERSHIP TOUR (TAPT) holds workshop in Lake Havasu City, AZ, and get tours of desert trails, after stop over at Hump ‘n Bump event and tours of famous trails in Bullhead City, AZ area. TAPT gets nice donations for BlueRibbon Coalition -- $500 from Total Karnage and $2000 from Sidewinders 4Wheelers event. More here: http://www.trailaccesstour.com/id3.html

3. Yellowstone Park open to snowmobiles this winter thanks to BlueRibbon Coalition and others. More here: http://www.sharetrails.org/issues/yellowstone-update/15020

4. Team Albright new Book to be released March 2012 already getting businesses to advertise in support of getting it published. More here with new graphic from RTW Graphics – shielding our public lands from bureaucratic rain! Go here for more: http://delalbright.blogspot.com/2011/11/new-landuse-book-from-team-albright_03.html

## Del

TAP Tour (TAPT) Update September 25

AZ and NV Clubs and Friends,

Update on the Del & Stacie Albright Trail Access Partnership Tour (TAPT) to Southern AZ/NV in November.

JOIN US for the fun, the adventure and the landuse!

Our TAP Tour will take us from SEMA to Hump ‘n Bump in Logandale, NV, to Bullhead City and Lake Havasu City, AZ, then to Parker AZ for Desert Splash with the Parker 4Wheelers. PLEASE consider this an open invitation to join us physically or virtually. We’ll be blogging and posting up on Facebook and blogs our entire Tour, website here at http://www.trailaccesstour.com/

Rick Pewe from Petersen’s 4Wheel & Offroad will joining us on the Tour and covering the adventure. We are teasing Rick that this might be the Ultimate Adventure of Landuse. (smile). Denis Snow of Off Road Adventures (ORA) Magazine will also cover the story. ORA as you know is the magazine of 4Wheel Parts. Both these editors/publications are huge supporters of landuse and keeping our outdoor sports alive.

We will have some awesome business partners joining us along the way, and at the organized events: T&T Customs; Nemesis Industries; Trail-Gear; Daystar; Olympic4x4 Products; Raceline Wheels; GenRight Off Road; Dave’s Customs Unlimited; and others…

Our first real stop is to cruise SEMA most all week, the hit Hump ‘n Bump with the Vegas Valley 4Wheelers on Thursday night, to run their organized trails Friday and Saturday.

Sunday we will mosey down to Bullhead City, AZ, to stay a couple nights in the Mojave County Parks Davis Camp RV Park (hopefully space C2). Sunday and Monday nights are “open campfire” time where we can hook up, talk landuse, talk about saving your trails, learning more about AZ issues, whatever comes to mind. We are YOUR BlueRibbon Coalition reps, so bring us the “news” good and bad. Let’s work together to see what BRC can do more for you. We will be doing some local area sight-seeing and area orientation as well.

Tuesday afternoon we’ll pull into Lake Havasu City, AZ (looking for an RV park for the night) and have another “open campfire” where ever we are. Wednesday we’d like to spend time with local clubs and folks who can get away from work to tell us about the area and what BlueRibbon Coalition can do to keep this awesome area open.

Wednesday night we’ll pull into the La Paz County Park in Parker, AZ to prep and get ready for the Desert Splash with the Parker 4Wheelers the rest of the weekend.

At both Hump ‘n Bump and Desert Splash we will have a BRC booth, so please join us at these great events and support the clubs, as well as BRC.

Hump n’ Bump Registration and Information: http://www.vv4w.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&id=3&Itemid=4

Desert Splash Registration and Information: http://parker4wheelers.tripod.com/desertsplash.html

After Desert Splash, we will work our way home!

TO FOLLOW ON BLOGS: visit Del’s Blog at http://delalbright.blogspot.com

Stacie’s Blog: http://staciealbright.blogspot.com

Please email if you have any questions or suggestions. This will be epic!

Del & Stacie

www.delalbright.com

New Website for Trail Access Partnership Tour (TAPT)

Just launched today! New website for Trail Access Partnership Tour (TAPT), coming to Southern CA, NV and AZ this Fall to kick things off. Follow (literally or virtually) Del & Stacie Albright journey in convoys to help you save your trails.

It's all about freeom and access to our lands and waters. The entire tour will be devoted to keeping trails open, providing landuse help, offering campfire seminars and fun workshops, viewing awesome wheeling trails, and attending three big events to promote responsible recreation.

Events will be the SEMA show in Las Vegas, NV, then Hump 'n Bump in Logandale, NV, then Desert Splash in Parker, AZ.

Check it out at http://www.trailaccesstour.com/

Summer Land Use Trip Wrap Up

Our Summer Land Use Trip has come to a close after three weeks and nearly 3000 miles of travel in the motorhome towing the Jeep/trailer. We spoke to hordes of folks about saving trails and keeping our off-road sports alive, while having a bit of fun as well.

Covering parts of CA, NV, UT, WY, CO and AZ, we saw a lot of country, met with several clubs and off-roaders, gave 10-year old Jessica a ton of new experiences, and really relished the freedom that our forefathers and veterans have given us.

From beaver ponds to snow-capped mountains to high desert sage fields to the Colorado Rockies, it was a journey never to be forgotten.

We spent a week with our friends and partners at T&T Customs in Cheyenne, WY, getting our new Rock-Tek suspension, and then wheeled Salida, CO area with the All 4 Fun Event. Sweet!!!

Stay tuned for the next landuse and trail access adventure this Fall with our Trail Access Partnership Tour (TAPT), covering three events doing landuse work and helping clubs and groups save their trails.