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HAPPY BIRTHDAY STACIE ALBRIGHT

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY, STACIE ALBRIGHT!

Outdoors woman, volunteer, mother, friend, wifey, fisher lady, hunter, OHVer, worker bee, Elk, Door Dasher, Bartender, social networker, cook, home-maker, and more. Love you. Have a wonderful first day of spring birthday!

Love and Hugs, Hubby.

THE EPIC RUBICON TRAIL

Epic Trail, The Rubicon

From Native Americans to Gold Rush Days to Jamborees

By Del Albright, Sustainable Motorized Recreation Advocate

The "Gold Rush" of 1849 brought California to the national limelight and thousands of explorers and adventurers west to the famous gold fields. The era was wrought with exploring, trapping, gold mining, gun fights, and trading with Indians from the Pacific coast to the mountains. From those hearty souls, we now have the famous Rubicon Trail.

January 2013 Highlighted Landuse Issues/Links

from Team Albright

1. Johnson Valley, the Hammers – PLEASE sign the petition needing 1000 signatures a day, to request the White House to deny any request by the 29 Palms Marine Base to use land from Johnson Valley OHV area for base expansion. We love the Marines; but they don’t need our OHV area. Go here to sign: http://ultra4racing.com/featured/1000-signatures-a-day-needed-to-help-save-the-hammers/.

2. Oregon – comments needed on Oregon Dunes Designated Routes Project DEIS, right away. Best coastal dunes around are in jeopardy and need our help. Your letter can make a difference. BRC has a sample letter here: https://www.sharetrails.org/alerts/2013/01/15/oregon--comments-needed-on-oregon-dunes-10c-designated-routes-project-deis.

3. Wilderness Costs: The economic costs of Wilderness, from USA-All (Utah Shared Access Alliance) – what a negative impact on local communities and economies. http://www.environmentaltrends.org/single/article/the-economic-costs-of-wilderness.html.

4. Fishing: Recreational fishing a positive impact for local (and national) economies in this new report Sportfishing in America: An Economic Force for Conservation. http://muirnet.net/news-bytes/new-report-highlights-recreational-fishing-s-broad-economic-and-conservation-impact.

5. UFWDA: United Four Wheel Drive quarterly magazine, with tons of 4x4 access info, The Compass, is online here: http://www.u4wda.org/.

6. “Big Green Money:” see this note from BlueRibbon Coalition how the anti-OHV legal efforts have grant money available to them approaching 100 million bucks! See the net assets of some of the biggies in the anti-crowd, here: https://www.sharetrails.org/public-lands/anti-ohv-legal-efforts-money-talks.

More from Team Albright here at http://www.delalbright.com.

Thanks for your help,

Del & +Stacie Albright

KRAWLZONE GIVES ANIMATED VIDEO INTRO TO TEAM ALBRIGHT

Our good friend and landuse supporter, Nathan Riddle from KrawlZone created this video introduction for us to use in our landuse work and future videos. SWEET.

Learn more about KrawlZone at http;//http://www.krawlzone.tv/

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

Team Degenerates Win Team Challenge at Off Road Expo

Sunday Oct. 9th at the Pomona Lucas Oil Off-Road Expo, the Team Degenerates won the title, took first place, and walked away with awesome prizes at the Team Challenge for Best Prepared Trail Rig.

(photos by Steve Egbert)

Raceline Wheels donated the polished trophies and kicked in first place prize with a set of Allied Rock-A-Thon Steel Beadlocks.

John Stewart, Cal4 Natural Resources Consultant and owner of http://www.4x4wire.com/ served as my Chief Judge. Stacie Albright performed as reining champion team judge -- the Team Degenerates judge (again).

Greg Mulkey mc'd with me and was our host Sponsor, Raceline Wheels, for the Challenge for the third time.

The three teams this year were Team Degenerates (1st place): Team MetalCloak JK Adventure (2nd place); and Team Poly Performance (3rd place).

The Team Challenge is like a scavenger hunt on the rigs to see who can find a trail item the fastest and get it to the judge first. Sponsors included:

Title Sponsor: Raceline Wheels

Product and Gift Certificate Sponsors: Trail-Gear; MetalCloak; Tuffy Security Products; BDS Suspensions; Inner Air Locks; Dirt Tricks (Ironman Sprockets); Bushwacker; and Trasharoo.

Crowd Pleaser Goodies: sPOD, SpiderTrax; Trail-Gear; Off Road Evolution; Wheelers for Warriors; Torq Development (Super 14); ToyTec; and OutbackUSA.

Thanks to all the teams, judges and sponsors for a great time and a fun contest -- all about landuse, saving trails and making it fun in the process.
Del

Land Use Land Cruiser and Stacie Albright on the Rocks

"Elsie" the Land Use Land Cruiser hits the rocks testing out the new Trail-Gear bumpers and sliders, the Old Man Emu 2.5 inch tuned suspension and Warn winch on Goodyear MTR's. This is the Pardoe/Emgirant Trail up Highway 88 of N. CA.

The Story of T&T Customs, Cheyenne, WY

Bob and Mary started T&T Customs after Bob retired from the Air Force. A "fixit" kinda guy, who grew up working on stuff and making do with common sense and the school of hard knocks, Bob has an "eye" for creating mechanical marvels that work right!!! Here is Stacie interviewing Mary about the business:

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Summer Land Use Trip Day 6, T&T Customs

Getting a tour of T&T Customs, Cheyenne, WY, where the Jeep is going to undergo major changes in the engineering and ride.

The "boys" in the welding/fab side of things give Stacie the tour.

Mike, the mechanic magician, shows some T&T work being done on another rig in the shop. T&T suspension components are well-engineered and quality controlled. This takes you jeep to another level where you can brag that you "Go Equipped."

the in-shop powder coating is a system that recycles the coating and really gets the parts protected.

Can't help but have a little fun with the machines in the shop. Everywhere we looked, it was apparent the T&T folks are professional and caring about the products they make and install.

More on T&T Customs at http://www.tntcustoms.com/

Summer Land Use Trip Day 5, Wyoming

Wyoming takes pride in its wildlife. Here we are viewing a habitat area from a Rest Stop along I-80. Stac is working the spotting scope, looking for antelope and deer.

We saw a ton of antelope alongside the freeway all day today. Some with big horns too!!!

Can't say the whole drive across the bottom of Wyoming is one of our favorites, but we sure did enjoy the critters. AND we had very little wind.

Considering the winds sometime blow pretty regularly at 70MPH in this stretch of road....yikes.

This is the view we were enjoying from the Rest Stop.

The other thing we saw were miles of snow drift fences right along I-80. Found out these things also help keep patches of grass exposed for the winter herds of elk in the area so they have a source of browse. Cool.

Del

Summer Land Use Trip Day 3, Utah

Day 3 of our Summer Land Use Trip started off with memories still hanging on of Lamoille Canyon. Stacie got this beaver pond shot (which is up in the Ruby Mountains not far from Elko, NV). What a great place. We love the outback of Nevada and the many sights you can see with just a little exploring.

Elko, NV has one of the coolest museums full of natural and cultural history. It's always worth a stop, especially for young eyes and ears. Learning is always a part of our travels -- for all of us. Get this, they found the bones of a Mastadon right outside town, not that long ago (the find). He's been dead for 2 millions years. Wow.

It the 1920's there was a cow thief around Elko County (Crazy Tex) that made up and used "cow shoes" to disguise his cattle rustling habit. They never saw human foot prints after many rustlings over the years. No one could figure it out. He acquired quite a few steak dinners before ever getting caught. Oh yea, they finally got him and he did a little time. But everyone thought he was pretty inventive. He was later shotgunned to death when he was in the 70's by a fueding neighbor.

We are going to do some sightseeing around Salt Lake City next. Utah is one of our favorite states.

Summer Land Use Trip Day 1 and 2

Summer Land Use Trip Days 1 and 2

Our travels in the motorhome towing the jeep in the name of landuse and BlueRibbon Coalition include a little fun time and adventuring with our daughter, Jessica. We're headed to Wyoming and Colorado.

My latest BlueRibbon shirt includes our newest sponsors, T&T Customs from Cheyenne, WY who are rebuilding the Jeep Albright, bottom up, new suspension system and tons of work. And Magnum Ink who helped put the shirts together. We are really pleased to be displaying a new T&T Customs Rock Tek suspenion when we get to CO for All 4 Fun with the Mile Hi Jeep Club.

On the road trip we try to get a walk in every day and here we are with a road workout as our shadows tag along in the sage brush nearby.

Outside Elko, NV is Lamoille Canyon -- one of the most spectacular treasures in NV (in our thinking). We also stopped in downtown Elko to show Jessica the world's largest Polar Bear. It's at the Commerical Casino downtown. Whew...big boy.

Check out the desert Horned Toad we said hello to (then let go). Next stop Salt Lake City, UT.

Article: Off Pavement Patriotism

Our latest article: Off Pavement Patriotism; it's all about freedom. Get our take on why motorsports folks love what we do and why we do it. Get the inside scoop on what it means to be a "motorized" patriot.

Go here to read/download the article and share it with other patriots:
http://www.delalbright.com/Articles/off_pavement_patriotism.html

Moab Easter Jeep Safari Update

Stacie poses next to Red along the Rose Garden Hill trail where it seemed like we found another Grand Canyon as well as grand four-wheeling on a Red Rock 4Wheelers trail ride. Awesome stuff.

Rose Garden hill itself was a long climb over some rocky ledges that provided a good challenge, yet fun as heck. Everyone made it and no one broke!!! And my, my, the scenery was just spectacular.

Here Stac gets some trail time in with Red on the Rose Garden Trail.

Crawl Magazine is Back!

CRAWL magazine is back and I have a hard copy on my desk today. Depending on how you look at it, it's CRAWL2 (like second generation, or new generation). John Herrick is the publisher and Editor-in-Chief, with Kurt Schneider from Friends of Eldorado (FOE) as the Land Use Editor. AWESOME.

In this first (re) issue, BlueRibbon's membership incentive program is highlighted and the recent addition of Fordyce Trail to the BFGoodrich Tires Outstanding Trails program is showcased. Kurt does an awesome job explaining how hunters got turned out of public lands because of the Travel Management process (unbeknownst to them); and a nice piece about our hero and mentor, Dennis Mayer is featured with a writeup about the Hugs and Jugs Memorial Run (helping the famous Rubicon Trail).

(Rock crawling action photo by Stacie Albright)

Ian Johnson from TV is the tech editor so watch out for some cool stuff.

Of course there's plenty of hardcore offroad action (comps and tuff trails) in CRAWL, so find a copy, pour a cold one, and enjoy.

They are working on their website, but watch out for http://www.crawl2media.com/

Del

Reno Rocks After Party and Vegas to Reno Race, Sands Regency

Stac and I are recovering from the Reno Rocks After Party last night (smile). It was a blast. The Sands Regency put on the dog for the staff, helpers and Reno4x4.com folks around the pool at the Sands, then we moved into the Third Street Bar. Whew...

Back in June, Reno Rocks 4x4 had some serious W.E. Rock action, not to mention a great vendor show and a few parties.
Put it on your calendar for next year, Father's Day weekend in June, right here at the Sands Regency in Reno.

The Sands has a lot of golf action as well as plenty of casino stuff for everyone. It's also pet friendly which is cool to find when you travel with your little friends.

Photos courtesy of Stacie Albright (http://staciealbright.blogspot.com/)

Check out Terrible's Sands Regency Hotel and Casino here: http://www.sandsregency.com/

Today we will hopefully see the finish line of the Vegas to Reno Off Road Race, with another party tonight, and the awards ceremony back at the Sands around the pool Sunday at 10am.

My pics and photo essay here:
http://www.delalbright.net/Pages/vegas_reno.html
Del

Stacie Albright Speaks About Land Use at Rock Races

Stacie Albright Wins W.E. ROCK Photo Contest

Stacie won a rock crawling photo contest (with me as Runner Up winner). She was on the course with the drivers and all the action of this very hard core rock buggy event. Very cool. No, she didn’t win any money, but she can claim some (more) fame now. Cute.

Check out the pics and see Stacie’s WAY COOL shot of a buggy doing a nose dive.
http://werocklive.com/blog/?p=48

Visit her blog and website for more photos and stories.
Del

Poly Performance Tour -- Suspension Parts and More

Stac and I had a chance to tour the operation of Poly Performance in San Luis Obispo and wow, what a deal. Great stuff -- trail tuff and rugged. Nice folks too.

Check out my write up and product pics here: http://www.delalbright.com/Products/products_poly_performance.html