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[vid] MJ Destinations: Red Mountain Mining Trails
Take a ride on the mining side! We all know Ouray (and all of Colorado) has a ton of mining sites, but there is a great mining trail with scenic views and lots of mining activity in the Red Mountain Mining area off CR 31. Located off the Million... Read more
W.E. Rock Grand Nationals Is Here!
Message from Big Rich Klein, CEO/President of WE Rock Events  The 2020 WE ROCK Grand Nationals will take place September 12th-13th, at the Three Peaks Recreational Area, in Cedar City Utah.Well, somehow we’ve made it to the Grand Nationals in 2020… This year has really been something else altogether,... Read more
[pics] Turning a 2WD 2007 JKU Into The ScatPack JKU
When you’re out on the trail, sometimes you see a rig that has something different, that really stands out and you have to go check it out.  For me, this happened at my last outing at Hollister OHV where I came across a gray Jeep JK that said “hey... Read more
MJ Destinations: The Abandoned Nemo Tunnel #24, Wartburg, Tennessee
Any Jeep adventure that involves eerie, dark old train tunnels off the beaten path should be on every Modern Jeeper’s list of things to do! As an “Adventurer” of the road trip variety, the look of “where does that go”, or the “lets pull over there and explore” is... Read more
8th Annual Great Smoky Mountain Jeep Invasion
The 8th annual Great Smoky Mountain Jeep Invasion in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, was crazy busy this year! If you didn’t make it you definitely missed out! And you should be planning for next year’s event NOW! Even though a few vendors opted to stay away, there was still plenty... Read more
[pics & vid] What Is The Gambler 500?
Have you ever heard of the Gambler Rally? How about HooptieX? Dubbed their Super Bowl of events, the Gambler 500 just completed their most recent and largest annual challenge.  A rally style “race” in which you build a vehicle that was probably never intended to compete in anything at... Read more
[pics & vid] MJ Destinations: Clear Lake, Silverton, Colorado
Since I have only been in Colorado for just shy of a year, I really haven’t had any time to meet many local Jeep club folks. We are always on the go, on the road, meeting Jeeples all over the country, so when the call came for an opportunity... Read more
MJ Destinations: Last Dollar Road Into Telluride
As a second step into the beauty of the San Juan Mountains and the surrounding area, we are going to take a drive from a road that begins near the top of Dallas Divide just above Ridgway, Colorado, called Last Dollar Road. A scenic alternative to the paved highway when... Read more
[pics & vid] Crawl Magazine’s Crawl The Con: Part 2
Let’s do this! The next morning it was up and at ‘em, time to get breakfast and coffee and head to the trail head. A small group of us headed to the Loon Lake spillway a bit a head of the bigger group so we could air down and... Read more
Ultra4 Racing News and 2021 Schedule!
RACING IS BACK! This morning Ultra4 Racing released the following: Just over 2 weeks ago we successfully held a US event with the 4WP Tear Down in Tennessee, an Ultra4 Europe event with the 2020 King of Britain, AND the first Ultra4 Australia event of the season. Thank you... Read more